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Inclusion Manager

St James' Catholic High School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 6PZ

This job expired on 8 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  26 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time, Permanent 37 hours per week (term time only), Scale 5 £26,421 - £28,770 (pro rata) (Actual salary £22,598 - £24,608)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,598 - £24,608

What skills and experience we're looking for

School Mission Statement

St James’ Catholic High School aims to ensure everyone

within our school family achieves their full potential,

to encourage learning and development through faith,

and to strive for excellence.

Purpose

• Under an agreed system of supervision, to work with the

Assistant Headteacher, Heads of Year and Form Tutors

to address the needs of pupils who require support to

overcome barriers to learning

• To lead the Damascus room offering pupils the chance to

reflect on poor choices they have made

• Inspire and engage pupils in the vision for the school

• To promote positive behaviour management by modelling

and suggesting effective strategies in class and around

school, including break and lunchtimes

Pastoral Support

• Take a lead role in delivering pastoral support to pupils

through the Damascus room

• Provide advice to pupils relating to their social, health,

hygiene and emotional development needs

• Assist the teacher with the development and

implementation of individual Education/Behaviour/

Support/Mentoring plans

• Establish productive working relationships with pupils,

acting as a role model

• Arrange and develop 1:1 mentoring for pupils and provide

support for distressed pupils individually or in small groups

• Support the reintegration of those who have been absent

e.g. through long term illness, exclusion

• Provide information and advice to enable pupils to

make choices about their own learning/behaviour and

attendance and consequences of their actions

• Facilitate restorative conversations between pupils and/or

staff

• Challenge and motivate pupils, promote and reinforce self

esteem

• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress,

achievement, behaviour, attendance etc. Establish

constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging

information, facilitating their support for their child’s

attendance, access to learning and supporting home to

school and community links

• Take a lead role in the development, implementation

and monitoring of systems relating to attendance and

integration e.g. registration, truancy, pastoral systems etc.

• Be responsible for recording the SLT lunchtime detentions

• Deal as appropriate with administration e.g. dealing

with correspondence, compilation/analysis/reporting on

attendance, exclusions, making phone calls

• Investigate incidents occurring in a school context and

reporting the results of those investigations to the Form

Tutor, Head of Year or Assistant Headteacher as appropriate

• Updating the behaviour log on SIMS

• Update the Damascus data on Google sheets

Teaching and Learning Support

• Support pupils’ access to learning using appropriate

strategies and resources

• Work with other staff, including specialist staff and

professional agencies in planning, evaluating and adjusting

learning activities as appropriate

• Monitor and evaluate pupils’ responses and progress

against action plans through observation and planned

recording

• Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as

required to other staff on pupil’s achievement ensuring the

availability of appropriate evidence

• Manage record keeping systems and processes

• Take a key role in the development and implementation of

appropriate behaviour management strategies

• Actively seek support for pupils to broaden and enrich their

learning

School Support

• Comply with all policies and procedures within school

• Establish constructive relationships with staff and external

agencies to support achievement of pupils

• Attend and participate in meetings as directed, these

will include calendarised evening events e.g. parents and

curriculum evenings

• Participate in training and other learning activities as

required

• To undertake supervisory duties as directed by the Assistant

Headteacher

• To have an involvement in other activities assigned by the

Headteacher

School Ethos and Culture

• Help foster the spiritual development of pupils in

accordance with the school’s Mission Statement

• Ensure that the school’s vision is understood and clearly and

effectively articulated to all pupils

• Promote the school’s ethos and culture to the broader

community

Other Specific Duties

Many specific responsibilities will require collaborative

working with other team members which, as the Inclusion

Manager you will develop proactively

This post is subject to Enhanced DBS disclosure and basic

online searches. Whilst every effort has been made to

explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each

individual task may not be identified

The post holder will be expected to comply with all reasonable

requests from the Headteacher to undertake work of a similar

level that is not specified in their job description

What the school offers its staff

We are a good oversubscribed school (OFSTED 2022) located

in Stockport, South of Manchester. Our school is made up of

825 students and 100 staff. St James’ Catholic High School

is a thriving Catholic community that places children at

the centre of everything we do. The Diocese of Shrewsbury

judged our school to be an “Outstanding” Catholic school.

St James’ is a highly academic performing school:

• Impressive positive progress 8 scores for the previous

four years

• In 2024, 77% of students attained a Grade 4 or above in

both English & Mathematics (the equivalent to the old

Grade C) with 59% achieving a Grade 5 or above in both

English & Mathematics

• 87 grade 9s and 128 grade 8s were awarded to our

students in 2024, demonstrating exceptional attainment

across a wide range of subjects

• Exceptional results in open, Maths and English subjects

placing us in the top 20% of similar schools nationally

Our school is at the cutting edge of teaching and learning

and thrives on providing outstanding opportunities for the

young people we serve. All our staff work to provide our young

people with the skills, knowledge and understanding in order

to achieve their full potential.

Inspired by the example of St James, the purpose of our

school is ‘To educate and develop global Catholic citizens’.

Our three school values of Family, Faith and Excellence

are lived out every single day by staff, students and all

stakeholders.

The reputation of our school is exceptional within Stockport

and across the Shrewsbury Diocese for academic excellence,

impeccable pupil conduct and for providing outstanding

additional opportunities for our young people. The result is

that our young people develop into global Catholic citizens

who are proud to profess their faith and who make a positive

contribution to society.

At the root of our success is our St James’ community. This

is built on strong, positive relationships between all staff,

students and parents. Our parents support our school and

develop their children at home whilst our dedicated staff

are relentless in driving excellence by providing the best

educational experiences and opportunities for our students.

Underpinning this excellence are our unique values, Catholic

ethos and our mission. We are inspired and driven by the

Gospel where we are told: ‘With God all things are possible’

(Matthew 19:26).

Commitment to safeguarding

St James’ Catholic High School is an equal opportunity employer which is “Positive about Disabled People”. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in the workforce, who meet the person specification for the post

St James’ Catholic High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.

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About St James' Catholic High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 823 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St James' Catholic High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: headteacherpa@stjamescheadle.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-james-catholic-high-school-cheadle (opens in new tab)

The St James’ Catholic High School Mission:

To ensure everyone within our school family achieves their full potential, to encourage learning and development through faith, and to strive for excellence.

Applications are welcome regardless of the personal faith of the applicant, providing they are supportive of the school’s Catholic ethos.

St James’ Catholic High School is a popular and oversubscribed 11-16 mixed comprehensive Catholic High School which was judged by OFSTED to be a “Good school in April 2022, with “Outstanding” Outcomes for Pupils.

The Diocese of Shrewsbury judged our school to be an “Outstanding” Catholic school.

Arranging a visit to St James' Catholic High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headteacherpa@stjamescheadle.co.uk.

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