Behaviour Support and Inclusion Officer - Werneth School

Education Learning Trust; Marple; Remote; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Career progression

Wellbeing support

Employee assistance programme

Discounts

Job summary

Education Learning Trust’s Werneth School is seeking a permanent Behaviour Support and Inclusion Officer to join its dedicated Behaviour and Inclusion team. The role focuses on safeguarding, improving conduct, and reintegrating students back into learning after behavioural incidents.

The post offers a permanent contract of 37 hours per week at Werneth School in Greater Manchester, with responsibilities to deliver targeted interventions and ensure no learning time is lost.

Job description

Behaviour Support and Inclusion Officer - Werneth School

Contract: Permanent

Closing date for applications:2 November 2026, 9.00am

Contract type: Permanent, 37 hours per week,
Location: Werneth School
Required from: As soon as possible
Salary: Scale 6 Point 18-22 £32,578 to £34,811
Actual Salary: £27,866 – £29,777

As a vibrant, diligent and supportive department, our Behaviour and Inclusion team works to support students and staff delivering targeted behaviour interventions that enable students to reflect, reset and successfully reintegrate into learning.

The role is central to maintaining high standards of behaviour, safeguarding students, and ensuring that no learning time is lost due to poor conduct.

This role is your opportunity to join a passionate team of professionals striving for excellence.

For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.

About Education Learning Trust:

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package.

• a highly competitive salary
• a respected and generous pension scheme
• outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development
• supporting your health and wellbeing
• offering access to our award-winning employee assistance programme
• a wide range of employee benefits and discounts

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).