Job start date: 13 January 2025 or as soon as possible. Hours per week: 32.5 term time only Rednal Hill Junior School Irwin Avenue Birmingham B45 8QY Telephone number: 0121 453 2520 Contact email: g.hallrednalhilljuniors.com Contract type: Permanent At Rednal Hill Junior School we are seeking to appoint an Inclusion Support Assistant/Learning Mentor to join our well-established, dedicated and passionate Inclusion Team. Our school has a wonderfully diverse community which it serves, and we are committed to engaging and communicating effectively with children, families and outside agencies to ensure that children feel happy, safe and successful in their learning. We are looking for an applicant who is: committed, enthusiastic, flexible and creative in their ability to support children with additional needs, and particularly those who require support with the development of their social skills and emotional literacy. The ability to develop good working relationships and be an effective communicator is essential, to enable you to work successfully with our children, parents, visiting professionals and outside agencies to ensure the best possible outcomes for all our pupils. The successful applicant will be a key member of the school’s Pastoral Team, and willing to undertake Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training to enable them to work effectively alongside our existing DSLs to manage Safeguarding on a day-to-day basis. We can offer the applicant the opportunity to work in a welcoming, nurturing and forward-thinking school with wonderful pupils, friendly and supportive staff and a responsive and pro-active Leadership team. We are committed to staff wellbeing and opportunities for continued professional development. If you would like to visit our school, this is encouraged and can be facilitated at the following days: Monday 16 December at 2:00pm, Tuesday 17 December at 2:00pm. To arrange to attend one of the scheduled visits and/or obtain further details and application forms please contact Mrs. Gemma Hall on 0121 453 2520 or email: g.hallrednalhilljuniors.com This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. How to apply: Please download the job description and person specification and Apply Online Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above. Interviews will be held on: Friday 10 January 2025 This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. BCC is a Living Wage employer. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.