Behaviour Support Assistant
Torpoint Community College, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2NH11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2026
Closing date
19 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 30 hours a week, Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £17,069 pa
Pay scale
- Grade C
What skills and experience we're looking for
Torpoint Community College is seeking to appoint an exceptional Behaviour Support Assistant to join our dedicated Behaviour Support Team (BST).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring that every student is able to learn, thrive and achieve in a safe, supportive and purposeful environment. Working closely with students, families, teaching staff and pastoral leaders, you will help remove barriers to learning and support students in developing the behaviours, resilience and confidence needed for success.
The successful candidate will be a calm, resilient and highly organised professional who is passionate about supporting young people. You will work across the College, responding to behavioural incidents, investigating concerns, supporting students in our internal inclusion provision, mentoring vulnerable students and contributing to the College's safeguarding and attendance systems.
What the school offers its staff
- Friendly and experienced colleagues who work collaboratively and support one another.
- Opportunities for professional development and training, including support for staff wishing to develop their careers in education.
- A varied and rewarding role working with motivated young people across a range of subjects.
- A commitment to staff wellbeing, including access to wellbeing resources and employee support programmes.
- Opportunities to contribute to the wider life of the school and make a positive difference to students' learning and development.
- A school culture that promotes respect, inclusion and high aspirations for all.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Torpoint Community College
- School type
- Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 739 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Torpoint Community College website
- Email address
- jones.jo@torpoint.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01752 812511
Torpoint Community College (TCC) is situated in South-East Cornwall and is very much a part of the local community. Due to its proximity, it also enjoys close links with the urban area of Plymouth city. This results in a rich mix of urban and rural, village and city-based students and the College is very much an economic driver for the area.
The majority of students attending the College live in Torpoint or on the Rame Peninsula. It also has students from Plymouth who travel from Plymouth via the chain ferry over the River Tamar. The current number on roll is approximately 720, including 50 in the Sixth Form. The College’s Post 16 provision offers a small, but thriving, learning environment for its students with a wide range of A Level subjects on offer.
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