LCI Teacher

SEND Support Service; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated educational support service in the East Midlands seeks a qualified Teacher to support children and young people with special needs. In this full-time role, you will guide school staff and pupils, manage caseloads, and provide comprehensive training across various schools. Successful candidates will have significant experience in Special Educational Needs and excellent interpersonal skills for collaboration with parents and professionals. Flexible working options and a generous benefits package are also offered, alongside a commitment to diversity in hiring.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Membership in Local Government Pension Scheme

Training and development opportunities

Flexible benefits including transport discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience in working with pupils with learning, communication, and interaction needs.
• Ability to advise on preparation and implementation of individual programs.
• Knowledge of SEND legislation and good practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage caseload to provide guidance and support to school staff and pupils.
• Facilitate training and support for teachers and assistants.
• Attend meetings and provide recommendations for educational assessments.

Skills

Experience in Special Educational Needs

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work collaboratively

Strong organizational skills

Education

Qualified Teacher Status

Job description

Full Time / 32.5 Per Week / Term Time / Fixed Term for 12 Months

Join our highly dedicated team to deliver quality teaching to children and young people who have special needs.

The Learning, Communication and Interaction team support and promote the education of pupils with additional needs, including specific learning difficulties, language and communication difficulties or autism, in Leicester city schools. The team is made of specialist teachers in the areas of specific learning difficulties, speech, language and communication and autism, teaching assistants and an interactive play specialist.

As the designated LCI team link Teacher for several Leicester city schools, you’ll manage your caseload to work and work with school staff and pupils to provide guidance including assessing, advising, monitoring, evaluating and supporting with some direct teaching.

Based at New Parks House you’ll join a team of specialist Teachers and Teaching Assistants, and you’ll facilitate the sharing of good practices and networking across Leicester city schools. Spending most of the time in schools supporting staff and pupils you’ll be required travel to various sites to provide training where needed.

What you’ll be doing

Following the SEND code of practise, you’ll work with school support teams to advise on the preparation and implementation of individual programmes and reviews of pupils’ progress. You’ll directly work with pupils to understand their learning and social needs. Making recommendations to the school, you’ll advise on support the needs of the individual and model how to implement your advice to ensure children on your caseload make progress in their areas of need. You’ll support the school SENCo around SEND processes and work collaboratively with a range of professionals, schools and families. Using your experience and knowledge of SEND, and proficient written and oral communication skills, you’ll attend meetings, write reports and provide recommendations for EHCP educational assessments as well as statutory reviews.

What you’ll need

As a Qualified Teacher, you’ll hold Qualified Teacher Status. You’ll have significant experience in Special Educational Needs including experience with pupils with learning, communication and interaction needs (including Specific Learning Difficulties, Language and Communication Difficulties or AUTISM). Being a successful teacher in mainstream or SEN schools you’ll have the ability to work across all phases and in a variety of types of schools. Having an informed understanding of the key issues for SEND including specific learning difficulties, language and communication difficulties and autism, you’ll understand the key issues for SEND and LCI on a local and national level as well as knowledge of legislation and good practice. Using your excellent interpersonal skills, you will be able to relate positively to pupils, parents, school staff teams and other professionals. Highly organised, you’ll be a team player and have a passion for teaching.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Kate Keaveny.

Assessment/interviews will take place on Friday 6th February 2026.

Safeguarding Statement

SEND Support Service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.