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  • Job start date

    4 November 2024

  • Closing date

    20 September 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    4 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

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Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week term time only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Grade 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an enthusiastic and energetic person to join our friendly and forward thinking pastoral team as our Inclusion Officer. The role will involve actively supporting and maintaining the already high standards of behaviour and welfare in school. This includes undertaking on call duties and pastoral investigations. It will also involve managing day to day behaviour issues and supporting pupils to find resolutions. The role will often include liaising with parents/carers. This role will also involve providing some support to the school’s SENDCO, particularly in the management of SEND paperwork and other associated administrative tasks. In summary the role will include: •To help address any pastoral needs of pupils who require assistance in overcoming barriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential. •To work with pupils and in partnership with parents, appropriate staff and other agencies to bring about improved behaviour and attendance. •To promote positive attitudes from pupils and families towards education to ensure pupils benefit fully from the opportunities available to them. •To work with identified vulnerable pupils and any others requiring support. •Under the supervision of the school safeguarding lead, to manage, respond to and forward safeguarding concerns about the pupils of Kirkburton Middle School. •To support the SENDCo in the management of SEND plans through administration management. •To take on supervisory duties as determined by the school.

What the school offers its staff

What we can offer you…. • Annual salary increments plus inflation linked increases. • Automatic enrolment into a Teacher Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates. • Enhanced occupational benefits (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave). • Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to Health and Wellbeing services including, GP consultations, Private medial operations, Physiotherapy, Counselling and mindfulness, wellbeing clinics, nurse support services, chronic illness and cancer support, menopause support. • Flexible family friendly policies from day one. • Extensive CPD opportunities • Funding of a wide range of accredited training courses and apprenticeships. • A range of working patterns dependent upon the role. • For employees on all year-round contracts, a minimum of 28.5 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service) holiday entitlement. • Death in service benefit

Further details about the role

Visits are warmly welcomed and highly recommended. The closing date is Friday 20th September at 09.00am, with interviews planned for week commencing Monday 30th September, but could take place earlier if a suitable application is received. The expected start date for the successful candidate would be 4th November 2024. We reserve the right to close advertisements early. Advertisements will therefore close the day the decision has been taken to close the advertisement early. You are therefore advised to get your return you application as soon as possible. Completed applications should be emailed to recruitment@themast.co.uk We are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of all our staff with a dedicated wellbeing charter, mental health first aid trained colleagues and wellbeing advocates at each location.

Commitment to safeguarding

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding cuts through everything we do at school and the safety of our pupils is our top priority. There is a designated senior member of the Leadership Team who is responsible for referring and monitoring any child protection concerns. All members of staff will receive training in line with our child protection and other related policies.

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About Kirkburton Middle School

School type
Academy, ages 10 to 13
Education phase
View all Middlejobs
School size
502 pupils enrolled
Age range
10 to 13
Email address
gdean@themast.co.uk

KMS provides a welcoming and secure environment in which pupils enter as young children and leave as confident young adults, each developing at the rate that is right for them. We specialise in supporting, nurturing and guiding young children through this time in their lives – emotionally, socially and academically – in order that they are able to achieve well and feel safe.
We believe strongly in the importance of the principle of inclusion, the development of the whole child and meeting the needs of the individual. To this end we provide a broad and balanced curriculum together with an extensive range of enrichment and extra-curricular activities.

Arranging a visit to Kirkburton Middle School

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