Inclusion Mentor

Warwickshire County Council,

We are looking to recruit an experienced and skilled practitioner to join Warwickshire’s Specialist Teaching Service as an Inclusion Mentor. The Specialist Teaching Service has considerable experience of working with schools and settings to strengthen inclusive practice to support learners with cognition and learning, social, emotional and mental health, and communication and interaction needs.

Full time – 37 hours per week, term time only.

• East area – Rugby base
• Nuneaton and Bedworth / North Warwickshire area – Bedworth base
• South area – Warwick base

This post requires a skilled, organised and flexible practitioner who is able to work effectively in a high-pressure environment. Inclusion Mentors will play an important role in the Experts at Hand offer, working alongside schools to build confidence, capacity and inclusive practice. The role will include capacity-building work with schools, mentoring and coaching staff, providing practical advice on strategies, resources and ordinarily available provision.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with schools and staff to strengthen early intervention, develop inclusive approaches, and support learners’ needs through ordinarily available provision and effective SEND Support.

You will hold a recognised qualification relevant to the role, equivalent to NVQ Level 3 or above, or be working towards one. You will also have recent successful experience of working as a teaching assistant, or in a similar role, with pupils who experience barriers to learning, ideally in a mainstream school or similar setting.

• significant and successful post-qualification mainstream experience, with up-to-date knowledge and understanding of effective SEND practice and current issues;
• the ability to influence, coach and support staff and leaders in schools and settings, promoting evidence-based SEND support practice to meet an increasingly diverse range of need and influence practice at an earlier stage;
• the experience and expertise to work positively with school staff and a range of other professionals;
• the ability to work under pressure, meet unpredictable deadlines and manage competing demands effectively;
• the ability to work as part of the team around the child, developing and sharing creative approaches and positively influencing the practice of others through training and coaching.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit:
Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.