Multi Site Inclusion Support Practitioner & Attendance Officer

Do you want a career that can positively impact children’s lives? Then your career could be as an #EMATter! We are currently recruiting Inclusion Support Practitioners (ISP) to work alongside teachers to help children be the best they can be through a range of activities, interventions, and attendance support. As an ISP, you may specialise in our additional resource provisions or work across year groups and phases in mainstream settings.

We are an organisation that values diversity and will invest in you to become the best. Join us at EMAT to be part of a team that values innovation, inclusivity, and impact.

We are currently recruiting Multi-site Inclusion Support Practitioners to work across schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. In this vital role, you will support teachers in delivering high-quality learning by working across classrooms and schools, planning and delivering lessons, leading small group interventions, providing flexible cover, and helping pupils maintain regular attendance and engagement with learning.

About EMAT

EMAT is an exciting, impactful organisation where innovation is encouraged, aligned with our core values and purpose: that every child deserves to be the best they can be. Our Trust was incorporated in July 2012 to establish, maintain, manage, and develop academies and free schools as world-class centres of excellence. We are a collaborative partnership that currently educates around 5,000 children every year.

Our schools include an all-through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. By becoming an #EMATter, you’ll be able to take advantage of a wealth of professional development and support opportunities, as well as a range of employee benefits.

These include:

• Continuous professional development and training opportunities
• Career and leadership opportunities within our growing family of schools
• A confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flu jabs for all staff
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to health and wellbeing benefits, including an online GP
• Access to an employee lifestyle savings platform
• Generous family leave

Your Impact

In response to increasing complexity in special and pastoral needs, EMAT created the Inclusion Support Practitioner role to enhance teaching, learning, and engagement by:

• Supporting consistently high expectations and standards in every classroom
• Enthusing, engaging, and motivating students to achieve their best
• Building trust and confidence in both students and colleagues
• Promoting positive attendance, punctuality, and engagement as part of learning and wellbeing
• Supporting reintegration and catch-up learning for pupils who have been absent
• Working with families and pastoral teams to remove barriers to regular attendance

In this role, you will work proactively and independently, providing targeted support to students both with and without specific needs, adapting learning, leading small group or one-to-one interventions, and supporting attendance alongside academic progress. You will collaborate closely with teachers, SENDCos, family liaison teams, educational psychologists, speech and language professionals, NHS Education Mental Health Support Teams, and local authority services to ensure a joined-up approach to each child’s learning, wellbeing, and engagement.

General Roles and Responsibilities

To ensure the greatest possible progress and development of students, you will:

• Set consistently high expectations and standards
• Enthuse, engage, and motivate students
• Inspire trust and confidence in students and colleagues
• Support learners’ attendance and engagement alongside their learning, helping pupils overcome barriers to regular school participation
• Deliver interventions, adapt learning, and provide flexible cover to support catch‑up and reintegration
• Build positive relationships with families to improve communication and engagement, including attendance support

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