diff --git a/docs/models/pooling_models/token_embed.md b/docs/models/pooling_models/token_embed.md
index 3396f4eac2d..b0e094267db 100644
--- a/docs/models/pooling_models/token_embed.md
+++ b/docs/models/pooling_models/token_embed.md
@@ -71,6 +71,14 @@ Models of any architecture can be converted into embedding models using `--conve
 
 If your model is not in the above list, we will try to automatically convert the model using [as_embedding_model][vllm.model_executor.models.adapters.as_embedding_model].
 
+### Special models
+
+| Architecture | Models | Example HF Models | [LoRA](../../features/lora.md) | [PP](../../serving/parallelism_scaling.md) |
+| ------------ | ------ | ----------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------- |
+| `JinaForRanking` | Qwen3-based | `jinaai/jina-reranker-v3` | | |
+
+jina-reranker-v3 is a listwise document reranker model with a novel `last but not late interaction` architecture. More information can be found at: [examples/pooling/token_embed/jina_reranker_v3_offline.py](../../../examples/pooling/token_embed/jina_reranker_v3_offline.py)
+
 --8<-- [end:supported-token-embed-models]
 
 ## Offline Inference
diff --git a/examples/pooling/token_embed/jina_reranker_v3_offline.py b/examples/pooling/token_embed/jina_reranker_v3_offline.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c250eccc62a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/pooling/token_embed/jina_reranker_v3_offline.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+# ruff: noqa: E501
+
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from vllm import LLM
+
+query = "What are the health benefits of green tea?"
+documents = [
+    "Green tea contains antioxidants called catechins that may help reduce inflammation and protect cells from damage.",
+    "El precio del café ha aumentado un 20% este año debido a problemas en la cadena de suministro.",
+    "Studies show that drinking green tea regularly can improve brain function and boost metabolism.",
+    "Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the United States.",
+    "绿茶富含儿茶素等抗氧化剂，可以降低心脏病风险，还有助于控制体重。",
+    "Le thé vert est riche en antioxydants et peut améliorer la fonction cérébrale.",
+]
+
+
+def main():
+    # Initialize model
+    llm = LLM(
+        model="jinaai/jina-reranker-v3",
+        runner="pooling",
+    )
+
+    # Generate scores.
+    outputs = llm.score(query, documents)
+
+    # Print the outputs.
+    print("\nGenerated Outputs:\n" + "-" * 60)
+    for document, output in zip(documents, outputs):
+        score = output.outputs.score
+        print(f"Pair: {[query, document]!r} \nScore: {score}")
+        print("-" * 60)
+
+    # Generate embeddings.
+    # The JinaForRanking model concatenates docs first, then query.
+    # Let's stay consistent with this novel design.
+    outputs = llm.encode(documents + [query], pooling_task="token_embed")
+    embeds = outputs[0].outputs.data.float()
+
+    doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+    query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+    scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+
+    # Print the outputs.
+    print("\nGenerated Outputs:\n" + "-" * 60)
+    for document, score in zip(documents, scores):
+        print(f"Pair: {[query, document]!r} \nScore: {score}")
+        print("-" * 60)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2758c3e0ac1..660b94fac77 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ python = "./.venv"
 [tool.typos.files]
 # these files may be written in non english words
 extend-exclude = ["tests/models/fixtures/*", "tests/prompts/*", "tests/tokenizers_/*",
-    "benchmarks/sonnet.txt", "tests/lora/data/*", "examples/pooling/token_embed/*", "build/*",
+    "benchmarks/sonnet.txt", "tests/lora/data/*", "build/*",
+    "examples/pooling/token_embed/*", "tests/models/language/pooling/*",
     "vllm/third_party/*", "vllm/entrypoints/serve/instrumentator/static/*", "tests/entrypoints/openai/speech_to_text/test_transcription_validation.py",
     "docs/governance/process.md", "tests/v1/engine/test_fast_incdec_prefix_err.py", ".git/*"]
 ignore-hidden = false
diff --git a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_jina_reranker_v3.py b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_jina_reranker_v3.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dcce6d5bd4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_jina_reranker_v3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+# ruff: noqa: E501
+import pytest
+import requests
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from tests.utils import RemoteOpenAIServer
+from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.pooling.protocol import PoolingResponse
+from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.scoring.protocol import ScoreResponse
+
+model_name = "jinaai/jina-reranker-v3"
+query = "What are the health benefits of green tea?"
+documents = [
+    "Green tea contains antioxidants called catechins that may help reduce inflammation and protect cells from damage.",
+    "El precio del café ha aumentado un 20% este año debido a problemas en la cadena de suministro.",
