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Job Title: Inclusion Team Lead
Location: Willow Park School, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LJ
Salary: Up to 38,587.00 per annum, depending on experience (not pro rata)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent | Term Time Only
Start: December 2026

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Inclusion Team Lead to join our close-knit team at Willow Park School in Milton Keynes.

About the Role

The Inclusive Practitioner Lead will champion, implement, and embed inclusive, trauma-informed practices (TIP) across the school, ensuring that pupils with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) needs receive effective, compassionate support. This role provides both strategic leadership and operational oversight of inclusive education, staff development, and pupil wellbeing. As the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), the postholder will foster strong, trusting relationships with families and external agencies to ensure holistic support for every pupil. The role is central to promoting evidence-informed interventions, ensuring consistency in best practice, and supporting quality assurance processes, including Sleuth reporting, data analysis, and the ongoing reduction of restrictive practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and strengthen whole-school Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP), ensuring consistent, evidence-based approaches across all settings.
• Provide direct support, coaching, and continuing professional development (CPD) to staff, empowering them to embed inclusive, trauma-informed practices in daily teaching and interactions.
• Champion the reduction of physical interventions through proactive regulation strategies, relational practice, and ongoing staff guidance.
• Ensure all staff demonstrate confidence and consistency in implementing trauma-informed approaches that promote safety, trust, and emotional regulation.
• Monitor and analyse behaviour trends using Sleuth data; deliver regular feedback to staff and adapt strategies and interventions in response to emerging needs.
• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), ensuring full compliance with safeguarding policies, procedures, and recording systems.
• Build strong partnerships with families, fostering engagement, trust, and collaboration through home visits, communication, and parent/carer support sessions.
• Ensure all safeguarding concerns are accurately recorded, appropriately followed up, and referred to external agencies when necessary.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of whole-school policies and strategy relating to inclusion, behaviour, wellbeing, and staff development.

About us

Willow Park School is a brand-new specialist school in Milton Keynes for young people aged 916 with a range of complex needs. Our aim is simple: to equip every child with the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to succeed in the future. Through a therapeutic educational approach, supported by specialist facilities and an experienced team, we help students with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH), communication, interaction, and associated challenging behaviours to flourish in a safe and nurturing environment.

We are part of Acorn Educationand can offer plenty of challenges along with a wide range of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UKs leading provider of specialist education for children and young people with special educational needs. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in creating and delivering innovative approaches that achieve measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a Great Place to Work for the fifth year running.

Why join Acorn Education?

We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so youll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so youll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• Your Wellbeing Matters access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package thats right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.