SEND Advisor


Company:	Teaching Vacancies
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sheffield, S2 2RL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Sept 2026
Closing date:	7 Sept 2026

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Well organised, focussed on priorities, delegate effectively

Committed to promoting College values

Reflective, understands own limitations, self-confident

Adapts to change, pursues and is accepting of innovation

Solution focussed, manages expectation; challenges barriers to success; has high expectations

Understands when matters need to be referred to more senior staff

Treating people with dignity and respect at all times

Understands and is sensitive to social, ability, cultural and racial difference

Well organised, focussed on priorities, delegate effectively

Good understanding of student support in the context of the Post 16 sector

Experience of assessing need, 1:1 support, facilitation of small group work

Experience of collaborative working

What the college offers its staff

What we can offer you

As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of between£33,824- £38,028 per annum based upon a combination of the skills,knowledgeand experience that you can bring to the role.

Alongside your salary, your pension is one of the most valuable benefits of joining the College. TheLocalGovernmentPensionScheme (LGPS), administered locally bySYPA, provides financial security in retirement and support for your loved ones.

Our Full Benefits Package

• SYPA – with agenerous employer contribution

• Annual leave - 30 Days (222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays (59.2 hours)- this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period

• Health and wellbeingsupport,including:

• Employeeassistanceprogramme through Bupa

• Occupational Health through PAM

• Free eye tests for VDU users

• Freeparkingis available atthe majority ofour campuses

• Hybrid andflexibleworkingopportunities

• Continuousprofessional developmentopportunities

• Apeople‑focusedworking culturewhere you can grow and thrive

Further details about the role

About the Role

As a SEND Advisor you will work closely with curriculum areas to offer advice and support regarding students with SEND. You will work with and support curriculum staff to use their skills to adapt and develop materials which are accessible to learners with SEND and promote Quality First Teaching.

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Advisor will work closely with the transition and progression coordinator to ensure the needs of students with special educational needs and disabilities that is below the high needs threshold.

Main Responsibilities

• Advising and guiding curriculum and pastoral staff providing support to students with low and medium need. This will require regular communication with both the Personal Tutors and the Student Mentors

• Responsible for assessing the support requirements of low and medium need students by conducting an initial assessment and producing a Support Plan on Promonitor that will be shared with curriculum teams

• Referring complex medium and low needs cases to the Transition and Progression Coordinator team for consideration to be recategorized as high needs.

• Ensure the staff responsible for learning understand the students support plan and the interventions, differentiation and Quality First Teaching can be provided by the curriculum teams.

• Understand and share methods to promote student Independence through SMART target setting and will ensure targets are set by the curriculum area to support SEND students in their preparation for adulthood.

• Ensure the targets are tracked and met and any risk of a student falling behind made clear to the Transition and Progression Coordinator.

• Ensure that the college provides inclusive interventions in line with the SEND code of practice and allied Acts.

• Collate and store exam access arrangement evidence for low andmedium needsstudents. This will involve ensuring the evidence is available, a file note is complete and where necessary that a referral to theSpLDteam has taken place.

• Ensure thataExam Access Arrangements for high needs student in your cohort have the evidence for such arrangement and that the exams team is aware to make the application.

• Ensure the completion of all necessaryadditionalpaperwork is completed by the curriculum area and provide advice and guidance on the completion of Inclusive Risk Assessments. When required SEND advisors to capture disclosure of medical or medication needs and ensure this is referred to theappropriate internaland external agencies.

If you want to find out more about theroleplease contact Lynda Matthias, Lynda.Matthias@sheffcol.ac.uk

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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