Vacancy Details
Vacancy Summary
As part of our continued growth and expansion, we are delighted to be recruiting the following role:
Assistant SENCo - Between Kirklees and Bradford as required
Salary: £28,507.28 - £33,497.32 (actual starting salary) - Dependant on relevant experience, 35.5 hours per week, term time plus 10 days
Vacancy Information
Do you believe in the transformative power of education?
Join our mission to inspire and empower young people, making a lasting impact on their lives.
At Pivot we believe learners deserve better. We are a specialist independent provision with sites in Kirklees, Wakefield, Bradford and Leeds. In our academies we teach and support learners from Key Stages 1 – 5 who have been excluded from school or those with an EHCP who require a specialist placement. Every day our teams do incredible work, making a huge difference to the lives of complex and challenging learners.
At Pivot Kirklees, our young people are the focus of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on creating a caring, happy and nurturing environment for them to learn, thrive and flourish. We have a variety of offers across Pivot Academy Kirklees, including, educational and therapeutic support for learners who have complex sensory, communication and executive function challenges who may be supported by an EHCP, our Pivot Outreach Programme (POP) which re-engages learners with social, emotional and mental health needs who may have been out of education for some time, and our specialist primary provision, designed to support young learners with special educational needs.
In addition, we offer a day 6 provision offering specialist support for KS3 & 4 learners who have been permanently excluded from mainstream school.
Working at Pivot will give you a real chance to change the lives of our learners and we truly believe you will find working here a rewarding experience.
We offer:
- A supportive and forward-thinking school culture
- Ongoing professional development and support for relevant qualifications
- Focus on wellbeing for all & access to employee assistance programmes
- Flexible working arrangements and early finish Fridays
- Further additional benefits, including blue light card entitlement, eye-test reimbursement, financial wellbeing service, work mobile phone and death in service benefit
Don’t miss this opportunity! You’ll find the full adverts and job descriptions for each role along with information on how to apply on our website: http://www.pivot-group.uk/current-vacancies
Complete an application form there and return it to the HR team at recruitment@pivot-group.co.uk
Closing Date: 29 June 2026
We are committed to safeguarding our young people and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check and appropriate referencing. During the shortlisting process, Pivot will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of its due diligence.