Trust Lead for SEND

Required for January 2025 (or sooner)

Cheviot Learning Trust are seeking to appoint an outstanding and highly experienced SEND professional to lead the transformation of our SEND provision across our Trust. 

The key purpose of this position is to work closely with our SENCOs and Headteachers to provide expert support, guidance and challenge to ensure all schools and the Trust fulfil their statutory SEND responsibilities. The post holder will develop strong, strategic relationships with external agencies involved in SEND provision to ensure high quality external SEND support for our schools, children, young people and families. They will also ensure that the many current strengths of SEND provision in our schools are shared widely across the Trust and will also ensure that high quality CPD is in place for all staff involved in supporting children and young people with SEND. 

This new post offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious leader to combine their detailed knowledge and experience of SEND with our schools’ existing strengths in this area, to develop outstanding SEND provision for all children and young people within our Trust.    

Our purpose is to deliver excellent education for the benefit of all and our mission is to develop all our children and young people to have the opportunity to succeed. We are seeking a candidate who will join us in this mission with a particular emphasis on ensuring that such excellent educational opportunities are available to all children and young people with SEND within our schools.

This post will be based at our Central Team Office in Gosforth with regular travel required to all schools within the Trust across Northumberland.

We are committed to investing in our staff and you will receive a supportive induction programme and have access to high quality CPD. 

For more information please contact Dominique Flint, Trust HR Manager via email d.flint@cheviotlt.co.uk.

Application forms can be downloaded from the Trust website www.cheviotlearningtrust.co.uk/careers. The Trust website also contains full information about our Trust, with links to all of our schools’ websites.

Completed applications should be returned to Alice Witherow, CEO, via  d.flint@cheviotlt.co.uk.  Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

Closing Date: Friday 20th September 2024, 12 noon

Shortlisting: Monday 23rd September 2024

Interviews: Tuesday 1 October 2024

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.  If you are invited for interview, you will be required to disclose convictions that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview.  Certain spent convictions and cautions will be ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed.  Full details on protected convictions and information about which convictions must be declared during job applications can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. You will be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process.  If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.  This role will include Regulated Activities and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure is required for this post. 

Our Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found here.  The Trust Child Protection and Safeguarding Policies can be found on the Trust website. 

An online search will be carried out on shortlisted candidates, prior to interview.