Inclusion Officer

**Kirkburton Middle School**
Kirklees

£25,000 - £27,000 per year

Expiring soon

**Job type**:

Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:

4th November or sooner if possible
20 September 2024

**Job overview**:
**We are seeking an enthusiastic and energetic person to join our friendly and forward-thinking pastoral team as our Inclusion Officer. The role will involve actively supporting and maintaining the already high standards of behaviour and welfare in school.**

This includes undertaking on call duties and pastoral investigations. It will also involve managing day to day behaviour issues and supporting pupils to find resolutions. The role will often include liaising with parents/carers. This role will also involve providing some support to the school’s SENDCO, particularly in the management of SEND paperwork and other associated administrative tasks.

In summary the role will include:

- To help address any pastoral needs of pupils who require assistance in overcoming barriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential.
- To work with pupils and in partnership with parents, appropriate staff and other agencies to bring about improved behaviour and attendance.
- To promote positive attitudes from pupils and families towards education to ensure pupils benefit fully from the opportunities available to them.
- To work with identified vulnerable pupils and any others requiring support.
- Under the supervision of the school safeguarding lead, to manage, respond to and forward safeguarding concerns about the pupils of Kirkburton Middle School.
- To support the SENDCo in the management of SEND plans through administration management.
- 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.

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.**

**Applications should be made via the Trust website**

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.

**Attached documents**:

- Applicant Info Pack
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Inspection report
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**About **Kirkburton Middle School**:
**Kirkburton Middle School**
- Turnshaws Avenue, Kirkburton, Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD8 0TJ
United Kingdom
+44 1484 222737
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**Our School**:
Kirkburton Middle School is a mixed, non-denominational academy middle school for pupils aged 10-13. We are a highly popular, oversubscribed and ambitious school with 510 pupils on roll. We pride ourselves in being a vibrant and inclusive school that is passionate about the continuous development of the 'whole child’ within a middle school setting.

The three years between the ages of ten and thirteen are characterised by rapid physical, social and emotional change and are of great significance in the academic and social development of young people. Kirkburton Middle School provides a welcoming and secure environment in which pupils enter as young children and leave as confident young adults, each developing at the rate that is right for them. Academic standards at the end of Year 8 are above average and there is a thriving programme of extra-curricular activities. The ethos of the school is a particular strength: welco