Inclusion Manager (Eden Room)

Post                           Inclusion Manager (Eden Room)                   

Salary                        Grade 6 – Points 11 to 19 (£27,269 to £31,067 Pro Rata)

                                   Term Time

Hours                        Monday – Friday - to be confirmed at interview

Required                   ASAP

We are seeking a talented Inclusion Manager to join our vibrant team.

This new role will focus on providing support and guidance to pupils by removing barriers to learning to promote effective participation, enhance individual learning, raise aspirations and enabling students to achieve their full potential.

The successful candidates will:

• Be excellent practitioners with the commitment and motivation to inspire pupils’ learning and development
• Be able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation through imaginative and differentiated activities and interventions which meet individual needs
• Have specific experience / interest in working with pupils with SEND
• Have the ability to foster good relationships with other staff, pupils, parents and the wider community
• Will have had experience of working with external agencies, completing paperwork, maintaining records, assessing and tracking progress
• Have experience of working with pupils with complex needs

Key responsibilities

Identifying Needs: Assessing and identifying the individual needs of students who may require additional support

Developing Strategies: Creating and implementing strategies/interventions and programs to facilitate inclusion within the classroom and school community

Collaboration: Working with teachers, support staff, and parents to ensure that appropriate accommodations and interventions are in place

Monitoring Progress: Regularly reviewing student progress and the effectiveness of inclusion strategies/interventions and adjusting as necessary

Resource Management: Overseeing the allocation of resources and support staff, ensuring that interventions are effectively implemented

Overall, the Inclusion Manager plays a crucial role in promoting an environment where every student can thrive academically and socially with a focus on pupils who have both SEND and behavioural needs.

St Cecilia’s is a popular and oversubscribed school on the edge of the Ribble Valley who has grown in numbers and reputation over the past few years.

Our vision is unified and shared. We are a caring Catholic school with high standards and expectations for all our pupils, rooted in the Gospel values that we model and build our lives upon.  

We believe all our pupils have the potential to discover, develop and rejoice in their God given talents and abilities, whilst answering to their faith as individuals, and actively responding to God’s call to work towards a common good. 

We promote forgiveness and encourage resilience, ensuring pupils do not give up and persist in the face of setbacks when they occur.   

Our school is a happy and safe place where pupils thrive. Pupils are proud to be part of our community and the community are proud of St Cecilia’s.

We are restless and always looking to improve, but we are not driven by ‘fads. Staff are supported to progress professionally through a comprehensive CPD programme that is founded in research.

We continuously strive to provide the highest standards in everything we do. We provide a positive learning environment that enables pupils to learn and teachers to do their job well, through a robust and well implemented behaviour recovery system.   

We try to ensure that CPD is driven by need and cohesive, not simply dictated from the top. If something is proven to work, then we will take the necessary time to embed it rather than shifting from one focus to the next. We provide a robust but low threat system for quality assuring T&L allowing staff the freedom to try new things and not being afraid to fail.      

The successful candidate will be joining a thriving oversubscribed school in all years, which was judged ‘Good’ by Ofsted in October 2019. We are currently going through an expansion project to accommodate our recently increased PAN (pupil admission number) to 120 per year group.

The Governors, Headteacher and Senior Leaders are committed to your professional learning with a culture of research and reading at the heart of what we do, including staff well-being and workload. The successful candidate will be supported via a well-developed, bespoke professional learning package appropriate to their individual needs and aspirations.  

In addition, we offer a comprehensive well-being package including free counselling, financial and wellbeing coaching, menopause, and nurse support, 24/7 GP services, stress coaching and physiotherapy as well as our weekly well-being treats. 

For an informal discussion, please contact Mrs B Clarke, School Business Manager on 07375 324 661 or via email to bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk

Visits to school are warmly welcomed.

Deadlines for Applications

Closing date             14th November  

Interviews                w/c 18th November 2024

All relevant documents are available to download from our school website.

Completed application forms using the Catholic Education Service form only should be returned to Mrs B Clarke, School Business Manager, St Cecilia’s RC High School, Chapel Hill, Longridge, Preston. PR3 2XA, preferably via email to bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk

Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.