Deputy SENDCo
Fir Vale Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4 8GB16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
31 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 08:00 – 16:00 – Term time only plus 15 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE £35,000-£40,000 – Actual £32,523.08-£37,169.23
What skills and experience we're looking for
Fir Vale Academy is seeking to appoint a Deputy SENCO to join their established team. The academy is part of United Learning, a national group of schools and academies. Fir Vale Academy is an 11-16 secondary school located in the north of Sheffield. As part of United Learning our aim is to bring out ‘the Best in Everyone’ and we continuously strive to ensure that students and staff have every opportunity to succeed, with their potential developed to the utmost.
The successful post-holder will assist in managing the provision for pupils identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), including promoting high quality teaching, effective use of resources, and high standards of learning and achievement for all pupils. To also provide focused support to students with complex needs, ensuring no student is left behind.
The academy is part of United Learning, a national group of schools and academies. United Learning is one of the largest and most successful Trusts in the country who offers unrivalled Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and training, including opportunities for nationwide networking.
The city of Sheffield itself is a vibrant place to live and work with two universities and a range of entertainment opportunities alongside the access to the beautiful Peak District within a 20-minute commute. Quality of life is routinely ranked highly, and it is one of the greenest cities in Europe: Welcome to Sheffield
We are looking for someone who:
- Is reliable, highly motivated and self-driven
- Shares our moral purpose of ensuring that all our young people receive the best education possible in a supportive environment from people who care about them
- Someone who is resilient, dynamic, and passionate about improving the life chances of all children in our community but also displays humility and a reflective approach to improvement
- A team player with strong communication skills
We will offer you:
- Highly competitive salary
- Excellent facilities and resources
- Access to an outstanding professional development programme
- Polite, respectful and dedicated students who want to learn and fulfil their potential
- A respectful working environment
- Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development
- A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country
- Opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues in other schools within the Yorkshire cluster and across United Learning
- Excellent employee benefits which include a highly sought-after pension scheme with high employer contributions
- Access to training through the Apprenticeship Levy
- Westfield benefits platform
- We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance
If you possess these qualities and share the academy’s vision, then we will be delighted to hear from you. Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details.
To apply, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button at the top of the advert on our website using the following link to our vacancies page: https://www.firvale.com/our-school/vacancies/ and complete our online application form. Please note that CVs are not accepted. The closing date for this post is midnight Sunday 16 November 2025. Interviews will take place soon after.
If you would like to discuss this exciting opportunity, please contact hr@unitedlearningyorks.org.uk
United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an Enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.
What the school offers its staff
Fir Vale Academy is seeking to appoint a Deputy SENCO to join their established team. The academy is part of United Learning, a national group of schools and academies. Fir Vale Academy is an 11-16 secondary school located in the north of Sheffield. As part of United Learning our aim is to bring out ‘the Best in Everyone’ and we continuously strive to ensure that students and staff have every opportunity to succeed, with their potential developed to the utmost.
The successful post-holder will assist in managing the provision for pupils identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), including promoting high quality teaching, effective use of resources, and high standards of learning and achievement for all pupils. To also provide focused support to students with complex needs, ensuring no student is left behind.
The academy is part of United Learning, a national group of schools and academies. United Learning is one of the largest and most successful Trusts in the country who offers unrivalled Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and training, including opportunities for nationwide networking.
The city of Sheffield itself is a vibrant place to live and work with two universities and a range of entertainment opportunities alongside the access to the beautiful Peak District within a 20-minute commute. Quality of life is routinely ranked highly, and it is one of the greenest cities in Europe: Welcome to Sheffield
We are looking for someone who:
- Is reliable, highly motivated and self-driven
- Shares our moral purpose of ensuring that all our young people receive the best education possible in a supportive environment from people who care about them
- Someone who is resilient, dynamic, and passionate about improving the life chances of all children in our community but also displays humility and a reflective approach to improvement
- A team player with strong communication skills
We will offer you:
- Highly competitive salary
- Excellent facilities and resources
- Access to an outstanding professional development programme
- Polite, respectful and dedicated students who want to learn and fulfil their potential
- A respectful working environment
- Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development
- A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country
- Opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues in other schools within the Yorkshire cluster and across United Learning
- Excellent employee benefits which include a highly sought-after pension scheme with high employer contributions
- Access to training through the Apprenticeship Levy
- Westfield benefits platform
- We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance
If you possess these qualities and share the academy’s vision, then we will be delighted to hear from you. Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details.
To apply, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button at the top of the advert on our website using the following link to our vacancies page: https://www.firvale.com/our-school/vacancies/ and complete our online application form. Please note that CVs are not accepted. The closing date for this post is midnight Sunday 16 November 2025. Interviews will take place soon after.
If you would like to discuss this exciting opportunity, please contact hr@unitedlearningyorks.org.uk
United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an Enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.
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.
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About Fir Vale Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- Up to 1050 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fir Vale Academy website
- Email address
- hr@unitedlearningyorks.org.uk
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