Inclusion Team Lead

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Job Title:
Inclusion Team Lead
Location:
Willow Park School, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LJ

Salary:
Up to £38,587.00 per annum, depending on experience (not pro rata)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Monday to Friday
Contract:
Permanent | Term Time Only
Start:
January 2026

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Inclusion Team Lead to join our close-knit team at Willow Park School in Milton Keynes.

About the Role

The Inclusive Practitioner Lead will champion, implement, and embed inclusive, trauma-informed practices (TIP) across the school, ensuring that pupils with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) needs receive effective, compassionate support. This role provides both strategic leadership and operational oversight of inclusive education, staff development, and pupil wellbeing. As the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), the postholder will foster strong, trusting relationships with families and external agencies to ensure holistic support for every pupil.

The role is central to promoting evidence-informed interventions, ensuring consistency in best practice, and supporting quality assurance processes, including Sleuth reporting, data analysis, and the ongoing reduction of restrictive practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and strengthen whole-school Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP), ensuring consistent, evidence-based approaches across all settings.
• Provide direct support, coaching, and continuing professional development (CPD) to staff, empowering them to embed inclusive, trauma-informed practices in daily teaching and interactions.
• Champion the reduction of physical interventions through proactive regulation strategies, relational practice, and ongoing staff guidance.
• Ensure all staff demonstrate confidence and consistency in implementing trauma-informed approaches that promote safety, trust, and emotional regulation.
• Monitor and analyse behaviour trends using Sleuth data; deliver regular feedback to staff and adapt strategies and interventions in response to emerging needs.
• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), ensuring full compliance with safeguarding policies, procedures, and recording systems.
• Build strong partnerships with families, fostering engagement, trust, and collaboration through home visits, communication, and parent/carer support sessions.
• Ensure all safeguarding concerns are accurately recorded, appropriately followed up, and referred to external agencies when necessary.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of whole-school policies and strategy relating to inclusion, behaviour, wellbeing, and staff development.

About us

Willow Park School is a brand-new specialist school in Milton Keynes for young people aged 9–16 with a range of complex needs. Our aim is simple: to equip every child with the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to succeed in the future. Through a therapeutic educational approach, supported by specialist facilities and an experienced team, we help students with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH), communication, interaction, and associated challenging behaviours to flourish in a safe and nurturing environment.

We are part of Acorn Education and can offer plenty of challenges along with a wide range of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UK’s leading provider of specialist education for children and young people with special educational needs. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in creating and delivering innovative approaches that achieve measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Why join Acorn Education?

We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks…