Behaviour Support Officer
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 March 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
- £30,572.00 - £32,283.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 23 to SCP 25
Behaviour Support Officer job summary
Behaviour Support Officer, 40 hpw, Mon-Fri, term time plus 3 days.
Grace College is a place of boundless potential and we are seeking enthusiastic and proactive individuals to help support our students in achieving excellent attendance and becoming successful learners. This is a wonderful opportunity to join our school and help to ensure that our students consistently demonstrate respect, responsibility and resilience through rigorous routines and high behaviour standards.
As a Behaviour Support Officer, you will be responsible to the Senior Behaviour Lead for:
Ensuring that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline, including before and after the college day through the management of relentless routines and social time procedures including:
Carrying out duties at the start and end of the day to ensure that students enter and leave the site, safely and calmly feeling welcomed by all staff.
Ensuring that relentless routines are followed at the start of the day and lesson changeover, managing the corridors to ensure that students arrive at lessons on time and that if they are late, they are escorted to the lesson and this is recorded.
Ensuring that procedures at social times are followed and that student conduct is safe and orderly, ensuring that any poor behaviour is followed up immediately.
Supporting staff and students when things go wrong through the operation of behaviour support processes including:
Being a proactive presence in departments, monitoring student behaviour in lessons and supporting staff to address minor issues before they escalate.
Responding to first response alerts so that students are led skillfully to reset their behaviour and prevent removal from lesson. When removal is required ensure that students are taken to the behaviour support rooms and are ready to reflect.
Carrying out investigations into behaviour incidents and summarising findings in a report when suspension may be required.
Managing the detention system so that students are held to account for their behaviour and have the opportunity to reflect and make amends for this during this time.
Contributing to the reduction in suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised intervention and support for behaviour, including:
Overseeing the behaviour support rooms so what when these spaces are used to address student behaviour, the climate is characterised by high expectations and that reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents occurring.
Monitor daily behaviour data to identify actions that can be taken early to address disruptive behaviour so that it does not become persistent, including the management of Individual Behaviour Plans.
Building positive relationships with parents and carers to support students to make positive choices and improve behaviour over time, ensuring communication is timely and accurate.
In addition to the responsibilities outlined above the Behaviour Support Officer will be required to communicate with parents and carers where necessary to discuss behaviour incidents or concerns, ensure that parents are kept informed regarding more serious incidents or investigations.
Please refer to the full Job Description for more details.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
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 Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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