Inclusion Hub Lead

**Inclusion Hub Lead - Kirkburton Middle School**:
**Organisation**
- Schools
- **Directorate**
- Secondary Schools
- **Service Area**
- Kirkburton Middle School
- **Hours**
- Full Time
- **Number of Jobs**
- 1
- **Location(s)**
- Huddersfield and surrounding areas
- **Position type**
- Permanent
- **Grade**
- Contact the school for this information
- **Salary**
- Contact the school for this information
- **Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Kirkburton Middle School.**

**We are seeking an enthusiastic and energetic person to join our friendly and forward-thinking pastoral team as our Inclusion Hub Lead.**You will be joining our friendly and forward-thinking school at a very exciting time; a school that genuinely values the well-being of all and one that is committed to supporting your ongoing professional development.**

Kirkburton Middle School is a thriving, over-subscribed and truly unique school which caters for pupils between the ages of 10 and 13. We work in strong partnership with Scissett Middle School so staff and pupils benefit from the resources of a large school and the personal touch of a small school.

This role will involve leading and managing the school’s inclusion provision; supporting pupils who face challenges in accessing some or all of the mainstream curriculum. This role is pivotal in ensuring that all pupils, regardless of their individual needs or circumstances, are given the opportunity to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. This is a new post, therefore it provides an exciting opportunity for the right person to shape and develop this very important provision within our unique and highly successful school.

**In summary the role will include**:

- To set up and oversee the day-to-day running of the school inclusion hub.
- To ensure those pupils attending the inclusion hub continue to access learning and make progress through the prescribed curriculum.
- To oversee the pastoral care and academic progress of pupils in the inclusion hub.
- To deliver behaviour workshops and interventions for pupils who are in the inclusion hub.
- To work with pupils, and in partnership with parents, appropriate staff, and other agencies, to bring about improved behaviour and attendance.
- To take on supervisory duties as determined by the school.

**The successful applicant will**:

- Be flexible and caring.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Be committed to contributing as part of a successful team.
- Be passionate about enabling every child to fulfil their potential.
- Have a good sense of humour.

**What we can offer you**:

- Annual salary increments plus inflation linked increases.
- Automatic enrolment into a Teacher Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates.
- Enhanced occupational benefits (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave).
- Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to Health and Wellbeing services including, GP consultations, Private medial operations, Physiotherapy, Counselling and mindfulness, wellbeing clinics, nurse support services, chronic illness and cancer support, menopause support.
- Flexible family friendly policies from day one.
- Extensive CPD opportunities
- Funding of a wide range of accredited training courses and apprenticeships.
- A range of working patterns dependent upon the role.
- For employees on all year-round contracts, a minimum of 28.5 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service) holiday entitlement.
- Death in service benefit.

**Visits are warmly welcomed and highly recommended.**
- Relevant Experience
- Education and training attainments
- General and specialist knowledge
- Skills and Abilities
- Additional factors including continual professional development

We are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of all our staff with a dedicated wellbeing charter, mental health first aid trained colleagues and wellbeing advocates at each location.

We are committed to inclusivity and will consider requests for flexible working including part time and job share arrangements, where the role allows.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

**Closing date**

23 June 2025, 11:00 AM