Deputy SENCO

The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L8 3TF

21 days remaining to apply

• Earliest start date

  1 December 2026

• Latest start date

  22 February 2027

• Closing date

  9 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 October 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
  • SENCO (special educational needs coordinator)
  • Suitable for early career teachers (636)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Main Teacher’s Pay Scale: MPS / UPS depending on the successful candidate

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an aspiring leader with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, inclusive, and aspirational classroom practice / teaching in a secondary setting. Working closely alongside the SENCO, you will help lead, develop, and manage our SEND provision to ensure every student is supported to reach their full potential.

As a highly reflective practitioner, you will combine a sound knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice with practical, classroom-based strategies to support teachers’ practice. You will build and maintain positive relationships with parents and carers, with all aspects of your practice underpinned by our commitment to a relational approach to behavior.

There will be an expectation that you will teach some lessons. At Belvedere, we operate a two week, 50 hour timetable cycle. Over the course of this cycle, you will be expected to teach between 15-20 periods per cycle, depending on the need in the curriculum area in which you belong..

What the school offers its staff

In 2007, Belvedere was the first independent school to become an academy and is continuing the traditions and standards of its predecessor school. We have high expectations of all our students and we support them with excellent pastoral care. Our extensive Enrichment programme allows pupils to develop into well rounded individuals. In March 2025, Ofsted judged us Outstanding in Behaviour and Attitudes and in Personal Development. We were delighted that they recognised how our “ambitious” curriculum inspired our pupils to be, “ambitious for their futures” within an “inclusive” community in which pupils “can be themselves”.

Children of our staff have a higher priority in our Y7 admissions process - please see the Admissions Policy on our website or call the academy office for further details.

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

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Deputy SENCO - Job Description & Person Specification.pdf - 889 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Belvedere Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1182 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Belvedere Academy website
• Email address: hannah.evans@belvedereacademy.net
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-belvedere-academy

The Belvedere Academy was the first independent school to become an academy and is continuing the traditions and standards of its predecessor school. We are part of the Girls’ Day Schools Trust (GDST), the largest all girls multi-academy trust in the country. The GDST is at the cutting edge of shaping girls’ education and puts at its forefront the importance of girls being future changemakers.

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