Chief Operating Officer (COO)

We have built something that works. Now we want to build more of it — and we are looking for the person who can help us do it. More House School is the leading independent school in the country for pupils who experience Specific Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorder and associated conditions. Over thirty years we have grown from 65 pupils to 515. We have been awarded the highest gradings in six successive Ofsted inspections over more than a decade, and were judged Exceptional under the new inspection framework in February 2026. Around 270 mainstream schools across the UK now come to us for help in becoming more inclusive. We are full. Demand for places exceeds what our campus can provide, and it has done for years. Nearly 70% of our pupils have their places funded by one of 35 local authorities under an EHCP, which gives us an unusually resilient income base — and a waiting list we cannot serve. That is why the next chapter of More House is about growth, and why we are recruiting a Chief Operating Officer with the range to lead it. What we want to doWe are in year two of a five-year strategy. Its central ambitions are: To extend our provision to girls. This is our foremost priority. There are many girls who would flourish in a More House education and who cannot currently access one, and we have committed publicly to changing that. To grow beyond the Frensham campus — by merger, acquisition, partnership or new site. We are actively evaluating opportunities, and we would expect to be the senior partner in any of them, protecting the model and the culture that make this school what it is. To continue developing our Frensham campus. Construction of a major new sports facility begins this summer, and the next phase of campus development is being planned now. To grow our outreach and consultancy work, and to keep influencing national policy on SEND and inclusion. The roleThe Chief Operating Officer is the most senior non-teaching post in the School, re