Inclusion Base Lead - The Blandford School

Main job purpose 

The Inclusion Base Lead is a new key role in managing the education and pastoral support for some of our most vulnerable students, who, on occasion are unable to manage in lessons, for behaviour or other reasons, and need a specialist area. The role reports directly to the Assistant Head (Behaviour for Learning) and complements the work of the pastoral team.   

The Inclusion Base Lead will coordinate the planning and delivery of learning activities for disaffected students who have been removed from usual lessons. The Inclusion Base Lead will co-ordinate and supervise students who have been internally isolated or relocated from lessons and will develop restorative practices intended to modify and improve behaviour and to improve relationships between students and staff.  

The school aims to promote achievement and enjoyment along with providing students with the skills and the confidence they need to learn independently. As this is a pastoral role, the Inclusion Base Lead needs to be able to relate to young people and should also have strong behaviour management skills. The Inclusion Base Lead will need to challenge and motivate students to promote and reinforce appropriate behaviour in accordance with the school policy so that effective learning can take place.

As this is a new role for the school, the successful applicant will have a significant input into the strategic and operational direction of the post.

The Blandford School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

 The Blandford School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The Blandford School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.