Behaviour Mentor
Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich, London, SE22 0AT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only: actual salary £34,126 - £36,207 (38 weeks per year, 42.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £35,814 - £37,998
Pay scale
- Grade 6 (Inner 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 an experienced Behaviour Mentor to join our existing team in supporting our students at Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich.
We would like to hear from you if you 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
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
We encourage our students to be critical thinkers and promote these skills throughout the curriculum. A student at Harris Boys' Academy will learn how to engage critically with foreign affairs, religion and society, issues of citizenship and the media, so they acquire the skills, and recognise the value of, thinking for yourself and thinking in a well-reasoned manner.
We are very lucky to have an amazing staff team who work together, and a body of professionals who are striving to be the very best they can be. Our staff are on board, want to change futures and want to be better at what they do. Our students buy into this idea and when you have these two points together, you can make wonderful things happen. This is shown through our outcomes and if you speak to the boys and the parents of this school community.
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 details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the consistent implementation of our behaviour policy
- Taking responsibility for the calm and purposeful movement of students into/out of the academy and around the academy between lessons
- Working with the other members of the behaviour team to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch
- Managing detentions every afternoon.
- Acting as the liaison between the academy and the local community (including the Police) for any aspect of behaviour issues arising during the academy day, such as truancy sweeps and liaising with local shopkeepers
- Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club
- Ensuring that students enter the building in full academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures
- Ensuring that faculty points are awarded as appropriate
- Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet academy standards
- Designing and delivering, alongside the SLT, a variety of agreed enrichment and sporting activities
- Following through any behavioural issues, such as taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues
- Mentoring students on PSPs, including supporting in lessons if required and presenting progress reports at review meetings
- Preparing students' files for disciplinary panels or exclusion hearings
- Ensuring all student safety issues, such as allegations of bullying, are passed on to academy colleagues for further investigation as required
- Supervising students internally excluded, including liaising with the AP for behaviour to deliver the curriculum offer and supporting re-integration back into mainstream lessons
- Liaising with teaching staff to ensure appropriate work is set and appropriate provision is in place
- Liaising with parents/carers and relevant staff to ensure smooth transition to and from internal exclusion
- Maintaining a calm and purposeful learning environment;
- Following up on any truancy or attendance concerns;
- Reducing potential permanent exclusion by offering an alternative curriculum which includes rigorous behaviour for learning intervention
- Being a role model for students internally excluded and providing them with clear expectations of conduct, in line with those for all academy students
- Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet academy code of conduct while internally excluded
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 877 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich website
- Email address
- info@harrisdulwichboys.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 299 5300
Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is judged Outstanding by Ofsted. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy. The academy’s specialisms are Enterprise and Sport with a ‘can-do’ ethos of always improving upon your personal best. We have now reached our full capacity of 750 students across Years 7 to 11 and we work in partnership with Harris Federation Post 16. In 2017, we achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.73, which places us in the top 6% of schools nationally.
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