Deputy SENCO
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 2HN27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
17 September 2026 at 9am
Date listed
21 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
- SENCO (special educational needs coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2:2 + SENCo Allowance
Deputy SENCO job summary
We are seeking an organised, forward-thinking, and highly proactive Deputy SENCo to take on a key leadership role within our dynamic AEN department at The BRIT School.
Working in close partnership with the SENCo, the successful candidate will play a lead role in departmental planning, event execution, staff line management, AEN admissions, and access arrangements.
In this role, you will take the initiative to embed a proactive, welcoming culture across the department—leading on staff management, screening incoming applicants, supporting Access Arrangements testing, completing online applications for designated students, and planning high-profile departmental events (including parent/carer coffee mornings, open mornings, transition workshops, and assemblies). You will ensure our neurodivergent young creatives receive exceptional, tailored support to excel in both their academic and artistic disciplines.
The BRIT School is a unique institution offering specialist education in the arts and related technologies, alongside the full range of National Curriculum subjects. It is sponsored by the British Record Industry and has a unique relationship with the performing arts industries.
The BRIT School runs a 5 Term academic year with some school holidays falling at different times to the usual Local Authority school breaks. Please see our website for further details of our term dates.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- Organisation type
- Independent school, ages 14 to 19
- Size
- 1445 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
The BRIT School is the leading Performing and Creative Arts school in the UK and completely FREE to attend. It provides a unique education for over 1,400 pupils aged between 14 and 19 in the fields of music, film, digital design, community arts, visual arts and design, production and performing arts as well as a full academic programme of GCSEs and A Levels.
The BRIT School has produced many successful, singers, musicians, dancers, technicians, film-makers, performers, designers, games-makers, set-makers, community arts practitioners, DJs, actors, stuntmen, producers, authors and a whole cast more.
Former Students have so far won 12 BRIT Awards, 19 Grammys, 2 BAFTAS and 2 Oscars, a Laurence Olivier Award, a UK Theatre Award and 2 London Evening Standard Awards.
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