Deputy SENDCo

Stopsley High School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 7UX

31 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2026

• Closing date

  10 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  8 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS & TLR2c (£8610)
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS & TLR2c (£8610)

Deputy SENDCo job summary

Required for an Easter 2026 start

Stopsley High School is seeking to appoint a highly ambitious and knowledgeable Deputy SENCO to join our dedicated SEND team. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and aspirational teacher, from either a primary or secondary background, who is ready to embrace the challenges and rewards of a leadership role.

The successful candidate will play a key role in our large, vibrant, and forward-looking SEND team, led by an experienced and dynamic SENDCO. Our team is passionate about adaptive teaching and committed to delivering an outstanding academic experience for students with SEND.

Stopsley High School has been on a rapid improvement journey, becoming an academy in September 2021 and joining the Middlesex Learning Trust. Our school has benefited from collaborative networking across the Trust, opportunities to share best practice, and access to innovative training. This hard work was recognised in our Ofsted inspection in September 2022, where we were graded “Good” in all five areas.

There are a multitude of benefits to working at Stopsley High School, with Middlesex Learning Trust to support. Benefits include but is not limited to:

• Access to fantastic facilities at Stopsley High School in our state of the art school built in 2016, including access to our fitness suite which is free for staff.

• A comprehensive New Staff Induction programme including a range of personalised CPD opportunities.

• A supportive staff body who enjoy working collaboratively.

• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing.

• Access to excellent teacher training provision via the SCITT within the Trust, based at The Compton School. SCITT has been graded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in June 2022.

• Career pathways and a strong history of promotion across the Trust.

• Access to national CPD programmes such as Ambition Institute NPQs to develop leadership expertise and specialisms.

• Opportunity to take part in our Talent Management Programme which has well-developed tiers to develop the skills of staff and prepare them for promotion within the Trust.

• Excellent public transport and road links to the rest of the UK and Europe.

Applications will be considered for interview as they are received, so early submission is recommended. We would be happy to welcome you for a tour of the school and to get more information before applying, if you would like to do this please contact recruitment@stopsleyhighschool.co.uk

Who are we?

Stopsley High School is part of Middlesex Learning Trust (MLT) - a Multi-Academy Trust consisting of 3 large secondary schools. The key purpose of MLT is to deliver the best possible education for our students, to enable them to maximise their progress, academically, socially and emotionally, ready to take their place in society as positive and successful adults. We are a modern, aspirational school that believes in the importance of unlocking each student’s potential. We achieve this by ensuring every student has the opportunity to grow and develop both inside and outside of the classroom.

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.

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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.

About Stopsley High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1074 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Stopsley High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stopsley-high-school-luton

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