Inclusion Advisor

Teaching Vacancies; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies is seeking an Inclusion Advisor to support a Trust-wide SEN strategy across primary and secondary academies. The role focuses on inclusive practices, ensuring high-quality SEND provision and evidence-based approaches aligned with Ofsted expectations.

The successful candidate will report to a senior executive and work with central experts to raise standards. You will be based at the Strood Head Office but will spend substantial time visiting academies to provide strategic

Qualifications

• Special education expert with superb knowledge and skills in inclusion and SEN

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic support to subject and senior leaders across the Trust
• Support academies in inclusive practices and SEND provision
• Lead on curriculum implementation and safeguarding alignment

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are now recruiting for the post of Inclusion Advisor. The successful candidate will be one of our leading professionals in this specialist area across the whole Trust, providing strategic support to subject and senior leaders in all academies. The role will focus on supporting academies in Inclusive practices, ensuring that they are meeting the needs of their SEND learners effectively in line with the best evidence-based research, our commitment to IB programmes and the Ofsted Framework. You will report directly to a member of the Trust Executive and will be part of a team of a wider team of central experts, each leading on a different specialist area. You will be based at our Strood Head Office, but will inevitably want to spend a good deal of your time visiting our academies to provide the strategic support necessary to raise standards.

We are looking for a special education expert with superb knowledge and skills in this area. You will currently be an outstanding senior leader working within SEN. Your focus will be supporting leaders across the Trust to ensure the best possible provision for pupils with SEN. This will involve working with our two special academies, the several specialist resource provisions in our mainstream academies (primary and secondary), plus pupils with EHCPs and who have SEN wherever they are in our Trust. You will be a high-performing SEN professional with a strong commitment to raising standards for young people with SEN. This is one of the most exciting job opportunities for career progression and satisfaction in our Trust today. We look forward to appointing a dynamic individual with ideas, skills and dedication to ensure our SEN pupils enjoy the best education possible.

We wish to hear from you if you are committed to changing our education world and are:

• an enthusiastic, energetic and ambitious leader with a successful track record at the primary and/or secondary level;
• a motivational and inspirational leader with high expectations of staff;
• confident and able to communicate a clear vision for the school;
• able to develop children to reach their full potential regardless of background or circumstance;
• approachable and keen to work with staff across the Trust to ensure wide success;
• able to establish and develop excellent relationships with the community and other stakeholders.

What the school offers its staff

The role itself offers superb career development and training opportunities for the successful candidate. Having proven yourself already as an excellent teacher and subject leader in SEN, you will be joining one of the UK’s largest and best-established multi-academy trusts with a specialist brief across the whole organisation. Others will look to you for advice and expertise; the impact you can have in this post will be highly significant. Key responsibilities will focus on curriculum implementation, improving the quality of teaching and securing the best outcomes for SEN pupils. We anticipate that most candidates will have aspirations for further career progression beyond the Curriculum Advisor position into senior leadership positions in one of our academies. We are extremely well-placed to assist you in achieving your ambitions based on excellent performance.

Further details about the role

Naturally, we are seeking to appoint the best possible candidate and therefore the application process will reflect our desire to undertake all necessary measures to achieve this.

On the basis that interested candidates will be keen to discuss the post prior to application, you can arrange a call by contacting Molly Allen (PA to Emma Elwin - Deputy CEO) at [e-mail]. Please ensure you offer Molly a range of dates when you are available in your initial email to ensure we can coordinate for both you and Emma Elwin.

Interview date: Friday 11th December 2026

If you have any queries on any aspect of the application process or need additional information please contact Charlotte Herberts (Recruitment Advisor) on 01634 412 245 or [e-mail].

Commitment to safeguarding

Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.