Behaviour Support Manager
Sir James Smith's School, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9UJ19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
15 September 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
21 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,810.00 - £32,655.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary is £23,700 to £27,828 per annum
Behaviour Support Manager job summary
Sir James Smith’s School is looking to appoint a new colleague to lead our behaviour support team. The successful applicant will demonstrate a positive and adaptable approach to ensuring all students achieve excellent outcomes.
You will be expected to work alongside teaching and non-teaching colleagues to support students in the school’s behaviour setting called ‘Reset’ and ‘Reflection’ and work alongside pastoral colleagues supporting students who find it difficult to meet the classroom learning expectations.
The successful applicant will be working with students who present classroom behaviour needs and require support and guidance to achieve curriculum success. It is therefore crucial that you can demonstrate experience working with secondary-aged students and ideally those who have found it difficult to positively engage with a school or similar setting.
The students of Sir James Smith’s have huge opportunities ahead of them. They have high expectations for their futures and understand the need for an outstanding education. This appointment will specifically support those students who require additional support to be successful in their futures based on excellent GCSE outcomes.
A collaborative approach and the ability to work with colleagues positively is essential, alongside high levels of professionalism and expectations for oneself and our students.
The main duties of the role will be:
- Manage ‘Reset’ and ‘Reflection’ provision.
- Deliver and manage small classroom learning episodes to students.
- Support colleagues’ delivery of the Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 curriculum in ‘Reset’ and ‘Reflection’.
The core skills for the role will include:
- Confidence to work with a range of students on an individual basis through to small group work and promote engagement and positive behaviours.
- Understanding the impact socio-economic factors can have and how lived experiences can influence student’s ambition.
- Collaboration and co-operation with students, colleagues and school leaders.
- Personal drive to develop strategies and techniques to support individual students and groups of students.
- Levels of professionalism and an outlook that match the school’s aspiration and allows all students to leave with excellent outcomes.
- Qualifications or experience in working within pastoral support and behaviour work would be advantageous to this role.
To see a copy of our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, please click here.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir James Smith's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all pre-employment checks necessary to meet Safer Recruitment requirements, including a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and references.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Sir James Smith's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 605 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir James Smith's School website
Sir James Smith’s is part of North Cornwall Learning Trust. Apart from being a ‘Good’ school, Sir Jim’s is also a great place to work. Visitors, including Ofsted, comment on the friendly and supportive atmosphere. Staff and students are happy and enjoy their time at school.
We are a smaller than average co-educational comprehensive school, serving a large rural hinterland in North Cornwall. It’s a fantastic place to live if you like the outdoors. Our extensive rural catchment area of 100 square miles includes 8 partner primary schools though we attract students from many others. The dispersed settlement pattern means approximately 70% of students travel daily by bus. North Cornwall is one of the least sparsely populated areas in England and Wales thanks to the glorious Bodmin Moor.
At present we have 38 teachers, and 40 non-teaching staff including 4 technicians, 1 Librarian, 8 admin assistants and 7 classroom assistants. The Local Governance Committee work closely with staff, as do various support agencies. The small size of the school means that we all know the students very well and staff work together effectively. This is a school on a humane scale where personal relationships matter.
We have a "continental day". This means an earlier start - at 8.10 am for staff and 8.25 am for students. Students have one year assembly per week. There are 5 one-hour lessons and 2 breaks of 20 and 30 minutes. The main part of the day ends at 2.30 pm. On Mondays there are meetings; on Wednesdays Tuesdays and Thursdays, extra-curricular activities and late buses; on Fridays many staff go home a little earlier!
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