SEN and Learning Specialist Lead (Barnstaple)

Are you passionate about creating inclusive learning environments and helping students achieve their potential? We're looking for an experienced and proactive SEN and Learning Specialist Lead to join our Learning Support team in Barnstaple. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a team of Learning Support Specialists, co-ordinate support for learners with additional needs, and play a key role in ensuring high-quality, student-centred provision across the College.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, manage and develop a cross-College team of Learning Support Specialists.
• Coordinate support for learners with SEND and EHCPs, ensuring high standards of service and compliance.
• Oversee learning support systems and processes, driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Monitor learner progress, engagement and support outcomes, adapting provision where needed.
• Deliver targeted teaching and support sessions on a one-to-one or small group basis.
• Work collaboratively with curriculum teams, external partners and the EHCP Office to ensure learners receive the support they need to succeed.

About you

We're looking for someone who's:

• Experienced in supporting learners with SEND, neurodiversity, mental health needs or other barriers to learning.
• Skilled in planning, delivering and reviewing effective learning support programmes.
• An excellent communicator with outstanding organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Confident leading and motivating teams while maintaining high standards of support.
• Knowledgeable about EHCP processes and inclusive learning practices.
• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) and holds, or is willing to work towards, a teaching qualification.

If you're committed to inclusion, passionate about supporting student success and ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page. If you have a passion for helping young people succeed, apply today and be part of a team that truly makes a difference!

How to Apply:

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Tuesday 18th August at midnight.

Interviews will be held in Barnstaple, date TBC.

No CVs or agencies please.

Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean 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, related exceptions and further information.