Deputy SENCO

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.

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.