+    "Studies show that drinking green tea regularly can improve brain function and boost metabolism.",
+    "Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the United States.",
+    "绿茶富含儿茶素等抗氧化剂，可以降低心脏病风险，还有助于控制体重。",
+    "Le thé vert est riche en antioxydants et peut améliorer la fonction cérébrale.",
+]
+
+EMBEDDING_SIZE = 512
+REFERENCE_1_VS_1 = [
+    0.345703125,
+    -0.10498046,
+    0.314453125,
+    -0.1376953125,
+    0.3398437500,
+    0.2539062,
+]
+REFERENCE_1_VS_N = [
+    0.294921875,
+    -0.16015625,
+    0.189453125,
+    -0.1708984375,
+    0.2255859375,
+    0.1640625,
+]
+TOL = 0.01
+
+
+def test_offline(vllm_runner):
+    with vllm_runner(model_name, runner="pooling") as llm_runner:
+        llm = llm_runner.get_llm()
+        _test_offline_1_v_1(llm)
+        _test_offline_1_v_n(llm)
+        _test_offline_n_v_n(llm)
+        _test_offline_token_embed_illegal_inputs(llm)
+        assert llm.model_config.embedding_size == EMBEDDING_SIZE
+
+
+def test_online():
+    with RemoteOpenAIServer(model_name, ["--runner", "pooling"]) as server:
+        _test_online_1_v_1(server)
+        _test_online_1_v_n(server)
+        _test_online_n_v_n(server)
+        _test_online_token_embed_illegal_inputs(server)
+
+
+def _test_offline_1_v_1(llm):
+    # test llm.score
+    outputs = llm.score(query, documents[0])
+    assert len(outputs) == 1
+    assert outputs[0].outputs.score == pytest.approx(REFERENCE_1_VS_1[0], abs=TOL)
+
+    # test llm.encode
+    outputs = llm.encode(documents[:1] + [query], pooling_task="token_embed")
+    embeds = outputs[0].outputs.data.float()
+    assert embeds.shape[0] == 2
+    assert embeds.shape[-1] == EMBEDDING_SIZE
+
+    doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+    query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+    scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+    assert scores[0] == pytest.approx(REFERENCE_1_VS_1[0], abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_offline_1_v_n(llm):
+    # test llm.score
+    outputs = llm.score(query, documents)
+    assert len(outputs) == len(documents)
+
+    for expected, output in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_N, outputs):
+        actual = output.outputs.score
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+    # test llm.encode
+    outputs = llm.encode(documents + [query], pooling_task="token_embed")
+    embeds = outputs[0].outputs.data.float()
+    assert embeds.shape[0] == len(documents) + 1
+
+    doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+    query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+    scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+
+    assert len(scores) == len(documents)
+    for expected, actual in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_N, scores):
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_offline_n_v_n(llm):
+    # test llm.score
+    outputs = llm.score([query] * len(documents), documents)
+    assert len(outputs) == len(documents)
+
+    for expected, output in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_1, outputs):
+        actual = output.outputs.score
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+    # test llm.encode
+    for doc, expected in zip(documents, REFERENCE_1_VS_1):
+        outputs = llm.encode([doc, query], pooling_task="token_embed")
+        embeds = outputs[0].outputs.data.float()
+        assert embeds.shape[0] == 2
+
+        doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+        query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+        scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+        assert scores[0] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_offline_token_embed_illegal_inputs(llm):
+    with pytest.raises(
+        ValueError, match="The JinaForRanking model requires at least 2 inputs."
+    ):
+        llm.encode([query], pooling_task="token_embed")
+
+    with pytest.raises(
+        ValueError, match="The JinaForRanking model only supports text as input."
+    ):
+        llm.encode([1, 2, 3], pooling_task="token_embed")
+
+
+def _get_scores(server, query, document):
+    score_response = requests.post(
+        server.url_for("score"),
+        json={
+            "model": model_name,
+            "queries": query,
+            "documents": document,
+        },
+    )
+
+    score_response.raise_for_status()
+    score = ScoreResponse.model_validate(score_response.json())
+
+    return [d.score for d in score.data]
+
+
+def _get_embeds(server, prompts: list[str]):
+    response = requests.post(
+        server.url_for("pooling"),
+        json={
+            "model": model_name,
+            "task": "token_embed",
+            "input": prompts,
+            "encoding_format": "float",
+        },
+    )
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    poolings = PoolingResponse.model_validate(response.json())
+
+    return torch.as_tensor([d.data for d in poolings.data][0]).float()
+
+
+def _test_online_1_v_1(server):
+    # test scoring api
