Behaviour Support Officer: SOAR
Harris Aspire Academy, London, SE25 6EJ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 39 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week; actual salary £25,909.24- £27,542.31
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,033-£31,926
Pay scale
- Grade 5 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Behaviour Support Officer to assist in our SOAR (Success/Ownership/Achieve/Reintegrate) Programme.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Maths and English GCSE or equivalent
- Child Protection qualification or willingness to undertake training
- Experience of working with children with challenging behaviour
- Experience of working in a school/education environment
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Since opening its doors in 2013, Harris Aspire Academy has been committed in its vision to provide an outstanding education to all of its students overcoming barriers that may have prevented them from engaging fully in mainstream education. The Academy is part of the Harris Federation whose name is synonymous with setting standards of excellence and fulfilling high expectations.
The S.O.A.R programme may be requested for students in the following circumstances:
- Exclusion after the 5thday of a fixed term suspension
- Health issues
- Safeguarding issues
The S.O.A.R programme provides the following during the student's stay:
- A safe educational environment for the student
- Daily attendance update for the Commissioning Body
- Supervision and support with the work set by the Commissioning Body
- Therapeutic sessions with a member of the Inclusion team to address the reasons why they are on the Programme.
- Student work returned for marking
- A strategy bank and pupil voice will be provided at the end of the placement
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includesour Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS,a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more aboutour benefitson our website.
Further details about the role
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Providing pastoral support
- Receive and supervise students suspended from, or otherwise not working to, a normal timetable
- Attending to students' personal needs and providig advice to assist in their social development
- Establishing productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model
- Supporting mentoring arrangements with students and providing support for distressed students
- Providing information and advice to enable students to make positive choices about their own behaviour
- Challenging and motivating students, promoting and reinforcing self-esteem and resilience
- Providing feedback to students in relation to progress, achievement, behaviour and attendance
- Keeping accurate records of performance, behaviour and attendance for the commissioning school
- Providing objective and accurate feedback and reports as required to other staff
- Assisting in the development and implementation of appropriate behaviour management strategies
- Managing work for S.O.A.R. students, liaising with commissioning schools
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Aspire Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Aspire Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisps6f.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 3370 9238
Since opening its doors in 2013, Harris Aspire Academy has been committed in its vision to provide an outstanding education to all of its students overcoming barriers that may have prevented them from engaging fully in mainstream education. The Academy is part of the Harris Federation whose name is synonymous with setting standards of excellence and fulfilling high expectations. I firmly believe that a strong, embedded culture of expectations of behaviour, coupled with a high standard of teaching and support, work to ensure a positive, successful learning environment that keeps all students engaged in the learning process. My ambition is to drive the accomplishments of the Academy further, enabling our young learners to develop and achieve the essential skills needed to be happy, confident and successful in order to flourish in adult life. The curriculum offer at Harris Aspire Academy is designed to meet the social and educational needs for students at a personalised level, delivered by highly trained and fully committed staff.
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