Behaviour Support Manager
Saltley Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5RX14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 October 2025 at 10am
Date listed
26 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 5 - £41,511 - £49,764 (£40,100 - £48,073 pro rata) – Pay Award Pending - TTO + 3 weeks
Additional allowances
Grade 5 - £41,511 - £49,764 (£40,100 - £48,073 pro rata) – Pay Award Pending - TTO + 3 weeks
Behaviour Support Manager job summary
As Behaviour Support Manager, you will work closely with senior leaders to lead on behaviour systems across the academy. You will manage day-to-day interventions including detentions, suspensions, on-call responses, and managed moves. A key element of your role will be leading our Reflection Hub, mentoring students and delivering targeted support to those experiencing behavioural challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and coordinate behaviour management systems, including detentions, on-calls, and suspensions.
Mentor and support students in the Reflection Hub to help them re-engage with learning.
Oversee reintegration plans and alternative provision transitions.
Work collaboratively with families, external agencies, and pastoral teams.
Monitor student progress and behaviour data, using insights to inform interventions.
Promote a consistent and restorative approach to behaviour across the school.
What We’re Looking For:
Experience working with young people in a behaviour or pastoral setting.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships.
A calm, consistent and compassionate approach to behaviour management.
A commitment to inclusion and safeguarding.
The ability to lead by example and work effectively under pressure.
In return, we will offer you:
- A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment.
- An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as [the CIPD or Coaching via our Apprenticeship Levy-amend examples based on roles].
- Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance process.
- A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
- Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.
- Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
- Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
- Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
- Generous annual leave entitlement based on length of service, starting at 30 days pro-rata, rising to 33 at 5 years’ plus service and 35 following 10 years’ plus service. This excludes an additional 2-week paid compulsory closure at Christmas, for which additional days’ leave are gained.
- Onsite parking at all schools.
NB - CVs will not be accepted
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note that applications must be the creation of the candidate applying. While technology, including artificial intelligence, may be used to help the candidate select certain phraseology, if substantial use of AI is used, the application will be disregarded.
As part of our recruitment process, we carry out rigorous online searches in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
We value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an outstanding opportunity to work at Saltley Academy as a Behaviour Support Manager.
We promise to treat all candidates fairly, consistently and with respect throughout the application, assessment, and selection process.
We are also “happy to talk flexible working” subject to the operational requirements of the role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
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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
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 Saltley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1380 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Saltley Academy website
About Our School
We are proud not just of our examination results, but also our commitment to valuing each individual/pupil, celebrating all the cultures of our city and country and being the best we can be.
Our ‘Academy Pledge’ as a Rights Respecting School is as follows; “Saltley Academy is founded on the principle of all respecting the dignity and rights of each and every individual. Respectful relationships are at the core of this learning community, which will enable our young people to respect all whom they meet and to understand and develop the skills they need to embrace the responsibilities of being an outstanding learner and an active, contributing and content citizen.”
Location: Saltley Academy, [Birmingham]
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