Director of Inclusion

Blessed Peter Snow Catholic Academy Trust, Dewsbury, WF13 4LL

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: C£80,000
• Additional allowances:

  C£80,000

Director of Inclusion job summary

The Role

The Director of Inclusion is a senior Leadership post, sitting on the Trust's Leadership Team and reporting directly to the CEO. The post holder will hold Trust-wide strategic and operational accountability for all inclusion-related functions, working across more than 40 schools once the merger is complete, and initially across BPS and BKCAT from the point of appointment.

A defining feature of this role is network leadership. The post holder will establish, chair and continuously develop Trust-wide professional networks for SENDCos, Designated Safeguarding Leads, Attendance Leads, Behaviour Leads, and Designated Teachers for Looked After Children. These networks are the engine room of inclusion improvement: they build professional capacity, create consistency, enable early identification of concerns and ensure no school faces complex challenges alone.

During the merger period, the post holder will play a critical role in aligning inclusion policy, practice and culture across BPS and BKCAT identifying shared strengths, harmonising approaches and preparing the ground for a unified Trust-wide inclusion framework. This is complex, important work, and it carries with it the privilege of helping to found a new organisation rooted in Catholic values and a genuine commitment to every child.

The Chiara Badano Catholic Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share and embody this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check with barred list check, and employment is subject to satisfactory completion of all pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), including identity verification, right to work in the UK, satisfactory references, and overseas checks where applicable.

In line with KCSIE, the Trust will conduct online searches on all shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence. All applicants must disclose any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings relevant to this post. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

As a Catholic Trust within the Diocese of Leeds, we are committed to recruiting staff who are supportive of our Catholic ethos, mission and values. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the communities we serve across West and North Yorkshire.

Closing date: Monday 6th July 2026, 12 noon

Interviews: w/c 13th July 2026

We strongly encourage candidates to arrange an informal conversation with our Chair prior to applying. Please contact Antonia Dorsey a-dorsey@bpstrust.org to arrange this.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Blessed Peter Snow Catholic Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/blessed-peter-snow-catholic-academy-trust

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