+    scores = _get_scores(server, query, documents[0])
+    assert len(scores) == 1
+    assert scores[0] == pytest.approx(REFERENCE_1_VS_1[0], abs=TOL)
+
+    # test pooling api
+    embeds = _get_embeds(server, [documents[0], query])
+    assert embeds.shape[0] == 2
+    assert embeds.shape[-1] == EMBEDDING_SIZE
+
+    doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+    query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+    scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+    assert scores[0] == pytest.approx(REFERENCE_1_VS_1[0], abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_online_1_v_n(server):
+    # test scoring api
+    scores = _get_scores(server, query, documents)
+    assert len(scores) == len(documents)
+
+    for expected, actual in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_N, scores):
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+    # test pooling api
+    embeds = _get_embeds(server, documents + [query])
+    assert embeds.shape[0] == len(documents) + 1
+
+    doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+    query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+    scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+
+    assert len(scores) == len(documents)
+    for expected, actual in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_N, scores):
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_online_n_v_n(server):
+    # test scoring api
+    scores = _get_scores(server, [query] * len(documents), documents)
+    assert len(scores) == len(documents)
+
+    for expected, actual in zip(REFERENCE_1_VS_1, scores):
+        assert actual == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+    # test pooling api
+    for doc, expected in zip(documents, REFERENCE_1_VS_1):
+        embeds = _get_embeds(server, [doc, query])
+        assert embeds.shape[0] == 2
+
+        doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+        query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+
+        scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+        assert len(scores) == 1
+        assert scores[0] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=TOL)
+
+
+def _test_online_token_embed_illegal_inputs(server):
+    response = requests.post(
+        server.url_for("pooling"),
+        json={
+            "model": model_name,
+            "task": "token_embed",
+            "input": [query],
+            "encoding_format": "float",
+        },
+    )
+    assert response.json()["error"]["message"].startswith(
+        "The JinaForRanking model requires at least 2 inputs."
+    )
+
+    response = requests.post(
+        server.url_for("pooling"),
+        json={
+            "model": model_name,
+            "task": "token_embed",
+            "input": [1, 2, 3],
+            "encoding_format": "float",
+        },
+    )
+    assert response.json()["error"]["message"].startswith(
+        "The JinaForRanking model only supports text as input."
+    )
+
+    response = requests.post(
+        server.url_for("pooling"),
+        json={
+            "model": model_name,
+            "task": "token_embed",
+            "messages": [
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": "The cat sat on the mat.",
+                }
+            ],
+            "encoding_format": "float",
+        },
+    )
+    assert response.json()["error"]["message"].startswith(
+        "The JinaForRanking does not support chat Request."
+    )
diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
index b9ea5103594..45733f7d435 100644
--- a/tests/models/registry.py
+++ b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ _LATE_INTERACTION_EXAMPLE_MODELS = {
         trust_remote_code=True,
         hf_overrides={"architectures": ["ColBERTLfm2Model"]},
     ),
+    "JinaForRanking": _HfExamplesInfo("jinaai/jina-reranker-v3"),
     # [Multimodal]
     "ColModernVBertForRetrieval": _HfExamplesInfo(
         "ModernVBERT/colmodernvbert-merged",
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/embed/io_processor.py b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/embed/io_processor.py
index 623fee4fd3b..d7ee6ae5813 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/embed/io_processor.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/embed/io_processor.py
@@ -24,7 +24,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.embed.protocol import (
     EmbeddingChatRequest,
     EmbeddingCompletionRequest,
 )
-from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.typing import PoolingServeContext
+from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.scoring.io_processor import JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin
+from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.typing import (
+    OfflineInputsContext,
+    PoolingChatLikeRequest,
+    PoolingCompletionLikeRequest,
+    PoolingServeContext,
+)
 from vllm.inputs import EngineInput, tokens_input
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.outputs import PoolingOutput, PoolingRequestOutput
@@ -553,3 +559,48 @@ class EmbedIOProcessor(PoolingIOProcessor):
 
