Inclusion Manager
St James' Catholic High School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 6PZ15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
17 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time 37 hours per week (term time only), Fixed Term, One Year, Scale 5 £28,598 - £31,022 (pro rata) (Actual salary £24,461 - £26,534)
Contract type
- Fixed term - One Year
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,598 - £31,022
What skills and experience we're looking for
School Mission Statement
St James’ Catholic High School aims to ensure everyonewithin 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
- To lead on the Behaviour Curriculum
- 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
- To run the SLT after school 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 collaborativeworking with other team members which, as the InclusionManager you will develop proactively.This post is subject to Enhanced DBS disclosure and basiconline searches. Whilst every effort has been made toexplain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, eachindividual task may not be identifiedThe post holder will be expected to comply with all reasonablerequests from the Headteacher to undertake work of a similarlevel that is not specified in their job description
What the school offers its staff
We are a good oversubscribed school (OFSTED 2022) locatedin Stockport, South of Manchester. Our school is made up of825 students and 100 staff. St James’ Catholic High Schoolis a thriving Catholic community that places children atthe centre of everything we do. The Diocese of Shrewsburyjudged our school to be an “Good” Catholic school.
St James’ is a highly academic performing school:
- In 2025, 73% of students attained a Grade 4 or above in both English & Mathematics (the equivalent to the old Grade C) with 46% achieving a Grade 5 or above in both English & Mathematics
- 82 grade 9s and 115 grade 8s were awarded to our students in 2025, 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 learningand thrives on providing outstanding opportunities for theyoung people we serve. All our staff work to provide our youngpeople with the skills, knowledge and understanding in orderto achieve their full potential.
Inspired by the example of St James, the purpose of ourschool is ‘To educate and develop global Catholic citizens’.Our three school values of Family, Faith and Excellenceare lived out every single day by staff, students and allstakeholders.
The reputation of our school is exceptional within Stockportand across the Shrewsbury Diocese for academic excellence,impeccable pupil conduct and for providing outstandingadditional opportunities for our young people. The result isthat our young people develop into global Catholic citizenswho are proud to profess their faith and who make a positivecontribution to society.
At the root of our success is our St James’ community. Thisis built on strong, positive relationships between all staff,students and parents. Our parents support our school anddevelop their children at home whilst our dedicated staffare relentless in driving excellence by providing the besteducational experiences and opportunities for our students.Underpinning this excellence are our unique values, Catholicethos and our mission. We are inspired and driven by theGospel where we are told: ‘With God all things are possible’
(Matthew 19:26).
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St James' Catholic High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained schools, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 824 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St James' Catholic High School website
- Email address
- c.griffiths-davies@stjamescheadle.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 482 6900
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 “Good” Catholic school.
Arranging a visit to St James' Catholic High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email c.griffiths-davies@stjamescheadle.co.uk.
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