Junior School Sendco

**Salary**:
Your salary will be pro-rated to either £28,547 - £31,519 pa (3 days) or £38,063 - £42,026 pa (4 days)

**Job type**:
Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
April 2025

24 February 2025

**Job overview**:
**The role**

South Hampstead High School has an excellent opportunity for an experienced and inclusive teacher to develop their leadership experience as Junior School SENDCo.

As SENDCo, you will lead and manage the provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the Junior School, ensuring the highest standards of support and inclusion in our learning needs provision.

Working closely with the leadership team, teachers, teaching assistants, parents, and external agencies, you will support the progress and well-being of girls with learning needs, providing them with the assistance they need to thrive.

You will also provide support to teaching staff, helping to raise their awareness and understanding of student needs and inclusive approaches to teaching and learning.

This is a part time role for either 3 or 4 days per week. Your salary will be pro-rated to either £28,547 - £31,519 pa (3 days) or £38,063 - £42,026 pa (4 days).

**About you**

We are looking for a personable and collaborative individual, with excellent organisational, communication and teamwork skills. You will need extensive knowledge of current SEND practices, policies, and interventions, along with experience of supporting pupils with SEND in a primary or junior school setting. Relevant qualifications in Special Educational Needs (e.g., NASENCO) or equivalent experience, will also be essential.

**About the School**

Working at South Hampstead is stimulating, challenging and fun. Located in leafy Hampstead, with the buzz of central London’s cultural life close at hand, the School is very well served by public transport and there are excellent local amenities nearby.

The School is part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools. We offer a variety of benefits, such as:

- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools

**Interviews will take place the week commencing 3rd March 2025.**

**The school may also conduct online searches (including publicly available social media searches) as part of our recruitment processes.**
- The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included._

**About**South Hampstead High School**:
**South Hampstead High School**
- 3 Maresfield Gardens
- London
- NW3 5SS
- United Kingdom

+44 20 7435 2899

South Hampstead is a forward-looking school, empowering girls to prepare for life and work in a rapidly changing world. Pupils are intelligent, inquisitive, energetic and engaging, making this an exciting and rewarding place to work. South Hampstead offers competitive salaries, generous employee benefits, and outstanding opportunities for professional development in a warm, supportive environment.

Excellent academic results place South Hampstead comfortably amongst the country’s top schools, but there is also great emphasis on bringing in the outside world, engaging with the local community, and fostering a culture of kindness and curiosity. Pupils benefit from a huge range of academic enrichment opportunities - lectures, competitions, social action initiatives, expeditions - that combine to ignite a genuine joy in learning and enabling pupils to thrive, both intellectually and personally.