Role: Lead SENDCo
Salary: L8 - L12 (£63,687 - £70,275 per annum)
Job type: Full-time, Permanent
Start date: ASAP
A Community Role with Real Influence - This is not a traditional SENDCo post.
We are seeking an experienced and values driven Lead SENDCo to take on a community led role across three Outwood academies: Ripon, Easingwold , Bydales and Normanby (Middlesbrough). With Ripon as your base, your time will be strategically split across all three schools, enabling you to shape SEND provision at both academy and community level.
This role is for someone who wants to make a wider impact, developing people, practice and provision.
At its heart, this role is about strengthening inclusive practice across a community of schools while maintaining operational SEND leadership in Outwood Academy Ripon.
Your work will focus on three core priorities:
You will operate as the community SEND leader across Ripon, Easingwold, Bydales and Normanby, ensuring strong collaboration, shared standards and a coherent SEND offer across very different contexts.
These schools are intentionally different — rural, market town, coastal village and neighbourhood — and this role exists to connect them, not standardise them. You will help each academy deliver inclusive excellence that meets its unique community needs while benefiting from shared expertise and support.
Developing SSPs and SEND practice across the schools
A central focus of the role is the development and consistent implementation of SSP’s (Student Support Plans) across the three academies.
This role places people development at its core. You will provide supportive line management, coaching and CPD for:
You will be a visible leader who builds confidence, capability and consistency, modelling best practice and creating space for others to grow into strong SEND leadership roles.
Based at Outwood Academy Ripon, you will also fulfil the role of the designated SENDCo for the academy and be a member of the Senior Leadership Team. You will be timetabled for five teaching lessons, ensuring your leadership remains rooted in classroom practice.
At Ripon, you will join a driven and collaborative leadership team united by our vision of Students First. Inclusion is not an add on here — it is fundamental to how we raise standards and transform lives.
Outwood Academy Ripon, Outwood Academy Easingwold, Outwood Academy Bydales and Outwood Academy Normanby form a connected community of secondary schools across North Yorkshire and Redcar & Cleveland.
This role offers a breadth of experience rarely found in one post:
Because these schools are at different points in their journey, the opportunity to make a meaningful impact is significant.
Why Join Outwood?
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is one of the largest and most established MATs in the country. Our scale allows us to invest heavily in:
You will also work closely with:
Above all, you will be part of a Trust that is unapologetically focused on Students First, Raising Standards and Transforming Lives.
Is This Role for You?
This role would suit an experienced SENDCo or Lead SENDCo who:
To organise a walk around or confidential conversation please get in touch with Laura Eddery, Executive Principal via email l.eddery@outwood.com
This role is subject to being closed early subject to suitable applications being received.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - WHAT DO WE OFFER AS AN EMPLOYER?
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:
Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:
Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing strategy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
We reserve the right to close advertisements early. Advertisements will therefore close at 12 noon, either on the advertised closing date, or the day the decision has been taken to close the advertisement early.
To find out more about working for Outwood and to read a message from our CEO please Click Here
Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) is an education charity and not-for-profit sponsor of primary, junior and secondary academies. We are a dynamic organisation, recognised nationally as one of the highest performing family of schools in the North of England, and we currently sponsor over 40 schools.
Our educational blueprint has been developed through leading and supporting schools over many years.
We have used this successful blueprint to sponsor academies and have a transformational effect on children’s life chances within very quick timescales.
We feel strongly that academies should enhance the education provision of the community they serve, in addition to driving up standards and playing a central role in regeneration. This is because we believe that improving the life chances of young people is essential to developing a strong local and national economy.
We are now comprised of over 40 schools who work together to ensure that all children, irrespective of their starting point, receive an excellent education. We pride ourselves on meeting the needs of children in our care, including the most vulnerable or challenging.
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
We’re incredibly proud of how far our kind, creative and talented teachers and support staff go to make life better for our pupils and their families. It’s why we have built such a leading reputation in education and taken failing schools to Ofsted-rated outstanding in a record amount of time.
We are committed to putting students first, raising standards and transforming lives.
