SendCo
Role
Teaching Staff
School
Orchard Park Community Primary School, Ring Fort Road, Cambridge, Cambs, CB4 2GR
Headteacher
Miss S Harper
Tel
01223 438200
No. On Roll
189
Job Number
69020
Closing Date
25 Apr 2026
Advert
Our Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo) is a valuable and key member of our team, playing a complex and specialist role within our learning community. This role will give the successful candidate the privilege of working with our small, dedicated inclusion team and supporting our children with additional needs. Passion, drive, and determination are required to make a difference to our pupils. As well as an ability to lead on policy and practice, in conjunction with key stakeholders.
This important role will include overseeing targeted provision for children with additional needs, vulnerabilities, or barriers to learning. It will include the preparation of statutory paperwork, making appropriate referrals, working alongside professionals, supporting parents and families, as well as supporting school staff with quality first teaching and ensuring appropriate adaptations within the classroom are made.
We are a school that is:
Fully inclusive
Passionate about meeting the needs of all learners
Ambitious and aspirational
Able to make a difference
We are looking for someone who:
Is an inspirational and skilled classroom teacher and teacher of students with SEND
Champions inclusion and is passionate about supporting young people with identified SEND
Has a clear understanding of how young people with identified SEND can be supported to achieve in the mainstream classroom
Will embrace our highly supportive, professional approach within our brilliant community where staff, parents, and pupils work in close conjunction
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. We want you to see our school in action and we want to share our ambitions for the future and how you can help us with these. Please contact the school office to organise a visit. We welcome all questions, no matter how big or small.
Orchard Park Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check. Online checks will be made for all candidates.
