Director of Inclusion
The Victory Primary School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 4QP14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week - Teacher contract - member of SLT
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership scale: L7 £59,681 – L12 £67,375
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
To provide strategic leadership of inclusion across the school, ensuring that all pupils, particularly those with SEND and EHCPs, receive high-quality, personalised support. The Director of Inclusion will oversee the Inclusion Centre, lead the SEND, pastoral and safeguarding teams, and work closely with external agencies and the Local Authority to ensure effective provision and outcomes for vulnerable learners.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership of Inclusion
- Develop and implement a whole-school inclusion strategy aligned with the school’s vision and national guidance.
- Lead on the strategic development of SEND provision, ensuring compliance with the SEND Code of Practice.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of inclusive practices, reporting regularly to SLT, Trust Leaders and governors.
- Champion inclusive values and ensure they are embedded in all aspects of school life.
SEND Leadership
- Oversee provision for pupils with SEND, including those with EHCPs, ensuring statutory requirements are met.
- Lead the effective deployment of Teaching Assistants (TAs), ensuring their skills are matched to pupil needs and that their impact is monitored.
- Ensure robust systems for assessing, planning, and reviewing SEND support.
- Liaise with the Local Authority regarding EHCPs, annual reviews, funding, and placements.
- Maintain accurate SEND records and ensure timely submission of documentation.
Inclusion Centre Oversight
- Provide strategic oversight of the Inclusion Centre, ensuring it meets the needs of pupils with complex SEND and/or SEMH needs.
- Line manage staff within the Inclusion Centre, ensuring high standards of care, curriculum access, and progress.
- Monitor pupil outcomes and transitions between the Centre and mainstream classes.
Pastoral, Safeguarding & Wellbeing
- Line manage the pastoral, safeguarding and SEND teams, ensuring coordinated support for vulnerable pupils.
- Lead professional development for staff in areas such as trauma-informed practice, restorative approaches, and inclusive pedagogy.
- Work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) to ensure safeguarding procedures are robust and inclusive.
- Promote mental health and wellbeing across the school, including access to therapeutic support.
External Liaison & Partnership Working
- Act as the key point of contact for external agencies including Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, CAMHS, and social care.
- Build strong relationships with families, ensuring they are active partners in their child’s education.
- Represent the school in multi-agency meetings and ensure follow-up actions are implemented effectively.
Curriculum & Teaching
- Support teachers in planning and delivering inclusive lessons that meet a range of needs.
- Ensure access arrangements are in place for assessments and statutory testing.
- Promote inclusive enrichment opportunities and ensure all pupils can participate fully in school life.
What the school offers its staff
As part of our commitment to staff, we offer excellent training, support, and professional development. Our school is part of United Learning, which means our teachers and staff benefit from three extra INSET days, guaranteed paid personal days, great training for your career, and more.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About The Victory Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 378 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Victory Primary School website
- Email address
- samanthasmith@thevictory.portsmouth.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02392001160
The Victory Primary School is a happy and dynamic school that is striving to offer the very best education for the children, whilst embedding the school values of kindness, respect, determination, teamwork and excellence. If you are looking for an exciting, challenging and highly rewarding teaching role, this is the job for you!
The Victory Primary School is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools, aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialist, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resources, helping to simply work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
Arranging a visit to The Victory Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email samanthasmith@thevictory.portsmouth.sch.uk.
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