Inclusion Manager

School Mission Statement: St James’ Catholic High School aims to ensure everyone within our school family achieves their full potential, to encourage learning and development through faith, and to strive for excellence.

Purpose

• Under an agreed system of supervision, work with the Assistant Headteacher, Heads of Year and Form Tutors to address the needs of pupils who require support to overcome barriers to learning.
• Lead the Damascus room offering pupils the chance to reflect on poor choices they have made.
• Inspire and engage pupils in the vision for the school.
• Promote positive behaviour management by modelling and suggesting effective strategies in class and around school, including break and lunchtimes.

Pastoral Support

• Take a lead role in delivering pastoral support to pupils through the Damascus room.
• Provide advice to pupils relating to their social, health, hygiene and emotional development needs.
• Assist the teacher with the development and implementation of individual Education/Behaviour/Support/Mentoring plans.
• Lead on the Behaviour Curriculum.
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model.
• Arrange and develop 1:1 mentoring for pupils and provide support for distressed pupils individually or in small groups.
• Support the integration of those who have been absent e.g. through long term illness, exclusion.
• Provide information and advice to enable pupils to make choices about their own learning/behaviour and attendance and consequences of their actions.
• Facilitate restorative conversations between pupils and/or staff.
• Challenge and motivate pupils, promote and reinforce self-esteem.
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress, achievement, behaviour, attendance etc.
• Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging information, facilitating their support for their child’s attendance, access to learning and supporting home to school and community links.
• Take a lead role in the development, implementation and monitoring of systems relating to attendance and integration e.g. registration, truancy, pastoral systems etc.
• Be responsible for recording the SLT lunchtime detentions.
• Run the SLT after school detentions.
• Deal as appropriate with administration e.g. dealing with correspondence, compilation/analysis/reporting on attendance, exclusions, making phone calls.
• Investigate incidents occurring in a school context and report the results of those investigations to the Form Tutor, Head of Year or Assistant Headteacher as appropriate.
• Update the behaviour log on SIMS.
• Update the Damascus data on Google sheets.

Teaching and Learning Support

• Support pupils’ access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources.
• Work with other staff, including specialist staff and professional agencies in planning, evaluating and adjusting learning activities as appropriate.
• Monitor and evaluate pupils’ responses and progress against action plans through observation and planned recording.
• Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as required to other staff on pupil’s achievement ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence.
• Manage recordkeeping systems and processes.
• Take a key role in the development and implementation of appropriate behaviour management strategies.
• Actively seek support for pupils to broaden and enrich their learning.

School Support

• Comply with all policies and procedures within school.
• Establish constructive relationships with staff and external agencies to support achievement of pupils.
• Attend and participate in meetings as directed, these will include calendarised evening events e.g. parents and curriculum evenings.
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required.
• Undertake supervisory duties as directed by the Assistant Headteacher.
• Have an involvement in other activities assigned by the Headteacher.

School Ethos and Culture

• Help foster the spiritual development of pupils in accordance with the school’s Mission Statement.
• Ensure that the school’s vision is understood and clearly and effectively articulated to all pupils.
• Promote the school’s ethos and culture to the broader community.

Other Specific Duties

Many specific responsibilities will require collaborative working with other team members which, as the Inclusion Manager, you will develop proactively. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS disclosure and basic online searches. While every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task may not be identified. The post holder will be expected to comply with all reasonable requests from the Headteacher to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in their job description.