Deputy SENDCO

Astrea Academy Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Flexible working

Teacher pension / LGPS enrollment

Job summary

Amplify Education's St Katherine's School in Bristol invites applications for a Deputy SENDCO to join the Inclusion team and support the SENDCO with statutory duties, particularly EHCP processes for Key Stage 3, including consults, annual reviews and funding. We value inclusion, offer flexible working, safeguarding commitment and access to professional development.

This role is full time (37 hours per week) during term time, with INSET days.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting SENDCO duties and EHCP processes.
• Background in inclusion and supporting pupils with needs.
• Experience in education settings (primary/secondary) helpful.

Responsibilities

• Support the SENDCO in fulfilling statutory duties, including EHCP processes.
• Assist with annual reviews and funding procurement.
• Contribute to an inclusive, supportive learning environment.

Skills

Reading & literacy

Mathematics support

Social & emotional development

Job description

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The job requirements are detailed below.

Job details

Contractual hours 37

Basis Full Time

Job type Support Staff - Educational

Location BristolNorth Somerset

Job category Support Role - Education/Behavioural Support

Amplify Education is a dynamic new multi-academy trust of 22 schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, formed through the thoughtful and planned merger of TiLA and CST. United by a shared vision, we are a bold voice for Bristol - committed to building belief in every young person, expanding opportunities, nurturing potential, and strengthening citizenship.

We are ambitious, reflective, and collaborative - driven to improve outcomes for young people while working together, learning from one another and continually strengthening our practice. If you are looking to make a real difference within a forward-thinking and supportive Trust, Amplify Education could be the place for you.

We invite you to join our team at St Katherine's School. St Katherine's is an oversubscribed and successful school with a strong sense of community, without a faith designation and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, beliefs, and religions. Diversity and inclusivity are at the heart of the St Katherine's community.

Our mission:

We are St Katherine's - a nurturing and inclusive community, united in the pursuit of excellence

The school was judged to be meeting the expected standard across all areas by Ofsted in March 2026. Inspectors recognised that:

• Inclusion is central to the school's ethos
• \"Leaders place inclusion at the heart of the school's work.\"
• SEND identification is strong
• Needs are identified promptly and accurately.
• Staff receive training and guidance to remove barriers to learning.
• Ambitious curriculum for all
• Pupils with SEND access the same ambitious curriculum as their peers across all key stages, including sixth form.
• Strong oversight
• Leaders monitor support carefully and evaluate whether interventions remain appropriate.
• Belonging and relationships
• Pupils feel known, supported and included.
• Strong pastoral and academic support helps pupils engage successfully.

We are located in a beautiful rural setting on the edge of Bristol. Our thriving, diverse community is founded on our core values of respect, responsibility and resilience; we actively encourage everyone within our community to 'live and breathe' our values every day. The school aims to create an environment where all students feel confident, secure and valued to help them perform at their best.

Our ambition is to achieve an average grade of 5.5 and 0.35+ VA in our sixth form: our work is focused on creating the conditions where every student, regardless of context, can achieve success.

We are committed to continuous professional learning and offer both internal and external leadership training including the NPQML and NPQSL programmes, leader profiling and shadowing opportunities. Coaching is embedded within our school to support and develop teaching alongside leadership and career progression for all staff. In addition, we actively promote opportunities for Trust wide working and collaboration across the trust is integral to our development.

The Opportunity

Deputy Sendco

Full time, 37 hours pw, term time (including INSET days)

Required asap

We are looking for a Deputy SENDCO to join our Inclusion team to assist the SENDCO in fulfilling the school's statutory SENDCO duties with a particular focus on assisting with duties surrounding the EHCP process for Key Stage 3 including consults, annual reviews and funding procurement and related duties.

About You

It would be an advantage to have experience in delivering and/or oversight of foundational knowledge in specialist / primary settings / secondary such as the following:

• Reading/literacy: phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension strategies and handwriting skills
• Mathematics: number sense, place value and basic calculation facts.
• Social and emotional development: communication, self-regulation, organisation and relationship skills.

An interest and experience in effectively supporting pupils with needs within the following categories will also be an advantage:

• SEMH and / or
• Cognition & Learning and / or
• Communication & Interaction and / or
• Physical & Sensory

More information about the Trust, School and Role

• To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
• Continuing Professional and Leadership development
• Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
• Free onsite parking.
• Flexible working fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
• All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher's Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Amplify Education are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are \"spent\" unless they are \"protected\" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.