Secondary Inclusion Director

Venn Academy Trust, Beverley Road, HU10 6FE

35 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September

• Closing date

  16 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  11 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,074.00 - £82,652.00 Annually (FTE) L16 - L20

Secondary Inclusion Director job summary

Venn Academy Trust, in partnership with Hull City Council, is seeking an exceptional senior secondary leader to redesign and deliver Hull’s secondary inclusion and alternative provision model. This is a system reform role focused on practical implementation. Not a service manager or behaviour consultant post.

You will be a Deputy Head level leader (or equivalent) with strong pastoral and SEND expertise, able to bring clarity and consistency to secondary inclusion across the city. Hull is strengthening its graduated response so that alternative provision is time limited, reintegration focused, and aligned with strong mainstream inclusion.

Hull’s priorities include:

• Reduce secondary suspensions and permanent exclusions
• Improve reintegration rates from alternative provision
• Prevent unnecessary drift into long-term placements
• Strengthen mainstream behaviour and SEND capacity
• Stabilise alternative provision expenditure

The postholder will lead this work in partnership with secondary schools, alternative provision providers, and local authority services.

The role

As Secondary Inclusion Director Lead, you will:

• Implement Hull’s revised secondary alternative provision model
• Establish clear Step Out and Day 6 pathways with defined time limits and return plans
• Embed a citywide reintegration framework
• Build capacity with headteachers, SENDCOs, pastoral and inclusion leads
• Improve suspension practice and reduce repeat cycles
• Align SEND processes with inclusion reform
• Provide clear data analysis and reporting to governance boards
• Reduce dependency on long-term placements

The focus is practical implementation, not policy writing.

- Driving license and access to a vehicle for this role, is essential -

For an informal conversation about the role, email info@vennacademytrust.org

Closing date: 16 April 2026

Interview date: 24 April 2026

Start date: 1 September 2026

Our Multi Academy Trust is a group of inspirational and aspirational mainstream and specialist schools in Yorkshire whose main objective is to ensure that all pupils make exceptional progress through the development of outstanding staff.

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants

Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Venn Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Venn Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/venn-academy-trust

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