Head of Inclusion

7 days ago


UAE, United Arab Emirates Star International School Mirdif Full time

Vision: To grow the future leaders and global citizens of tomorrow, who will Go Beyond and change our world for the better.
- Mission: Through amazing learning opportunities and personalised pathways, our educators and students Go Beyond to ensure every member of our Star Family achieves their personal best both inside and beyond the classroom
- Values: Self-belief, teamwork, adventure, respect

Star International School Mirdif is a community school that is rooted in kindness and amazing learning. We offer our pupils:

- Centre of research informed T&L
- EdTech best practice with AI powered T&L
- Awe & Wonder offering beyond the National curriculum
- STEAM+ curriculum focusing on global and cosmic problems
- Safe with incredible learning behaviours
- EYFS-Post-16 (GCSE/A-Level/BTEC) British curriculum school in the heart of Mirdif Dubai

The head of inclusion takes a full and active role in all aspects of school life including teaching, mentoring, supporting, observing, coaching and working with parents. This is a whole school senior leadership position within the school’s structure, working closely with the head of primary, head of secondary and principal.

Key qualities and skills:

- Warmth, empathy, credibility, self-belief, integrity, drive and child-centred
- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to have difficult conversations around sensitive issues
- Cultural sensitivity to the needs of our community
- An efficient and effective communicator

Core purposes:

- To ensure that all children of determination and groups of children including gifted and talented children make as much progress as possible
- To provide expert advice and training to colleagues and families to support the learning of children with a range of needs
- In line with the UAE vision, be the inclusion champion for our school and manage the work of other team members

**Key duties**:

- Curriculum, learning and teaching and assessment_
- To support teachers to plan and deliver creative and engaging lessons, ensuring that children are actively learning throughout each lesson and that every child makes as much progress as possible
- To lead, monitor and report on assessment processes which identify pupils in monitored groups in need of support
- To develop personalised professional development programmes for individual teachers as needed alongside the leadership team of the school to ensure accelerated progress for all children
- Strategy and leadership_
- To develop IEPs and provision maps to address pupil’s needs
- To organise and facilitate programmes and extra-curricular activities for groups
- To coordinate and administer inclusion assessments throughout the school
- To liaise closely with colleagues from other schools and outside agencies
- To support the governors for inclusive education and safeguarding to fulfil their duties
- To work with middle leaders in all phases to develop coherence between specialised and mainstream curriculums
- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national and local initiatives which may affect the school’s policies and practices and ensure all requirements are met
- To monitor and review the inclusive education action plan and Inclusion SEF
- To line manage staff employed to support children with additional needs
- To participate and lead staff training and contribute to the establishment and development of the school community
- To comply with our agreed policies
- To quickly respond to the issues identified in our recent KHDA inspection to ensure that inclusion is graded as being at least good in the next inspection
- To liaise with other schools and networks such as BSME and ISP
- Community_
- To provide training within and beyond our school to colleagues and families
- To actively engage with our school community e.g. through newsletters, informal dialogue, reporting, supporting school functions and contributing to community and marketing activities to make Star International School the school of choice for the community

Line managed by the school principal

Hours of work
- 7.25am-4.00pm Monday to Thursday, 7.25am to 12pm on Fridays plus occasional evening, weekend and Friday afternoon work

Holidays
- as per the school KHDA approved calendar (with a total of ten days working during the breaks together/split throughout the year)

**Skills, Qualifications and Experience**
- Education_: Relevant UK teaching qualification: minimum of a Bed. or BA/BSc + PGCE/QTS (special education degree)
- Experience_: Min of 5 years in an inclusion leadership role in a British school either internationally or in the UK.
- Competencies:_
- Excellent working knowledge of the UK Curriculum and the latest UK practice
- Excellent IT skills, communication skills, and command of the English language, in spoken and written form
- A collaborative team-player with excellent personal skills.
- Classroom and behaviour management
- Attributes:_
- Collaborative team player, empathetic listener
- Integrity and con


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