Director Inclusion
Ellis Guilford School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG6 0HT8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 43 hours per week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £57,830 to £63,814
Pay scale
- L7- L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You:
We are looking for a talented and experienced individual to lead the overall inclusion and intervention strategy across the school, including the leading of colleagues involved in inclusion, supporting achievement of all children and developing positive behaviour and learning habits. To ensure that the schools’ inclusion and intervention offer, supports children who need additional help to overcome barriers to learning. This role is vital in supporting the holistic development of students with a variety of needs including SEMH, ensuring they have equal opportunities to succeed academically and socially. The post holder will oversee the school’s intervention offer, including internal and external interventions. This role will be line managed by the Vice Principal for Behaviour and Culture and will support children with a wide range of additional needs, including SEMH.
Our ideal candidate will
- Have a therapeutic background, with a trauma-informed specialism preferred.
- Have experience of secondary-aged children in any setting.
- Be resilient and relentless in the pursuit of ‘EGScellence’.
- Bring a ‘can do’ and ‘will do’ work ethic.
- Set high expectations and foster a culture of where pupils respect others and their physical surroundings.
- Have a strong commitment to our school values of integrity, ambition and equality.
Requirements:
To apply for the Director of Inclusion opportunity, you must hold:
- Qualifications and training in inclusion (ideally SENDCo qualified and/or SEMH qualification)
- Have a therapeutic background (a trauma-informed specialism preferred)
- Experience of leading and managing a team of staff
- Experience of working with secondary aged children in any setting
- Minimum of two years’ experience working with students with challenging behaviour
What the school offers its staff
About Our School:
The Ellis Guilford School is a growing and thriving, larger than average, Secondary School with a clear mission ‘to ensure that the children attending our school have a better chance of success than if they attended any other school’. We deliver a broad curriculum, including emphasis on the creative subjects, to support our children to become confident, independent and balanced individuals, allowing them to excel.
Graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2023, Ellis Guilford School is at an extremely exciting point in its development journey. We strive for ‘EGScellence’ in all that we do!
About the Inclusion/SEND Team
Inclusion at Ellis Guilford School spans our behaviour and SEND teams. This includes our teaching assistants, pastoral support officers, SENDCo and Assistant SENDCos and Alternative Provision staff.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:
CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
We have a number of specialist provisions in school including our Inclusion Centre and our INTEX provision. We will also introduce a newly created SEMH provision in September, alongside a Forest School provision.
Arguably, the star of our Inclusion team is our school dog Coco.
Our whole inclusion team work to support and promote an inclusive culture throughout the school and to put appropriate measures in place to enable all children to overcome barriers to learning. We prioritise professional development for our staff and make an ongoing commitment to this.
Our collaborative approach aims to enhance SEND provision, working closely with the pastoral and inclusion team to coordinate support across the school.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Creative Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks in line with Government Safer Recruitment guidelines.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ellis Guilford School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1277 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ellis Guilford School website
- Email address
- rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk
Ellis Guilford School is a mixed secondary school, catering for children between the ages of 11 and 16 years and located in Old Basford, Nottingham.
Since November 2018 we have been part of the Creative Education Trust. This has enabled the school to rigorously pursue rapid improvement for the children we teach.
The school boasts many facilities, and we strive to provide an inclusive and expansive education for all of the children in our care.
Sports fields including 5-a-side football pitches;
Multi-Use Games Area marked up for netball and football;
Astro Turf perfect for football;
Dance studio complete with sound system and mirrored wall;
Hall complete with a stage;
Interactive whiteboards in classrooms;
Modern and open-plan library with wide range of reading materials
Creative Education Trust inspires and enables young people to build successful lives on foundations of learning, resilience, and employability. We believe that a rewarding educational experience and the highest possible qualifications are the best way to ensure social mobility for young people.
Creative Education Trust is a growing multi-academy trust educating over 13,000 children in England. It was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial cities and coastal towns: areas of economic disadvantage and with a history of academic underachievement. We transform these schools by integrating a knowledge-rich curriculum with skills and creativity.
Creative Education Trust defines creativity as the ability to find connections between the things we know and turn these connections into new ideas and action. The academic arts and PE, practical subjects and life skills all need this creativity, and creativity is valued highly by employers. Our staff and expert advisers use imaginative methods for linking knowledge across subject boundaries, fostering personal development and resilience, and developing practical skills that prepare
students for their transition to adult life and employment.
Arranging a visit to Ellis Guilford School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk.
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