5 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    2 June 2025

  • Closing date

    10 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    13 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37.5 hours per week (08:00 - 16:00 Monday - Friday), term-time only

Contract type

Fixed term - Two years

Full-time equivalent salary

£36,124 per annum pro rata

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Understands the statutory requirements of legislation concerning Safeguarding, including Child Protection, Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety and SEN
  • Understands the SEN Code of Conduct and its practical application
  • Previous experience of working in a secondary school setting
  • Previous experience of working with children with additional needs or relationship seeking behaviour
  • Knowledge / experience of inter-agency work
  • Proficient computer skills, Microsoft packages
  • Strongly developed organisational skills
  • Ability to use data to drive improvement
  • Ability to think on feet, work on own initiative and find solutions to problems
  • Good interpersonal skills with strong two - way communication
  • Ability to prioritise own work to meet deadlines and ensure most effective use of time
  • Ability to work as a member of a team and be accountable
  • Ability to handle conflict and change with optimism and resilience
  • Ability to make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school
  • Promote an ethos and culture that supports the school’s Relationships & Behaviour/SEND policy, promoting good outcomes for students with additional barriers
  • Desire to work with pupils with challenging and sometimes aggressive behaviour
  • Demands ambitious standards for all students; belief in the potential of everyone to learn and develop
  • Values all children equally
  • Conducts oneself with humour, diplomacy and integrity
  • Motivation to work in a school with children and young people
  • Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment
  • 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or equivalent, including English and Maths
  • Further qualifications in a relevant field e.g. Social work, teaching, Pastoral work, classroom support
  • Willingness to take part in appropriate training and personal and professional development, so that practice is kept up to date and effective by reflecting on own practice.
  • Ability and willingness to work and travel across different schools on different days of the week

What the school offers its staff

An opportunity to:

  • make a meaningful impact on students’ lives.

  • be part of a collaborative and innovative team dedicated to fostering inclusive approaches.
  • play a key role in the growth and development of Compass Education, helping to shape and refine behaviour support strategies.
  • work across a range of schools in Sheffield, gaining diverse experience while making a meaningful impact on students' lives.
  • explore and implement cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to ensure our interventions are as effective and supportive as possible.

Further details about the role

We are looking to appoint to the following post from 2nd June 2025:

Behaviour Intervention Leader x 3

37.5 hours per week/term-time only/Fixed Term for two years

NJC Spinal column point 26: £36,124 per annum pro rata

(actual salary £31,491 per annum with under 5 years’ service)

We are looking to make three appointments to this post.

These roles are an exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to:

  • make a difference to the lives of students; supporting them, their families and our schools.
  • assist in the development and delivery of targeted intervention programmes that proactively support inclusion and behaviour improvement.
  • be part of a collaborative and innovative team dedicated to fostering inclusive approaches.
  • be based out of Notre Dame High School, Sheffield, with work across multiple secondary schools within a Compass network hub.

Applications from those with prior experience in secondary schools, specialist and alternative provision will be warmly welcomed.

For more information about the Compass Network please visit us at www.compasseducation.co.uk

Notre Dame is a Catholic school with a strong ethos at its heart. All staff are expected to uphold and contribute to the ethos of the school, which is what makes it a special place to work.

We are particularly keen to reflect the diverse nature of our student community in our staff; we welcome applications from all qualified applicants and strongly believe that diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact to our whole school community.

For further details and an application pack please visit www.notredame-high.co.uk/uncategorized/current-vacancies or telephone the school. Please return your application form and Consent to Obtain References form to recruitment@notredame-high.co.uk

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: 12 noon on Thursday 10th April 2025

Shortlisting will take place on: Monday 14th April 2025

Interviews will take place on: Thursday 17th April 2025

Notre Dame High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. In addition, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a self-disclosure is required for applicants shortlisted for interview.

Commitment to safeguarding

Notre Dame High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. In addition, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a self-disclosure is required for applicants shortlisted for interview.

Notre Dame expects all candidates to familiarise themselves with our Safeguarding Policy which can be found on the school website at www.notredame-high.co.uk/about-the-school/school-policies

Applying for the job

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Additional documents

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About Notre Dame High School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1487 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01142302536

Notre Dame is a Catholic school with a strong ethos at its heart. All staff are expected to uphold and contribute to the ethos of the school, which is what makes it a special place to work.

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