SEND and Inclusion Support Lead Practitioner

Teaching Vacancies; Bilston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies is seeking a SEND and Inclusion Support Lead Practitioner to enhance learner support across the college. You will provide advanced classroom support, guide Support Workers, and contribute to quality assurance and planning processes to help learners with additional needs progress and develop independence.

Interviews may occur in late November 2026. The role requires commitment to safeguarding and child protection policies across the college environment.

Responsibilities

• To enhance the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of learner support across the college by providing advanced classroom support, guiding Support Workers, contributing to quality assurance processes, and supporting operational planning.
• The SEND and Inclusion Support Lead Practitioner will work collaboratively with curriculum teams, SEND & Inclusion staff, and support colleagues to ensure learners with additional needs are able to progress, achieve, and develop independence.
• Interviews may be held on WC 30TH November 2026; staff must undertake safeguarding checks including enhanced DBS as part of the recruitment process.

Job description

SEND and Inclusion Support Lead Practitioner

What skills and experience we're looking for

Our vision is to be a leading education provider, committed to excellence in all we do. Empowering learners of Wolverhampton and beyond with skills, knowledge and the positivity needed to thrive and succeed in current and future opportunities. Aligning to our purpose in Defining Futures.

We provide further, higher, and adult education to approximately 8,000 students and apprentices, aiming to deliver extraordinary teaching and learning experiences through a responsive and innovative curriculum.

We operate from two main campuses and boast several specialized training centres.

Aligned with our strategic aim to provide first-class estates and resources, our £8.1 million Advanced Technology and Automotive Centre (ATAC) opened in September 2024, purpose-built for engineering and automotive studies.

We opened the doors, in November 2025 to a state-of-the-art £61 million city centre campus.

College life is exciting and positive. We deliver fantastic outcomes, currently ranked 3rd for achievement among all further education providers in England and rated ‘Good’ by OfSTED in January 2023.

Job Purpose:

To enhance the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of learner support across the college by providing advanced classroom support, guiding Support Workers, contributing to quality assurance processes, and supporting operational planning. The SEND and Inclusion Support Lead Practitioner will work collaboratively with curriculum teams, SEND & Inclusion staff, and support colleagues to ensure learners with additional needs are able to progress, achieve, and develop independence.

Please note - Interviews will potentially take place on WC 30TH November 2026

We expect all staff to share our commitment to PREVENT and Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young adults. All successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure and barring service check and children and adults barred list checks where the applicant will be employed in a regulated activity. This position is subject to an ENHANCED Child Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974.

What the college offers its staff

The benefits of working for the College include:

• Hours worked per week = 37
• Enhanced Annual Leave
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
• Family Friendly Policies
• CPD Days
• Access to Occupational Health Services
• Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.