Support mainstream schools to deliver outstanding inclusive practices and empower families across two ambitious boroughs.

In this role, we're all in to improve mainstream inclusion, ensuring children with special educational needs receive exceptional support and tailored provision across our local communities.

Working Style:

You'll be based in the Borough for five days a week, working in our schools and playing a key role in serving the local community. Whether you're working on the frontline or behind the scenes, you'll be part of a dedicated team making a real impact on residents' lives.

What you’ll be doing

Much of your week will be spent visiting mainstream nurseries, schools and colleges across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council to evaluate and improve SEND provision. On your visits, you will observe children and young people within their educational environments, review how Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) provision is being delivered, and meet directly with SENCOs, teachers, and support staff.

You will be curious about pupil progress, including having conversations with parents and carers, using these insights to model evidence-based strategies, suggest reasonable adjustments, and provide expert guidance on adaptive teaching. Following these observations, you will write clear, comprehensive reports at both an individual child and whole-setting level to enhance the core educational offer and inform strategic decision-making.

When you are not out in schools, you will analyse provision, collaborate with local authority colleagues, and keep up to date with the national education agenda to ensure full compliance with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice 2015. This includes contributing to working parties to improve procedures, monitoring the efficient deployment of resources. Throughout your duties, you will maintain client confidentiality, utilise case management systems consistently, and ensure safeguarding remains paramount by escalating any concerns in a timely, sensitive manner.

For further details, please review the Job Description and Person Specification

What you’ll bring

You must hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). You need substantial experience working directly with pupils who have special educational needs and disabilities, backed by an exceptional knowledge of quality first teaching or the early years framework. A sound understanding of cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches in SEND is required, alongside a thorough working knowledge of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice 2015. You must be highly capable of assessing educational environments, managing a diverse caseload independently, and writing high-quality professional reports.

Equally vital are your advanced interpersonal and communication skills, which enable you to conduct enabling conversations through coaching and mentoring to inspire mainstream school leaders. You need to be a credible professional who can foster collaborative, positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including children, parents, head teachers, and healthcare colleagues. You must bring negotiation and conflict resolution skills to successfully provide both support and professional challenge when educational standards are not high enough.

Finally, you will demonstrate a clear commitment to equal opportunities and actively champion our core organisational values of putting communities first, respect, integrity, and working together.

Why join us

At RBKC, we’re all in – investing in our people, our communities and our future.

You will receive a salary on the Teachers Main Pay Scale enhanced by a specialised SEN allowance, working on a term-time only basis over 39 weeks. This role offers you a unique path to step away from traditional classroom teaching and make a systemic impact across multiple educational settings, giving you significant professional autonomy.

You will join a small, highly collaborative, and supportive team sitting at the heart of an ambitious investment designed to strengthen inclusion across two London boroughs. We prioritise your continuous professional development, providing dedicated opportunities to expand your specialist knowledge, skills, and expertise in SEND leadership.

About us

Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places. Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.

As a competent and caring Council, we take pride in our work every day, ensuring our services are delivered with care and competence. We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.

In this role, your daily work directly drives our 'we're all in' employer brand across the local educational landscape. Advancing inclusive education requires a genuine 'get stuck in' mindset, whether you are collaborating with colleagues in the office, writing reports from home, or spending your days out in the field within mainstream classrooms. This post is designed for someone who thrives on driving long-term system change rather than operating within a single school.

You will join our service at a time when SEND is under an intense national focus, characterised by rising demand, increasing expectations from families, and clear financial pressures across the wider education system. Navigating situations where schools, families, and professionals hold differing views means it is not always smooth sailing, but every ounce of your effort pays off when a vulnerable learner thrives. By fully committing to this professional challenge, you turn complex, systemic educational barriers into profound opportunities for institutional growth and collective resilience across our communities.

Interview Details

Formal Interview W/C 10^th August 2026

Children and Adult’s Barred List DBS is required for the role

Ready to join us?

We’re all in – are you? If you share our values and have the skills to contribute, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We are committed to fair, transparent, and consistent pay practices.

New hires will normally start at the minimum of the pay scale. However, a higher starting salary may be negotiated where a candidate demonstrates exceptional skills, knowledge, or experience.

Employees receive annual salary increments until they reach the top of the pay scale, as well as any agreed cost of living pay awards.