 class TokenEmbedIOProcessor(PoolingIOProcessor):
     name = "token_embed"
+
+
+class JinaRankingTokenEmbedIOProcessor(
+    TokenEmbedIOProcessor, JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin
+):
+    def pre_process_online(self, ctx: PoolingServeContext):
+        request = ctx.request
+        if isinstance(request, PoolingCompletionLikeRequest):
+            prompts = request.input
+            if not isinstance(prompts, Sequence) or len(prompts) < 2:
+                raise ValueError("The JinaForRanking model requires at least 2 inputs.")
+
+            text_prompts = self.ensure_str(prompts)
+
+            # The JinaForRanking model concatenates docs first, then query.
+            # Let's stay consistent with this novel design.
+            prompt_input = self.format_docs_prompts_func(
+                query=text_prompts[-1], docs=text_prompts[:-1]
+            )
+
+            engine_inputs = self._preprocess_completion_online(
+                request,
+                prompt_input=prompt_input,
+                prompt_embeds=None,
+            )
+        elif isinstance(request, PoolingChatLikeRequest):
+            raise ValueError("The JinaForRanking does not support chat Request.")
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid {self.name} request type")
+
+        ctx.engine_inputs = engine_inputs
+
+    def pre_process_offline(self, ctx: OfflineInputsContext) -> Sequence[EngineInput]:
+        if not isinstance(ctx.prompts, Sequence) or len(ctx.prompts) < 2:
+            raise ValueError("The JinaForRanking model requires at least 2 inputs.")
+
+        text_prompts = self.ensure_str(ctx.prompts)
+
+        # The JinaForRanking model concatenates docs first, then query.
+        # Let's stay consistent with this novel design.
+        ctx.prompts = self.format_docs_prompts_func(
+            query=text_prompts[-1], docs=text_prompts[:-1]
+        )
+
+        return super().pre_process_offline(ctx)
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/io_processor_factories.py b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/io_processor_factories.py
index de60a746a35..5e67d069da7 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/io_processor_factories.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/io_processor_factories.py
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ def init_pooling_io_processors(
         if score_type is not None and score_type in ScoringIOProcessors:
             processors[score_type] = ScoringIOProcessors[score_type]
 
+    if model_config.architecture == "JinaForRanking":
+        from .embed.io_processor import JinaRankingTokenEmbedIOProcessor
+        from .scoring.io_processor import ScoringIOProcessors
+
+        processors["token_embed"] = JinaRankingTokenEmbedIOProcessor
+        processors["late-interaction"] = ScoringIOProcessors["jina-reranking-scoring"]
+
     return {
         task: processor_cls(
             vllm_config=vllm_config,
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/io_processor.py b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/io_processor.py
index dd505c79cf1..994c3c453bf 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/io_processor.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/io_processor.py
@@ -416,11 +416,137 @@ class CrossEncoderIOProcessor(ScoringIOProcessor):
         return full_prompt, engine_prompt
 
 
+class JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin:
+    @staticmethod
+    def sanitize_input(text: str, special_tokens: dict[str, str]) -> str:
+        for token in special_tokens.values():
+            text = text.replace(token, "")
+        return text
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def format_docs_prompts_func(
+        query: str,
+        docs: list[str],
+        special_tokens: dict[str, str] | None = None,
+        instruction: str | None = None,
+        no_thinking: bool = True,
+    ) -> str:
+        # TODO: Try converting the code below into a chat template.
+
+        default_special_tokens = {
+            "query_embed_token": "<|rerank_token|>",
+            "doc_embed_token": "<|embed_token|>",
+        }
+        if special_tokens is None:
+            special_tokens = default_special_tokens
+
+        query = JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin.sanitize_input(query, special_tokens)
+        docs = [
+            JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin.sanitize_input(doc, special_tokens)
+            for doc in docs
+        ]
+
+        prefix = (
+            "<|im_start|>system\n"
+            "You are a search relevance expert who can determine a ranking of the passages based on how relevant they are to the query. "  # noqa: E501
+            "If the query is a question, how relevant a passage is depends on how well it answers the question. "  # noqa: E501
+            "If not, try to analyze the intent of the query and assess how well each passage satisfies the intent. "  # noqa: E501
+            "If an instruction is provided, you should follow the instruction when determining the ranking."  # noqa: E501
+            "<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n"
+        )
+        suffix = "<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        if no_thinking:
+            suffix += "<think>\n\n</think>\n\n"
+
+        doc_emb_token = special_tokens["doc_embed_token"]
+        query_emb_token = special_tokens["query_embed_token"]
+
+        prompt = (
+            f"I will provide you with {len(docs)} passages, each indicated by a numerical identifier. "  # noqa: E501
+            f"Rank the passages based on their relevance to query: {query}\n"
+        )
+
+        if instruction:
+            prompt += f"<instruct>\n{instruction}\n</instruct>\n"
+
+        doc_prompts = [
+            f'<passage id="{i}">\n{doc}{doc_emb_token}\n</passage>'
+            for i, doc in enumerate(docs)
+        ]
+        prompt += "\n".join(doc_prompts) + "\n"
+        prompt += f"<query>\n{query}{query_emb_token}\n</query>"
+
+        return prefix + prompt + suffix
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def ensure_str(data: Sequence[Any]) -> list[str]:
+        text: list[str] = []
+        for prompt in data:
+            if not isinstance(prompt, str):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "The JinaForRanking model only supports text as input."
+                )
+            text.append(prompt)
+        return text
+
+
+class JinaRankingIOProcessor(LateInteractionIOProcessor, JinaRankingIOProcessorMixin):
+    name = "jina-reranking-scoring"
+    pooling_task: PoolingTask = "token_embed"
+
+    def _pre_process(
+        self,
+        scoring_data: ScoringData,
+        tok_params: TokenizeParams,
+        prompt_extras: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+    ) -> Sequence[EngineInput]:
+        queries = self.ensure_str(scoring_data.data_1)
+        docs = self.ensure_str(scoring_data.data_2)
+
+        if len(queries) == 1:
+            prompts = [self.format_docs_prompts_func(query=queries[0], docs=docs)]
+        else:
+            prompts = [
+                self.format_docs_prompts_func(query=q, docs=[d])
+                for q, d in zip(queries, docs)
+            ]
+
+        return self._preprocess_completion_offline(
+            prompts=prompts, tok_params=tok_params, prompt_extras=prompt_extras
+        )
+
+    def _post_process(self, outputs: list[PoolingRequestOutput], n_queries: int):
+        final_res_batch: list[PoolingRequestOutput] = []
+
+        for i in range(len(outputs)):
+            embeds = outputs[i].outputs.data.float()
+
+            # The JinaForRanking model concatenates docs first, then query.
+            # Let's stay consistent with this novel design.
+            query_embeds = embeds[-1]
+            doc_embeds = embeds[:-1]
+
+            scores = F.cosine_similarity(query_embeds, doc_embeds)
+
+            for score in scores:
+                final_res_batch.append(
+                    PoolingRequestOutput(
+                        request_id=outputs[i].request_id,
+                        outputs=score,
+                        prompt_token_ids=outputs[i].prompt_token_ids,
+                        num_cached_tokens=outputs[i].num_cached_tokens,
+                        finished=True,
+                    )
+                )
+        return final_res_batch
+
+
 ScoringIOProcessors: dict[str, type[ScoringIOProcessor]] = {
     p.name: p
     for p in [
         BiEncoderIOProcessor,
         LateInteractionIOProcessor,
+        JinaRankingIOProcessor,
         FlashLateInteractionIOProcessor,
         CrossEncoderIOProcessor,
     ]
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/serving.py b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/serving.py
index fc52075611e..571fd981f3b 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/serving.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/pooling/scoring/serving.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse, Response
 
