Innovation Manager
Thornhill Academy, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7NA11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May 2025
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,840.00 - £29,901.00 Monthly Grade 7 (NJC scale points 19 - 23)
Innovation Manager job summary
Innovation Manager
📍 Location: Thornhill Academy
💰 Salary: Grade 7, Actual salary £27,840 – £29,901
⏳ Contract: Permanent - 36 hours per week, Term Time plus 5 days
📅 Start Date: May 2025
Join a vibrant, inclusive, and forward-looking academy. Make a real difference.
Thornhill Academy, part of Consilium Academies, is seeking to appoint a passionate and dedicated Innovation Manager to join our dynamic pastoral and inclusion team.
Following our recent Ofsted inspection in May 2024, where we were proud to be graded 'Good', Thornhill Academy continues its rapid improvement journey. We are ambitious for the life chances of our students and committed to providing a high-quality education for every young person in our care.
The Role
As Innovation Manager, you will lead our internal inclusion provision, supporting students who are temporarily withdrawn from mainstream lessons to address behaviour choices that impact learning. You'll work intensively with students, teachers, families, and external agencies to remove barriers to learning, instil positive behaviour strategies, and reintegrate students successfully back into mainstream education.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for inclusion, behaviour management, and pastoral care to help shape a culture of success and support across the academy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the internal inclusion provision, ensuring it mirrors mainstream expectations.
- Work intensively with students to identify and address barriers to learning and behaviour.
- Develop and implement individual behaviour contracts and re-integration plans.
- Collaborate with teachers, parents/carers, SENCO, and external agencies to provide holistic support.
- Track, monitor, and report on student progress and outcomes.
- Contribute to the wider pastoral and inclusion strategy at Thornhill Academy.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with students, staff, and families.
- Is self-motivated, organised, and a positive role model.
- Has strong ICT, literacy and numeracy skills.
- Demonstrates resilience, flexibility, and a commitment to improving the life chances of young people.
- Has experience working with students, families, and external agencies (school or inclusion environment experience desirable).
- Understands and upholds safeguarding policies and procedures.
In return, we offer:
- A supportive, welcoming environment with a real focus on staff wellbeing.
- Excellent professional development opportunities through our Centre for Professional Learning.
- Generous staff benefits, including a Local Government Pension, enhanced contractual sick pay, an Employee Assistance Programme, and Vivup membership offering hundreds of discounts.
- A 36-hour working week for full-time support staff and 34 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- An exciting future as part of the Department for Education’s School Rebuilding Programme.
At Thornhill Academy, our diverse and vibrant community celebrates and embraces difference. We are proud to foster an environment where every student and staff member feels supported, included, and inspired to achieve their potential.
Apply now and be part of a journey where you can truly make a difference!
Applications and Information
For further information about the role please see attached recruitment pack including, job description and person specification.
If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a visit to Thornhill Academy, please contact kim.weller1@consilium-at.com
Closing date for applications is Friday 09nd May 2025
Interviews will take place on a date to be confirmed
Please ensure that within your application you provide the names, addresses, and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer.
We look forward to welcoming a new team member who shares our commitment to excellence in education!
Consilium Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are made subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
The Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.
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.
CVs are not accepted.
About Thornhill Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 596 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Thornhill Academy website
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Sunderland and Tyne and Wear