About Us

 Part time - 3 to 5 days a week

Permanent

Required: September 2025 or October 2025 (if notice period required)

We are now seeking to appoint a SENCo who is committed to ensuring children are challenged to achieve their maximum potential. We want a SENCo who has passion, enthusiasm, alongside the skills and desire to develop and nurture every child in their care. They will deliver consistently excellent teaching and learning, to help all students to achieve excellent academic results.

Victoria Drive is an,” Outstanding” and inspiring Primary Pupil Referral Unit that prides itself on the highly effective working partnership with Wandsworth Primary Schools .It uses  a therapeutic, nurturing approach to support pupils who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMHD). The core objective of the work is to sustain very low levels of exclusion by promoting the inclusion of pupils and strengthening schools’ capacity to respond to pupils’ needs. 

 We actively promote a holistic and trauma informed approach to support our pupils to obtain meaningful outcomes, raise achievement levels and improve self-esteem.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The successful candidate will have:

• Qualified Teacher Status
• National Award for SEN Coordination
• Evidence of ongoing professional development; attendance on courses, INSET, action research, personal study etc. with clear impact indicators
• Commitment to continuing professional development as necessary to develop role
• Experience of successful leadership and management within a school
• Proven track record of achieving outstanding pupil progress for teams of children
• Ability to contribute to professional leadership and management of a staff team and contribute to the work of other teams to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all pupils across the school
• Experience of using data and data analysis to drive up standards
• Clear knowledge and experience in all issues relating to the safeguarding of children

Experience of teaching within a specialist Social, Emotional and Mental Health setting is not required.

Visits to the PRU are encouraged .Please contact the School Business Manager to book a visit.

An information pack, including a Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded below.

Alternatively, please contact Sarah Parmenter, School Business Manager by phone: 020 8780 2360, or by email: sparmenter@victoriapru.wandsworth.sch.uk 

Completed application should be returned to the school by either email or post.  

Closing date: 30 June 2025 (at noon)

Interviews: TBC

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is subject to a DBS check. 

CVs are not accepted.

Victoria Drive Primary Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)
 78 Victoria Drive

Southfields, London 

SW19 6HR

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils