Behaviour Lead Mentor
Harris Academy Orpington, Kent, BR5 4LG15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time + two weeks; actual salary £30,964-£31,893 (40 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week term time, 38.5 hours per week in holiday periods)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,912-£34,929
Pay scale
- Grade 6 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Behaviour Lead Mentor to join our strong and supportive academy team;someone with great behaviour management and mentoring skills and better mentoring skills, to workclosely with students.
You will need motivation, passion, patience and the ability to emotionally support children from various backgrounds and situations.
The ability to communicate effectively with students, staff and parents is imperative in ensuring that effective pastoral support is provided for all our pupils.
The role will be 8am to 4.15pm in term time, with 10 days worked in the holiday period (8.00am-4.00pm) to support reception and the summer school (GCSE results week).
The successful candidate will have:
- GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above, or equivalent
- Knowledge of the academy behaviour for learning policy
- Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
- Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
- Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course
- Two years' experience of working in an inner-city school or educational establishment
- Experience of dealing successfully with a range of behaviour issues
- Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent behaviour for learning
- Experience of working with families
- Experience of supervising a group of students for detentions, referral and internal exclusion as appropriate
- Experience of working with challenging students and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully
What the school offers its staff
Harris Academy Orpington opened in September 2016, joining the highly successful Federation of Harris academies in London. We are on our journey to outstanding and are ambitious and looking forward to an exciting future as we highlight our work as aHealth Science Specialistschool, with students being given access to recognised professional qualifications and careers.
At HarrisAcademy Orpington, we have the most incredible facilities, staff and students and we are very proud of the work that our students do here. We have developed a curriculum that is ambitious and broad. We believe people need to nurture an appreciation of human creativity and achievement and have designed a curriculum that does just that.
We aim to ensure that every student is inspired and supported to achieve his/her personal best and learning comes first. Our motto is “Together We Can” and if you are interested in joining us, we would be very pleased to meet you.
Benefits
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance (usually £2,000 for Inner London and £1,500 for Outer London), a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Teachers Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Flexible working opportunities
We are committed to fostering a positive and supportive working environment for our staff, recognising that achieving a balance between professional and personal responsibilities is essential. We understand that each individual's circumstances are unique, which is why we offer flexible working options that can be adapted to meet the needs of both the academy and our employees.
Further information about the job
The purpose of your role will be:
- To lead on the Internal Exclusion/Repair and Restore room
- To be responsible for supervising students internally excluded
- To liaise with the AP for behaviour in relation to students attending the Internal Exclusion Unit and their re-integration back into mainstream lessons
- To liaise with teaching staff to ensure appropriate work is set and appropriate provision is in place
- To liaise with parents/ carers and relevant APs and subject staff to ensure smooth transition to and from internal exclusion
- To be responsible for maintaining a calm and purposeful learning environment whilst in Repair and Restore or Internal Exclusion
- To ensure a calm, quiet and purposeful atmosphere is in the Internal Exclusion/Repair and Restore Room
- To reduce potential permanent exclusion by offering an alternative curriculum which includes rigorous behaviour for learning intervention.
- To carry out administrative tasks for students in Repair and Restore
- To develop links with external agencies to set up a wide range of different behaviour intervention programmes.
- To develop strategies which aim to develop students' mental wellbeing
- To mentor pupils where relevant with behaviour concerns, especially in regard to those on Behaviour Boundary 5 or Behaviour Boundary 6
- To support the consistent implementation of the academy Behaviour for Learning policy.
- To be responsible for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the academy, this to include organising line-ups where appropriate, ensuring that students enter the building in full academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures
- To work with the other members of the behaviour team as a unit to achieve the Academy's vision for outstanding behaviour.
- To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the academy Leadership Team, for example, taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues.
- To ensure that all issues that relate to student safety such as allegations of bullying are passed on to academy colleagues, in a timely manner, for further investigation as required
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
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View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Harris Academy Orpington
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 501 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Academy Orpington website
- Email address
- info@harrisorpington.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01689 819219
Harris Academy Orpington opened in September 2016, joining the highly successful Federation of Harris academies in London. We are on our journey to outstanding, we are ambitious and looking forward to an exciting future. We believe that every student can and should achieve their full potential and our commitment is one of ensuring our students develop a love of learning, a passion for enquiry and a dedication to being the best that they can be.We aim to ensure that every student is inspired and supported to achieve his/her personal best and learning comes first. Our motto is “Together We Can” and if you are interested in joining us, we would be very pleased to meet you.
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