Inclusion Room Officer

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Leigh Academy Minster is now appointing an Inclusion Room Officer to become a part of our team. Joining us in September 2024, the successful candidate will be professional and dedicated to changing the life chances of young people by forging strong relationships based on high expectations with both the student and their parent/carer. Working directly within our exceptional pastoral team, we monitor behaviour, promote success and identify support for both the student and family.

You will have a calm, positive and resilient manner, approachable and warm whilst being able to maintain authority at all times.

If you would like to support young people and enjoy a challenge with a huge amount of job satisfaction, please apply.

Our successful candidate will play a pivotal role working across the academy to: 

• Establish our intent to embed behaviour as curriculum - designed to develop individual character through ongoing personal development and personal discipline.
• To supervise and coordinate the implementation of inclusion as part of the academy’s behaviour management system.
• To educate, practice and provide feedback and strategies on positive attitudes and social skills developing individual character within our culture of academic excellence.
• To promote the importance of inclusion not exclusion with students, parents and carers.
• Supervise and support young people within our reflection rooms, ensuring pupils are completing assigned work to a high standard and provide opportunities for pupils to reflect on and improve their behaviour and attitudes. 
• To monitor the impact of inclusion strategies and report back to the leadership team.

This is a permanent role, working 37 hours per week, term time only and offers an actual salary of £22,521 - £24,111 per annum (£26,873 - £28,770 full-time equivalent), based on experience.

If you have any queries on any aspect of the application process or need additional information please contact Rachel Cribben (Recruitment Advisor) on 01634 412 258 or rachel.cribben@latrust.org.uk.

Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st April 2024, our Trust comprises 32 geographically organised academies (16 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 20,000 students and employing 3,000 talented staff. Nearly 40% of our academies are judged outstanding overall by Ofsted, versus 15% nationally. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider.

Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

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Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.