Key Purpose

• Lead the Trust-wide Strategy for SEND
• Raise standards in learning and attainment through co-ordinating the provision for children with Special Needs and Disability (SEND), monitoring standards and assessing progress across schools.
• Lead and direct a joined-up approach across all central service areas to deliver the highest levels of inclusion, attainment, achievement and attendance for all young people with SEND.

The Forge Brook Trust (MAT) is founded on the well-established collaboration of schools within the Broadway Family of Schools Cluster Groups, which meet regularly for school-to-school support. The MAT aims to create a unified yet autonomous family of schools that collectively strengthen and stabilise each other through shared expertise, collaboration, and resource efficiency. Its purpose is to enhance teaching and learning, raise attainment across all key stages, and provide students with greater life opportunities while ensuring each school retains its unique ethos and character. The MAT also seeks to build strong relationships with students and their families, promote diversity and inclusion, and foster a sense of shared responsibility for both successes and challenges.

Please apply by completing the application form which is available below. As part of the application, you are requested to submit a personal statement of no more than 1000 words stating clearly how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the criteria set out in the person specification. Applicants must complete all sections of the application form in full. Incomplete applications will not be considered for shortlisting.

Your completed application form, including your personal statement, should be sent to recruitment@theforgebrooktrust.co.uk

The deadline for applications is midday on 28 April 2025. We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications, therefore we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. Shortlisted candidates will be informed as soon as possible. References will be taken up shortly after shortlisting and prior to interview using the contact details supplied on your application form. Please ensure the contact details are correct to avoid any unnecessary delays.

Interviews will take place w/c 5 May 2025

The Forge Brook Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and you people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment.

The successful applicant will be required to meet all elements of Safer Recruitment and will be the subject of pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS Check, including Child Barring List, a medical question and satisfactory references.

It is a prerequisite that you familiarise yourself with the safeguarding policy and safer working practices policy and procedures of the school and follow them.

The Forge Brook Trust expects all employees and volunteers to be committed to the Trust’s Policies and ethos.

We welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity or religion. Joseph Leckie Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.