Deputy SENCo
Yate Academy, Yate, South Gloucestershire, BS37 4DX18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2027 (negotiable)
Closing date
29 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £34,069.00 - £52,835.00 Annually (FTE) TLR2a £3,759.12
Deputy SENCo job summary
Help Every Child Reach Their Potential
Do you believe that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of the challenges they may face?
At Yate Academy, we are looking for a passionate and knowledgeable Deputy SENCo to join our team and support our provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact across the school, working collaboratively with colleagues, parents and external professionals to ensure that every child feels valued, supported and empowered to achieve their very best.
About the Role
As Deputy SENCo, you will play a central role in promoting inclusion and ensuring that students with special educational needs and disabilities receive high-quality support throughout their educational journey. Working closely with pupils, families, staff and external agencies, you will support the coordination of effective provision, and statutory responsibilities as well as helping to remove barriers to learning so that every student can participate fully in school life and achieve success.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced teacher who is passionate about inclusion and committed to improving outcomes, wellbeing and life chances for children and young people with SEND.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Take shared responsibility for the care and welfare of SEND students to ensure that students achieve excellent academic, social and cultural outcomes.
- Under the direction of the SENCo collate and prepare information relating to assessments, statements and referrals to other agencies as required.
- Support teachers to develop excellent quality first teaching strategies so that all students engage proactively with their learning and therefore make excellent progress.
- Act as a role model and establish a clear framework for discipline in line with established policies, anticipate and manage behaviour in order to promote students self-control and independence to ensure good behaviour and respect for others is maintained.
- To work alongside the SENCo to ensure that all students on the graduated pathway have their needs met through excellent teaching and learning and evidence-based interventions and evaluating the impact on their progress towards meeting their identified outcomes
- To support the SENCo to ensure that all students with an EHC plan receive timely and appropriate support to ensure that their needs are fully understood and met.
- Be aware of, and support differences to ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and our Character offer.
- Demonstrate skills in, planning, monitoring, assessment and classroom management.
- Support the SENCo to monitor the impact of SEND interventions led by members of the SEND team.
- Support the SENCo to ensure that the SEND register accurately reflects the needs of students are accurately identified and that the information on Edukey is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice.
- To support the SENCo to ensure that all students with an identified SEND make successful transitions to their next stage of learning, including in-year admissions.
We're Looking For Someone Who:
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Willingness to undertake further CPD
- Evidence of wider professional development
- An outstanding classroom practitioner
- Knowledge of understanding of how children learn
- Knowledge of the concept of inclusive practice
- A good knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice
- Skilled at developing children’s self-esteem and motivation so that they become resilient independent learners
- Knowledge of strategies to inspire and improve outcomes for students
About Yate Academy
At Yate Academy, we have built our ethos on a strong set of core values which underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to give students at Yate Academy a better chance of success than if they attended any other school in the country.
Resilience, leadership and citizenship run through all aspects of school life.
Resilience
We set a high standard, we set the standards for others. We lead by example; we lead the way.
Leadership
We work hard. We never give up , we keep going and never give up.
Citizenship
We are kind, polite and honest. We make a positive impact on others. We make a positive contribution to our school community.
Why Join Greenshaw Learning Trust?
At Greenshaw Learning Trust, collaboration sits at the heart of everything we do. As part of our family of schools, you'll benefit from shared expertise, high-quality professional development and opportunities to grow your career across the Trust.
We offer our staff:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym discounts
- Free eye tests
- Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Being part of a supportive and ambitious organisation
If you share our commitment to helping every child thrive, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 29th November. We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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 Yate Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 804 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Yate Academy website
At Yate Academy, we have built our ethos on a strong set of core values which underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to give students at Yate Academy a better chance of success than if they attended any other school in the country.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
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