Assistant Principal – Deep Support (SENDCo)

Excel Learning Trust, York, YO24 2RU

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  16 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £66,368 - £73,105
• Pay scale: L11 - L15

What skills and experience we're looking for

Excel Learning Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate, experienced, and inspirational leader, who is ready to make a profound impact on student wellbeing and achievement.

Our friendly, inclusive trust is seeking an exceptional Assistant Principal to work within Deep Support. This key role will add vital capacity to our leadership team and will be initially placed within one of our secondary schools.

Your expertise will ensure high-quality pastoral care, behaviour, welfare, and inclusive practice for all students and as SENDCo, you will oversee all aspects of SEND provision, ensuring full compliance and exceptional outcomes for some of our most vulnerable learners.

You will be an excellent classroom practitioner, with a proven track record of effective secondary school leadership, at either middle or senior leader level. You will have, or be working towards, a SENDCo qualification. Most importantly, you will have a firm commitment to equity and removing barriers to learning for all students.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer a supportive working environment, with colleagues who care deeply, are experts in their fields and who are passionate about what they do. We also offer a range of staff benefits, including access to a staff discount scheme, enrolment in the excellent Teachers’ Pension Scheme, 24/7 access to an employee assistance programme and a range of family friendly policies, as well as regular, high quality professional development.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Excel Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.

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About Excel Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: recruitment@elt.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-bank-multi-academy-trust

Arranging a visit to Excel Learning Trust

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