Strategic SENDCO - Leadership Team

Start date: January 2027 or earlier if available

Salary: L6 - L14 depending upon experience

Closing Date: Midday on Monday 22 June 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 29 June 2026

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a thriving and highly inclusive 11–18 Catholic school with a strong sense of community and shared purpose.

Our recent Ofsted inspection highlighted that:

• “Leaders have created a highly inclusive culture where pupils are well known, cared for and supported.”
• “Pupils feel safe, valued and happy in an incredibly welcoming environment.”
• “Staff are well trained to adapt teaching so all pupils can access an ambitious curriculum.”

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking school, contribute to whole-school improvement and work collaboratively with senior leaders to shape inclusive provision within the school.

We are now seeking to appoint an experienced and passionate leader to join our Senior Leadership Team. This is a senior leadership role with strategic responsibility for SEND, building on these strengths and driving the next phase of our development.

Working closely with the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher – Inclusion, you will lead and develop high-quality inclusive practice across the school, ensuring that all pupils – particularly those with additional needs are fully supported to achieve their potential. You will provide strategic direction, line management and professional development for SEND, while working with subject and pastoral leaders to embed quality-first class teaching for SEND learners across the curriculum.

The Role

The role combines strategic leadership and operational delivery, including oversight of EHCP’s admissions, funding, data, external agency partnerships and staff development. You will be a visible and influential leader, championing high expectations, strong pastoral support and inclusive teaching practices throughout the school.

This is a key strategic leadership position where you will:

• Lead and develop SEND provision across the school
• Drive inclusion and remove barriers to learning
• Ensure all pupils, particularly those with SEND, thrive academically and personally
• Contribute to whole-school leadership and improvement

What We Offer

• A school with a strong, inclusive ethos and clear values
• Pupils who are respectful, engaged and eager to learn
• A culture where staff feel supported and valued
• A leadership team committed to professional development and wellbeing
• A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
• The opportunity to join a thriving SENCO department.
• A welcoming staff culture, where we focus on supporting each other to grow and develop as teachers and aspiring leaders, with regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.
• An environment where pupils have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Pupils’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.
• Pupils who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
• Opportunities to regularly develop your own professional practice through in-house CPD.

We Are Looking for Someone Who:

• Is passionate about inclusion and improving life chances
• Has a strong track record of impact for pupils with SEND
• Can lead strategically and inspire others
• Is committed to working in partnership with families and external agencies

How to apply:

This role is full time and permanent. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, please see the job description, person specifications and application forms below.

Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by midday, Monday, 22 June 2026, with interviews to take place the week commencing, 29 June 2026.

Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in the education sector.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.

The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance

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Teacher of Technology

Start date: January 2027 or earlier if available

Salary: MPS / UPS

Closing Date: Midday on Monday 22 June 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 29 June 2026

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a vibrant, thriving and leading school in the local area.  (1333 on roll with a Sixth Form of 173) and our long history and excellent community links provide our students with exceptional opportunities. 

We are extremely proud of our 2026 Ofsted inspection, which highlights Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School as an inclusive and respectful community where pupils feel safe, valued and supported to succeed. Inspectors described the school as “an incredibly welcoming place where all pupils feel valued” and praised the “calm and respectful environment,” noting that pupils are “enthusiastic participants in lessons and school life,” benefiting from high expectations rooted in our values of respect, believe and achieve. The report also recognises the quality of teaching, stating that “teachers have a clear understanding of the skills and knowledge that pupils need” and that “staff use their subject knowledge well to adapt tasks so that all pupils… can participate in lessons.”

Inspectors highlighted our strong commitment to inclusion, noting that leaders have created “a highly inclusive culture where pupils are well known, cared for and supported,” alongside a well‑planned curriculum and a broad personal development programme that prepares pupils for life beyond school. Leadership was commended for maintaining strong standards in behaviour and attendance and for driving improvement, while our Catholic ethos continues to underpin the strong sense of community identified in both this inspection and our 2023 CSI report, which described the school’s valued “sense of family.”

Are you…

• A resilient and imaginative teacher who thrives on challenge?
• Talented and creative?
• An outstanding classroom teacher?
• Dedicated to providing high-quality education to improve the life chances of children?

We wish to appoint a passionate, tenacious and inspiring Art & Design and Technology teacher, who would relish the opportunity to work in a creative and aspirational department.

We offer you the opportunity to:   

• Develop your career in a state-of-the-art Art suite & selection of fully equipped Design and Technology workshops
• Join a forward thinking and talented team of staff
• Collaborate weekly with outstanding teachers and leaders 

• A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
• A welcoming staff culture, where we focus on supporting each other to grow and develop as teachers and aspiring leaders.
• An environment where pupils have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Pupils’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Strong’.
• Pupils who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
• Regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.
• Opportunities to regularly develop your own professional practice through in-house CPD.

How to apply:

This role is full time and permanent. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, please see the job description, person specifications and application forms below.

Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by midday, Monday, 22 June 2026, with interviews to take place the week commencing, 29 June 2026.

Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in the education sector.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.

The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance