Inclusion Support Assistant (Temporary) - Trafalgar School

INCLUSION SUPPORT ASSISTANT (Temporary)
Salary: Band 4 - £25,201-£26,473 full time equivalent (£18799-£19748 actual)
Contract: Temporary 1-year
Hours: 31 per week / TTO + 1 week (40 weeks per year)
Closing date: 27.11.2026
Do you want a rewarding role supporting and making a difference to our students and support your
colleagues to ensure children's learning is at the centre? Then this is the vacancy for you!
The Inclusion Department is an extremely important part of #teamtrafalgar and works extremely hard
to ensure that our students are provided with the very best support possible.
Key Purpose
• To support the learning and wellbeing of our students through appropriate interventions to
empower them to be able to raise their own achievement and academic progress.
• To deliver interventions to identified students on 1:1 basis or in small groups which support
progress.
• To support the learning environment of the school by challenging students appropriately,
providing mentoring and guidance as required.
• To attend planning or review meetings and contribute to the reports for students receiving
interventions, as appropriate.
• To be able to prioritise own work, show initiative and be flexible in working across all areas of
intervention.
• To offer specialism in an area of SEND.
Trafalgar School is a beacon school for Relational Practice in the south which means we put the building,
maintaining, and restoring of relationships with all members of our community at the heart of everything
we do. It is essential that the post holder shares our school ethos which is firmly rooted in this
restorative practice approach. We work restoratively with students, families and with each other to
maintain the strong community culture and our very strong inclusive ethos.
To Apply
Please go to our website: www.trafalgarschool.org.uk or Salterns Academy Trust and complete the
Application Form and return to hr.trafalgar@salterns.org.
Early applications are encouraged, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate
is found.
Contact
If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a tour, please contact our HR
Department on 02392 693521 EXT: 1802.
Safeguarding
The Salterns Academy Trust and Trafalgar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant
employment checks.
Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.
Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and
if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant self-declaration and disclosure
form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered declare:
• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as
defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in
2020).
• If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk.
The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings,
and any other information held by local police that’s considered relevant to the role. Any information
that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not
appear on a DBS certificate.
The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and
Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a
check to be made.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020)
provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are
considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are
disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of
Justice website. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The filtering rules were updated on 28 November 2020 as follows:
• Warnings, reprimands, and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS
certificate.
• The multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than
one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered
against the remaining rules individually, rather than all being automatically disclosed.