Inclusion Lead
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 4AA42 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours: 38.75 hours per week x 39 weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade: E £29,093 (£26,093 pro rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are offering a unique career opportunity as an Inclusion Lead. The purpose of this post is to lead on inclusion strategies to support vulnerable students and engage them with their learning, to deliver Early Intervention programmes to support the complex needs of vulnerable students swiftly and to take a lead on ensuring all pupils are safe and every day be proactive in monitoring and intervening with our vulnerable children. In additional, Inclusion Leads are responsible for putting alternative provision in place and ensuring it is appropriate, has a clear purpose and has a positive impact for students and the College.
Leaders provide effective support to develop teachers' subject and pedagogical knowledge. Staff are very positive about the support they receive from leaders. They are proud to work at the school. Those newest to teaching speak particularly highly of the support they receive. Leaders listen carefully to staff. This helps them manage staff well-being and workload.
Qualifications
- 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above or equivalent including Maths and English (or equivalent ie. O’Level, CSE Grade 1)
- Appropriate Level 3 qualifications
- Degree level qualification or equivalent
Experience
- Experience of working with students in a learning environment
- Successful experience of working with secondary age students
- Two years or more experience of working with young people
- Experience of working with parents/carers or adults in educational or community settings
- Experience of working with young people whose learning may have been impeded due to a range of circumstances
Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowledge and experience of working with SEND students
- Understanding of principles of learning processes and in particular barriers to learning
- Ability to teach social, emotional and behavioural skills
- Good understanding of inclusion
- Good understanding of differentiation
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to form strong relationships with students and staff
- Ability to liaise with outside agencies
- Ability to remain calm in situations of high tension
- Ability to manage own workload and work on own initiative
- Good organising, planning and prioritising skills
- Methodical with good attention to detail
- Good ICT skills
- Determination and resilience to embrace new developments to raise student attainment
- Ability to learn from experience
- Ability to raise student aspirations
Personal Attributes
- An aptitude for motivating young people
- Good cooperative, interpersonal and listening skills
- Evidence of being pro-active and of showing initiative
- Ability to work constructively as part of a team
- Personal integrity
- Reliability
- Openness, good humour, patience, enthusiasm and a sense of proportion
- Good health, attendance and punctuality
- Proactively seeks opportunities to increase job knowledge and understanding
- Values the diversity of individuals, adaptable approach to meet individual needs and effectively utilises the diversity of team members
- Works with others to resolve differences of opinion and resolve conflict
- Requires minimum supervision
- Takes responsibility for own and team actions
- Identifies and overcomes barriers and manage risks
- Takes quick and effective action
- Demonstrates focused implementation of role and responsibilities
What the school offers its staff
SJH is an excellent school that has improved immensely in recent years and, as a result, has been oversubscribed for the last five years. Our ethos is for our students to strive ‘to greater heights’. This ethos is built on a core set of values, which underpins everything that we do. These are Ambition, Endeavour and Respect.
We offer a state-of-the-art College facility which is equipped with an entirely new IT infrastructure, including touch screens and visualisers in every classroom. We pride ourselves on managing the workload of staff by offering a disruption free learning environment, only three assessment points throughout the year, no lesson observations, no lesson planners and no book marking.
Non-teaching professionals at Sir John Hunt are key to supporting the educational and personal development needs of our students. We pride ourselves on developing both support and teaching staff, with dedicated training days to support their continued professional development.
Staff benefits include; Employee Assistance Programme, Free Onsite gym facilities, standard NJC Terms and Conditions including enhanced sick pay of up to 26 weeks full pay (after qualifying period) and eligibility to be part of the Local Government pension scheme (current employer contribution rate of 18.1%).
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir John Hunt CSC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought for all shortlisted candidates and all shortlisted candidates will be requested to complete a questionnaire about any convictions or adult cautions that are unspent. Guidance will be given to those shortlisted.
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About Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 767 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir John Hunt Community Sports College website
- Email address
- sjh-recruitment@sjhcsc.co.uk
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is at the heart of its community. At our College every student is valued and nurtured. We know all of our students as individuals ensuring they are happy at school, feel safe, enjoy learning, are challenged and make the best of their talents.
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