Behaviour Support Assistant

The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  15 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual £20,568 per annum (Full Time Equivalent: £25,979) (Pay Review pending)

Behaviour Support Assistant job summary

Following a strategic review of Academy priorities, we are seeking to enhance and develop our Behaviour Support Team. We are seeking to recruit a number of key roles to build upon already good foundations and strengthen further, capability and effectiveness of behaviour support within the Academy. We are seeking an experienced Behaviour Support Assistant, with a proven track record of effectively supporting the positive modification of student behaviours in a secondary setting.

The Behaviour Support Assistant will be responsible for triaging and recording behaviour incidences. They will ensure that behaviour incidences are recorded effectively on our school MIS system and parental communication is timely. They will work collaboratively with our Behaviour, Pastoral, Well-Being teams, as well as our Inclusion Managers and Heads of Year, in addition to the Academy’s Leadership Team to ensure that key information is shared, and robust record keeping is maintained.

This role will be on a contract of 35 hours per week, Term Time Only (39 weeks)

Salary: Actual £20,568 per annum (Full Time Equivalent: £25,979) (Pay Review pending) TBOWA Support Staff Scale 19

We would be delighted to welcome you on a tour of the academy and answer any questions that you may have, prior to applying.

As Behaviour Support Assistant, you will be welcomed into an exceptional team of professionals to:

• To ensure the smooth organisation and day to day running of the Reset room and triage
• To support the work of the pastoral team, including Heads of Year and Deputy Vice Principals
• To direct/refer students to the relevant person depending upon presenting need through triage
• To liaise with students who have been sent to Reset, support them to reflect, complete the consequence and return to class
• To be the administrative lead for the Academy’s Reset Room, ensuring referrals are logged on, reflections completed, follows up achieved
• To contribute, with a preventative emphasis, to student progress, attendance and the link with emotional and behavioural wellbeing by skilled co-ordination and organisation of space and time
• To generate data and analysis from the school’s MIS relating to behaviour and exclusions
• To work alongside the pastoral and inclusion teams, developing student profiles, maintaining student support plans, attending meetings when requested

The successful candidate will:

• Have strong administrative and organisational skills with an attention to detail.
• Have an ability to interpret and present behaviour data to inform decision making
• Have the confidence and experience to work with challenging behaviour, maintaining the ability to remain calm, patient and supportive in challenging situations.
• Be passionate about supporting young people’s Mental Health
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Be IT literate, with experience working with MS Office Suite and Databases
• Have a willingness to work as part of the Behaviour Support Team and to be flexible according to the needs of students
• Have a calm and professional presence in challenging situations

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.

We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:

• Generous employer pension contribution at 23.6% of basic salary equating to £5,210 per annum
• Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
• Excellent teaching and office facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
• Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
• Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance

To apply for this Behaviour Administrator and Assistant role, please visit the vacancies section of our website to complete an application form: https://www.tbowa.org/staff/-vacancies/support-staff

Please email completed application forms to recruitment@tbowa.org, addressing your covering letter to Mr Paul McKeown, Principal.

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About The Bishop of Winchester Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1178 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bishop-of-winchester-academy

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).

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