 from vllm import PoolingParams
-from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.engine.protocol import EngineClient
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.engine.protocol import UsageInfo
 from vllm.entrypoints.pooling.base.io_processor import PoolingIOProcessor
@@ -42,25 +41,23 @@ class ServingScores(PoolingServing):
         enable_flash_late_interaction: bool = True,
         **kwargs,
     ):
-        self.score_type = engine_client.model_config.score_type
+        self.io_processor_name: str = engine_client.model_config.score_type
         self.enable_flash_late_interaction = (
-            self.score_type == "late-interaction" and enable_flash_late_interaction
+            self.io_processor_name == "late-interaction"
+            and enable_flash_late_interaction
         )
 
+        if self.enable_flash_late_interaction:
+            self.io_processor_name = "flash-late-interaction"
+
+        if engine_client.model_config.architecture == "JinaForRanking":
+            self.io_processor_name = "jina-reranking-scoring"
+            self.enable_flash_late_interaction = False
+
         super().__init__(engine_client, *args, **kwargs)
 
-    def init_io_processor(
-        self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, *args, **kwargs
-    ) -> PoolingIOProcessor:
-        model_config = vllm_config.model_config
-
-        score_type: str = model_config.score_type
-        if self.enable_flash_late_interaction:
-            score_type = "flash-late-interaction"
-
-        assert score_type in ScoringIOProcessors
-        processor_cls = ScoringIOProcessors[score_type]
-        return processor_cls(vllm_config, *args, **kwargs)
+    def init_io_processor(self, *args, **kwargs) -> PoolingIOProcessor:
+        return ScoringIOProcessors[self.io_processor_name](*args, **kwargs)
 
     async def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs) -> Response:
         if not self.enable_flash_late_interaction:
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/methods.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/methods.py
index f242d215d7b..9ee6e8527c9 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/methods.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/methods.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class StepPool(AllPool):
         ):
             # for unfinished chunked prefill
             if data is None:
-                pass
+                pooled_data.append(None)
             else:
                 step_tag_id = pooling_param.step_tag_id
                 returned_token_ids = pooling_param.returned_token_ids
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/poolers.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/poolers.py
index c56970fcaba..6868f1ce282 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/poolers.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler/tokwise/poolers.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class TokenPooler(Pooler):
     def __init__(
         self,
         pooling: TokenPoolingMethod | TokenPoolingFn,
-        head: TokenPoolerHead | TokenPoolingHeadFn,
+        head: TokenPoolerHead | TokenPoolingHeadFn | None = None,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
 
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class TokenPooler(Pooler):
         pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata,
     ) -> TokenPoolerOutput:
         pooled_data = self.pooling(hidden_states, pooling_metadata)
-        pooled_data = self.head(pooled_data, pooling_metadata)
+        if self.head is not None:
+            pooled_data = self.head(pooled_data, pooling_metadata)
         return pooled_data
 
 
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/config.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/config.py
index 22d300a7ebf..6e511f4f0a3 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/config.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/config.py
@@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ class JambaForSequenceClassificationConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
             pooler_config.use_activation = False
 
