Behaviour Mentor
Kingsbury High School, London, NW9 9JR9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
24 February 2025
Closing date
9 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,632.00 Annually (Actual)
Behaviour Mentor job summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
Main Purpose of Job
- To monitor the school corridors and grounds during lesson times to ensure punctuality, good behaviour and safety.
- To supervise students as they are commuting between sites and ensure that they are staying off the road and behaving appropriately on a public footpath during break and lunch times.
- To supervise entry to and exit from the lower school
- To support with on-call
- To support with mentoring students
- To contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school.
Duties and Responsibilities
- To monitor the school corridors and grounds on the Lower School site during lesson times to ensure good attendance, punctuality to class, positive behaviour and safety.
- To ensure that students not in class present themselves for their lessons.
- To escort students referred out of lessons to the Reset Room.
- To escort students to the medical bay where necessary or call for first aid support as appropriate.
- To help control students returning to lessons immediately following break and lunch.
- To report any untoward circumstances to the Assistant Headteacher.
- To supervise students leaving after school and clear the playground and site.
- To act as a First Aider within the school and support colleagues through a rota system.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Experience of working with young people in an educational setting
Ability to work affectively with students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds
Good skills of empathy, listening communication and responding with appropriate language to build rapport with young people
Ability to work independently and autonomously
Ability to work well as a team member
Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a positive, professional attitude
Able to deal calmly and effectively with difficult situations and challenging behaviour
Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively
A good working knowledge of computer based office systems, e.g. word processing, email, internet, Powerpoint
Equal Opportunities & Safeguarding
A commitment to Equal Opportunities and an understanding of the implications of working in a fully inclusive school
A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students
A clear understanding of current educational issues and developments and their likely impact on teaching and learning
Education and Professional Qualifications Essential to the Post
Completion of secondary education to a satisfactory standard
Current First Aid certificate or willingness to undertake First Aid training
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Kingsbury High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2008 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Kingsbury High School website (opens in new tab)
Kingsbury High School is a vibrant learning environment with a strong community ethos.
Prospective candidates are welcome to come and look around the school to see for yourself what makes Kingsbury High different. As a large 12 form entry 11-18 split site school we are situated in an inner London location, but with an out of London feel – surrounded by parkland with large playing fields and great local amenities, excellent transport links to enable easy access from central London and fringe areas. Our school is truly diverse in its makeup, whilst united as one family working to achieve the best for all our students.
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