Deputy Head of SEND Support

Salary (£39,669 - £42,010)

Joining us as Deputy Head of SEND Support, you will support the Head of SEND Support in delivering the college’s inclusion strategy while coordinating high-quality learning support across the college. You will play a key role in driving continuous improvement, ensuring that all learners with additional needs with or without an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) are fully supported to achieve their potential. You will lead on key areas including EHCP transition and specialist provision such as Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH), working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to maintain effective, inclusive and high-quality support.

As an experienced SEND professional, you will lead and coordinate the Learning Support Service, ensuring effective staff deployment, strong partnership working and compliance with the SEND Code of Practice and Education Inspection Framework. You will manage Learning Support and High Needs funding, ensuring value for money while shaping staffing arrangements that maximise learner outcomes and access to excellent learning support.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, collaborative and motivated individual with strong SEND experience and a secure understanding of EHCP processes, funding and legislation as well as support functions. With the leadership skills to oversee services and initiatives, develop staff and drive continuous improvement, you will ensure high-quality, inclusive support that enables learners with diverse needs to achieve their full potential.

Benefits: As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s as well, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work. Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites.

About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.

We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.

Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.

Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding!

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.