Momentum Project – Teacher (Trauma‑Informed Intervention Lead)

Bridge Academy, All-through Alternative Provision, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5DE

23 days remaining to apply

Start date details
Asap
Closing date
11 April 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
19 March 2026

Job details

Job role: Teacher
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS + potential enhancement (Aligned to Stephenson (MK) Trust pay structure)
Additional allowances: MPS/UPS + potential enhancement (Aligned to Stephenson (MK) Trust pay structure)

Momentum Project – Teacher (Trauma‑Informed Intervention Lead) job summary

This role provides a unique opportunity to work differently — focusing on early intervention, building strong relationships with young people, and helping them overcome barriers that may otherwise lead to exclusion or placement breakdown.

As part of the Momentum team, you will play a key role in helping pupils reconnect with learning, rebuild confidence, and successfully remain within mainstream education.

About the Momentum Project

The Momentum Project has been developed to provide early, targeted support for pupils who are at risk of disengaging from mainstream education. The aim is to intervene early, strengthen the support around the child, and prevent challenges escalating to the point where a young person reaches crisis or requires more specialist provision.

Through a combination of high-quality teaching, mentoring, and targeted interventions, the Momentum team works with pupils who may be experiencing behavioural, emotional, or engagement difficulties that impact their ability to succeed within the classroom.

A key feature of the Momentum Project is its multi-agency approach. The team works closely with schools, families, and external professionals to build a coordinated network of support around each child. This ensures that the right strategies, guidance, and interventions are in place to help pupils overcome barriers and sustain their place in mainstream education.

Ultimately, the Momentum Project focuses on maintaining pupils’ connection to learning, strengthening resilience, and ensuring that difficulties are addressed early before they escalate into crisis.

Role Overview

As a Teacher within the Momentum Team, you will deliver targeted teaching and intervention programmes designed to re-engage pupils with learning and strengthen the skills needed for success in mainstream classrooms.

You will work with small groups and individual pupils, using adaptive teaching approaches and relational practice to support engagement, confidence, and academic progress. Alongside this, you will collaborate with schools, mentors, families, and external professionals to develop strategies that help pupils successfully sustain their place within mainstream education.

This role requires a teacher who is passionate about inclusion, early intervention, and supporting vulnerable learners, and who believes that strong relationships, high expectations, and the right support can change the trajectory of a young person’s education.

Location: Milton Keynes - various Momentum sites across the Quadrants

Contract: Full-time / Term time only

Start date: Asap

Closing date: 10 April 2026

Interviews: Week commencing 20 April 2026

About the Momentum Project

The SMKT Momentum Project is a pioneering early‑intervention initiative forming part of Stephenson (MK) Trust’s city-wide strategy to support children and young people who are beginning to show signs of escalating behaviour or underlying unmet need.

Working across Milton Keynes schools, the project delivers early, trauma‑informed support to prevent crisis, exclusion and direction to Alternative Provision. The aim is to build a trauma‑informed culture across MK and help pupils thrive long before challenges reach crisis point.

The Role

Plan and deliver personalised learning sessions for pupils at risk of disengagement or exclusion.

Use trauma‑informed approaches and the IAS/BAS frameworks to understand behaviour as communication.

Work with small groups and individuals to support emotional regulation, learning readiness and social development.

Provide high‑quality feedback to schools, including strategies to support reintegration and early identification of need.

Work alongside multi-agency colleagues within Tier 2 intervention.

Maintain strong, positive relationships with pupils, families and schools.

Contribute to developing a trauma‑informed culture across the city.

Who We’re Looking For

Positive, nurturing and emotionally intelligent.

Calm under pressure, with excellent de‑escalation skills.

Skilled at building trusting relationships with pupils.

Experienced in personalised teaching and able to adapt content creatively.

Committed to trauma‑informed practice.

Comfortable working independently across different school sites.

Motivated to improve outcomes for children and young people across Milton Keynes.

Why Join Momentum?

Be part of a ground-breaking early-intervention model shaping outcomes across Milton Keynes.

Work in a supportive, positive team where wellbeing is prioritised.

Receive high‑quality CPD, including training in trauma-informed practice.

Experience varied, rewarding work across multiple settings.

Help to reduce exclusions, improve attendance and strengthen multi-agency practice city‑wide.

Make a lasting difference to pupils’ life chances.

How to Apply

For information or an informal visit, contact HR: hr@stephensonacademy.org.uk

Please note: Qualification certificates and identification documents will be required at interview. CVs will not be accepted. An enhanced DBS check is required.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.