Inclusion and Wellbeing Team Manager

The Iffley Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4DU

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  8 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £40,476.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 11: £40,476- £43,693 pro rate per annum Actual annual salary: £31,571 - £34, 080

Inclusion and Wellbeing Team Manager job summary

Are you highly skilled in building positive relationships with young people, to support them to thrive? Do you have a passion for supporting young people with SEND? Do you have experience of line managing and managing a team?

Iffley Academy is Oxfordshire’s largest special school, with 180 students on roll, catering for pupils in Key Stages 3,4 and 5 with a primary need of cognition and learning difficulties and associated needs: social emotional mental health difficulties and communication and interaction difficulties. We are a vibrant community which offers excellent teaching and learning and therapeutic care to our learners. The academy’s behaviour and relationship policy is based on the principles of Restorative Approaches, and respectful and positive relationships are demonstrated across the student body.

We are seeking a gifted practitioner who can inspire and motivate staff and pupils, exhibit excellence in management, and demonstrate skills to support the strategic development of our special academy. You will be skilled in managing pupils with special educational needs, and be an enthusiastic and organised individual who leads with integrity and passion. You will be a good team player and be able to contribute to our school, through excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Iffley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, Occupational Health check and a probationary period of 6 months. The Iffley Academy is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of ethnic backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our school community.

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 The Iffley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 18
• School size: 179 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Iffley Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-iffley-academy

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