Director of Inclusion
Castle View Academy
Portsmouth
- £35,000 - £40,000 per year
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 06/01/2025
- Apply by:
- 16 December 2024
Job overview
This is a non-teaching position, supporting our most challenging and vulnerable students across the Academy. You will oversee our internal alternative provision, ensuring our students have the best possible provision to meet their needs, improve their attendance, reduce behaviour incidents and most importantly make great progress academically.
Strategic Leadership
· Act as the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) for the mainstream academy, working closely with the school’s safeguarding team to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students.
· Develop and implement the Academy’s inclusive education strategy, focusing on alternative provision students and alternative curriculums for mainstream students.
· Bring creative and innovative approaches to enhance engagement and learning opportunities for students facing complex barriers to education.
· Support the vision for inclusion practices that foster diversity, equity, and academic success.
· To liaise effectively with external agencies for key vulnerable students.
· To liaise with external providers including The Harbour School
Student Support and Wellbeing
· Work directly with a small case-load of students facing difficulties accessing education due to behavioural, emotional, or mental health challenges, developing personalised plans that facilitate their reintegration into mainstream education.
· Act as a key point of contact for students in alternative provisions, providing emotional and behavioural support.
· Collaborate with the SEND and Pastoral teams to create personalised support plans for students with complex needs, ensuring their academic, emotional, and social wellbeing.
· Work with students on a 1:1 basis or in small groups to provide interventions that address social, emotional, and behavioural challenges, helping them engage positively with their education.
· Oversee attendance actions for at risk students including attendance plans, liaison with LA attendance team, attendance at severely absent meetings and school attendance panels
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About Castle View Academy
- Castle View Academy
- Allaway Avenue, Paulsgrove, Portsmouth
- Hampshire
- PO6 4QP
- United Kingdom
Castle View Academy is a high performing and inclusive Academy where staff and students are high achievers, showing a collective pride in the Academy’s sustainable success. We demonstrate ‘excellence in all we do’ and strive to continuously improve as an organisation.
We are an Academy at the heart of our community, committed to raising the aspirations of our young people, their parents and the wider network that our Academy serves.
Reasons to choose Castle View Academy:
· We are the most improved secondary school in Portsmouth
· We achieved our best ever GCSE results in summer 2018
· As part of United Learning we have access to a wide range of exceptional opportunities
· Our students enjoy learning in a challenging, stimulation and disruption-free environment
· Our award winning and highly trained staff are committed to excellence in all we do
· Our dedicated Student Voice and Pastoral Teams ensure students feel safe, happy and listened to
· Our brand new building is equipped with cutting-edge technology in every classroom
· We give students hands-on experience through our state-of-the-art science labs, media and music suites and design technology facilities
· We are committed to delivering an Education with Character to help our students become confident, well-rounded and ambitious young adults
· We offer a large variety of extracurricular activities as well as a range of trips to destinations such as the Lake District, the Houses of Parliament and Disneyland.
Our Core Values:
Ambition – We are ambitious for all
Determination – We are determined to succeed and achieve ‘excellence in all we do’
Kindness – We are committed to recognising the ‘best in everyone’
We expect all members of our school community to value each other and show high degrees of respect, self control, hard work and commitment.
At the heart of our school is ‘The best in everyone':
A devotion to the best teaching, every lesson, every day;
A commitment to exceptional progress for all students from all starting points;
A desire to develop and cultivate the talent in all'
A relentless focus on 'disruption free' learning - enabling all young people to express themselves in a safe, secure and trusting environment.
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