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Behaviour Support Officer

Mount Grace School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1EZ

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• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  1 April 2023 at 5pm

• Date listed

  1 February 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
  • We are looking to employ a Behaviour Support Officer to join our vibrant, motivated team. This is a permanent contract based on 5 days a week (37 hours per week). This is a Term time + 1 week (INSET days) basis contract starting ASAP.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: H5 plus Fringe [pro-rata]

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Behaviour Support Officer will work directly with pupils to provide one to one or group support when needed. This will include planned sessions as well as responding to situations as they arise. The Behaviour Support Officer is responsible for implementing the Behaviour Policy, contributing and promoting a positive and considerate behaviour culture that is understood and adhered to by the whole school community.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• To organise and administer Student Support Centre liaising with staff to ensure pupils have work;
• Maximise resources and strategies to ensure that pupils behavioural and emotional needs are being met and they are able to engage in learning effectively.
• To support other areas of the Pastoral team
• Support the Pastoral Team with other provisions such as the daily detention systems as requested by SLT line manager.

What the school offers its staff

Mount Grace was one of the first purpose built mixed comprehensive schools in the country and occupies 17 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. We are a rapidly improving, truly inclusive school with approximately 600 students including over 75 in our sixth form. We have a genuine partnership with local people and we are the community school of Potters Bar and the surrounding villages. We are an inclusive, first-choice community school, that builds strong character, cares for and meets the needs of all its students, who achieve exceptionally as a result of great expectations and excellent teaching.

Our motto isRes Non Verba – Deeds not words – “show character and achieve”.

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.

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About Mount Grace School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 507 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Mount Grace School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: HR@mountgrace.herts.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01707 655512
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-grace-school-potters-bar (opens in new tab)

Mount Grace School (Potters Bar, Hertfordshire) was one of the first purpose built mixed comprehensive schools in the country and occupies 17 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. We are a rapidly improving, truly inclusive school with approximately 600 students including over 75 in our sixth form. We have a genuine partnership with local people and we are the community school of Potters Bar and the surrounding villages.

This school is a brilliant place for young people to fulfil their potential in a caring, supportive community. Mount Grace is friendly and understanding but also firm, fair and consistent in its values. We strive for academic excellence for our students aged 11 to 18. Our school motto ‘Res Non Verba’ translates as ‘Deeds Not Words’. This means that as members of Mount Grace School, our actions must always show that we Respect, Aspire and Care.

This is a welcoming, caring and friendly school, full of vitality and enthusiasm and our students are a credit to us. Our staff are passionate professionals who want our students to grow into well rounded adults.

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