Inclusion Support Practitioner

Shepherdswell Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 3NP

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Sep 25

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 21870

Inclusion Support Practitioner job summary

Your career #EMATters! We are currently recruiting for an Inclusion Support Practitioner who thinks beyond the classroom. In this vital role, you will support teachers in delivering high-quality learning by planning and delivering lessons, leading small group activities, and covering classes when needed. EMAT is an organisation that recognises and values its diverse workforce. Join us to be part of a team that champions innovation, inclusivity, and meaningful impact.

 

About EMAT

EMAT is an exciting, innovative, and growing organisation where we strive to do things differently, aligned with our core values and purpose: that every child deserves to be the best they can be. Our Trust was incorporated in July 2012 to establish, maintain, manage, and develop academies and free schools as world-class centres of excellence. We are a collaborative partnership that currently includes an all-through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. By working for our Trust, you’ll be able to take advantage of a wealth of professional development and support opportunities, as well as a range of employee benefits.

These include:

• Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
• Career and leadership opportunities within our growing family of schools.
• A confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• A corporate eye care plan.
• Flu jabs for all staff.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Access to health and wellbeing benefits, including an online GP.
• Access to an employee lifestyle savings platform.
• Generous family leave.

 

About the School

Shepherdswell is a growing academy in Milton Keynes, offering excellent learning and enrichment opportunities for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Shepherdswell is a two-form entry infant school on the Springfield Estate in Milton Keynes with capacity for 180 children across foundation stage and key stage one and a six-pupil place social communication department.

The children here at Shepherdswell, are eager to learn and are proud of their achievements, their school and community. Our staff are committed to their welfare and learning, and work as a team to ensure we all grow and achieve.

We are part of the East Midlands Academy Trust and are one of their family of schools. We work closely together and by working for our Trust, you’ll be able to take advantage of a wealth of professional development and support opportunities, as well as a range of employee benefits.

At Shepherdswell Academy we truly believe that the children are and should be at the centre of all we do. We have a strong inclusive ethos, we have a social communication department and preschool within our provision. Our dedicated staff encourage all our children to grow, making learning fun and challenging, supporting each other to achieve this, creating a real family feel.

Through our developing curriculum and caring ethos we ensure all our children get the learning opportunities and experiences they deserve to enable them to flourish.  We are an integral part of wider community and pride ourselves in developing positive working relationships with our parents and families, as well as the wider community. We offer a range of additional opportunities for all our children and families, including being a forest school.

 

General Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support the learning, development, and wellbeing of individual students, small groups, or whole classes.
• Deliver targeted interventions (e.g. Phonics, Literacy, SEMH, Metacognition) informed by educational research.
• Conduct assessments (Lucid, dyslexia, dyscalculia) to identify learning needs and guide support strategies.
• Track and evaluate student progress using platforms like Edukey, IEPs, and Pupil Passports.
• Supervise students during lunch, break, and wraparound care, promoting safety and positive behaviour.
• Foster strong relationships with students, families, and staff to support inclusive learning.
• Plan and deliver lessons under teacher direction, including providing cover when needed.
• Collaborate with SENDCo and contribute to intervention planning and review meetings.
• Promote emotional wellbeing, inclusion, and the academy's values and behaviour policies.
• Commit to ongoing professional development through research-informed practice.

 

For more information or an informal conversation, please contact Hannah.fajemiyo@central.emat.uk

 

A Note for Recruitment Agencies

We have a team of internal recruiters, and we advertise our vacancies to attract candidates and not agency suppliers. If we need agency assistance, then we will reach out to our trusted partners. Any speculative CVs we receive will not be accepted as an introduction.

EMAT reserves the right to withdraw this advert early if a suitable candidate is found.

EMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). References will be taken up before interviews are offered.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, or age.

EMAT encourage a “Speak Up” culture where colleagues are encouraged to raise any concerns relating to risk or wrongdoing. You will be responsible for ensuring that colleagues are supported where necessary to raise concerns without blame or recrimination and should pro-actively raise concerns should they come to your attention.

 

 

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.

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About Shepherdswell Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 136 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Shepherdswell Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shepherdswell-academy

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