School Impact Partner – Inclusion

Your career #EMATters! East Midlands Academy Trust is seeking an ambitious and passionate School Impact Partner – Inclusion to help shape the future of inclusive education across our Trust.

With EMAT continuing to grow following recent expansion across the Trust, this is a particularly exciting time to join our organisation. As we continue to invest in our schools, people, and systems, you will play a vital role within a forward‑thinking and ambitious Trust committed to ensuring every child can thrive, succeed, and achieve their full potential.

This is more than a school improvement role — it is an opportunity to influence lives, remove barriers to learning, and champion excellence for every child. We are looking for someone who believes that inclusion is not an add‑on, but the foundation of exceptional education.

Working collaboratively across our schools, you will provide strategic leadership and practical support to strengthen inclusive practice, improve outcomes for vulnerable learners, and build the capacity of school leaders and staff. You will combine vision, expertise, and hands‑on school improvement experience to create meaningful and lasting impact across the Trust.

At EMAT, we value innovation, collaboration, and impact. We are proud of our diverse workforce and are committed to creating inclusive environments where children, staff, and communities can thrive. If you are a values‑driven leader with the expertise, compassion, and determination to improve outcomes for vulnerable learners, we would love to hear from you.

Our Trust was incorporated in July 2012 to establish, maintain, manage, and develop academies and free schools as world‑class centres of excellence. We are a collaborative partnership that currently includes an all‑through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools across Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes.

By joining EMAT, you will benefit from a wide range of professional development opportunities and employee benefits, including:

• Continuous professional development and high‑quality training
• Career and leadership opportunities within our growing Trust
• A confidential 24‑hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Flu jabs for all staff
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health and wellbeing support, including access to an online GP
• An employee lifestyle savings platform
• Generous family leave provisions

School Impact Partner – Inclusion is a dynamic, field‑based role focused on improving inclusive practice and outcomes for vulnerable learners across our schools.

Working closely with Headteachers, senior leaders, SENDCOs, pastoral teams, and specialist provisions, you will help drive meaningful and sustainable improvement for pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL), looked after children (CLA), and children known or previously known to social care.

This role is accountable to the Head of Inclusion and supports the delivery of the Trust’s inclusion strategy through coaching, challenge, and hands‑on school improvement work.

You will combine strategic leadership with practical school support, helping schools strengthen inclusive practice, improve attendance and engagement, reduce exclusions, and ensure every child receives the support and opportunities they need to thrive.

• Implement the Trust’s inclusion strategy across all schools and settings
• Support leaders to evaluate the intent, implementation, and impact of inclusive provision
• Conduct inclusion reviews, audits, learning walks, and monitoring visits across schools
• Analyse attendance, behaviour, attainment, SEND, Pupil Premium, CLA, EAL, and safeguarding data to identify priorities and improve outcomes
• Provide coaching, support, and challenge to SENDCOs, inclusion leaders, and pastoral teams
• Promote high‑quality adaptive teaching and inclusive classroom practice
• Support schools to improve attendance, reduce exclusions, and strengthen engagement for vulnerable learners
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding requirements and the SEND Code of Practice
• Deliver and facilitate professional development linked to…