 
+class JinaForRankingConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
+    @staticmethod
+    def verify_and_update_model_config(model_config: "ModelConfig") -> None:
+        model_config.hf_config.embedding_size = 512
+
+
 class JinaRobertaModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
     @staticmethod
     def verify_and_update_model_config(model_config: "ModelConfig") -> None:
@@ -612,6 +618,7 @@ MODELS_CONFIG_MAP: dict[str, type[VerifyAndUpdateConfig]] = {
     "GteNewForSequenceClassification": GteNewModelConfig,
     "GteNewModel": GteNewModelConfig,
     "JambaForSequenceClassification": JambaForSequenceClassificationConfig,
+    "JinaForRanking": JinaForRankingConfig,
     "JinaVLForRanking": JinaVLForSequenceClassificationConfig,
     "LlamaBidirectionalForSequenceClassification": LlamaBidirectionalConfig,
     "LlamaBidirectionalModel": LlamaBidirectionalConfig,
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/jina.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/jina.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..980502191dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/jina.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+# Adapted from https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-reranker-v3/blob/main/modeling.py
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tasks import PoolingTask
+from vllm.v1.pool.metadata import PoolingMetadata
+
+from ..layers.pooler import DispatchPooler
+from ..layers.pooler.tokwise import (
+    StepPool,
+    TokenPooler,
+    TokenPoolingMethodOutputItem,
+)
+from .interfaces import SupportsLateInteraction
+from .qwen3 import Qwen3Model
+from .utils import AutoWeightsLoader, maybe_prefix
+
+
+class JinaForRanking(nn.Module, SupportsLateInteraction):
+    is_pooling_model = True
+
+    def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
+        super().__init__()
+        config = vllm_config.model_config.hf_config
+        quant_config = vllm_config.quant_config
+
+        self.config = config
+        self.projector_dim: int = config.embedding_size
+
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
+        self.quant_config = quant_config
+        self.model = Qwen3Model(
+            vllm_config=vllm_config, prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "model")
+        )
+
+        self.projector = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.hidden_size // 2, bias=False),
+            nn.ReLU(),
+            nn.Linear(config.hidden_size // 2, self.projector_dim, bias=False),
+        )
+
+        self.pooler = DispatchPooler(
+            {
+                "token_embed": TokenPooler(
+                    pooling=JinaForRankingPool(self.projector),
+                )
+            }
+        )
+
+    def embed_input_ids(self, input_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.model.embed_input_ids(input_ids)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.Tensor | None,
+        positions: torch.Tensor,
+        intermediate_tensors: IntermediateTensors | None = None,
+        inputs_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor | IntermediateTensors:
+        hidden_states = self.model(
+            input_ids, positions, intermediate_tensors, inputs_embeds
+        )
+        return hidden_states
+
+    def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]) -> set[str]:
+        loader = AutoWeightsLoader(self, skip_prefixes=(["lm_head."]))
+        return loader.load_weights(weights)
+
+
+class JinaForRankingPool(StepPool):
+    def __init__(self, projector: nn.Sequential):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.doc_token_id = 151670
+        self.query_token_id = 151671
+        self.projector = projector
+
+    def get_supported_tasks(self) -> set[PoolingTask]:
+        return {"token_embed"}
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata,
+    ) -> list[TokenPoolingMethodOutputItem]:
+        pooled_data_lst = super().forward(hidden_states, pooling_metadata)
+        prompt_token_ids = pooling_metadata.get_prompt_token_ids()
+
+        embeds_list = list[torch.Tensor | None]()
+        for data, token_ids in zip(pooled_data_lst, prompt_token_ids):
+            # for unfinished chunked prefill
+            if data is None:
+                embeds_list.append(None)
+            else:
+                docs_indexes = torch.where(torch.eq(token_ids, self.doc_token_id))[0]
+                query_indexes = torch.where(torch.eq(token_ids, self.query_token_id))[0]
+
+                # The JinaForRanking model concatenates docs first, then query.
+                # Let's stay consistent with this novel design.
+                indexes = torch.cat([docs_indexes, query_indexes])
+                embeds = self.projector(data[indexes])
+                embeds_list.append(embeds)
+
+        return embeds_list
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
index 66ded7e554b..948618d82a0 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ _LATE_INTERACTION_MODELS = {
     "ColBERTModernBertModel": ("colbert", "ColBERTModernBertModel"),
     "ColBERTJinaRobertaModel": ("colbert", "ColBERTJinaRobertaModel"),
     "ColBERTLfm2Model": ("colbert", "ColBERTLfm2Model"),
+    "JinaForRanking": ("jina", "JinaForRanking"),
     # [Multimodal]
     "ColModernVBertForRetrieval": ("colmodernvbert", "ColModernVBertForRetrieval"),
     "ColPaliForRetrieval": ("colpali", "ColPaliModel"),