Behaviour Support Officer

The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  15 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 July 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: Actual £20,884 per annum (Full Time Equivalent: £28,387 per annum (Pay review pending)

Behaviour Support Officer job summary

Following a strategic review of Academy priorities, we are seeking to enhance and develop our Behaviour Support Team. We are seeking to recruit a number of key roles to build upon already good foundations and strengthen further, capability and effectiveness of behaviour support within the Academy. We are seeking an experienced Behaviour Support Officer, with a proven track record of effectively supporting the positive modification of student behaviours in a secondary setting.

This is an important role to assist the academy in reducing instances of poor behaviour and ensure learning is not impacted. The Behaviour Support Team play a crucial role in ensuring high standards of behaviour and learning are supported throughout our Academy.

This role will be on a contract of 35 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks)

Salary: Actual £20,884 per annum(Full Time Equivalent: £28,387 per annum (Pay review pending) TBOWA Support Staff Scale 23

We would be delighted to welcome you on a tour of the academy and answer any questions that you may have, prior to applying.

As Behaviour Support Officer, you will be welcomed into an exceptional team of professionals to:

• Take ownership of monitoring areas of the academy outside the classroom, supporting with student movement around the Academy to ensure a presence and sustaining an orderly, calm atmosphere for productive learning to take place.
• Establishing positive working relationships with students, acting as a positive role model. Intervening in student disputes by using restorative approaches in order to promote pro social behaviours, mediating between students (and staff) where relationships have broken down.
• Respond to any “on call” requests in a timely manner, providing support to de-escalate relevant student behaviour. Ensuring the appropriate administration is completed to support these “on call” procedures.
• To liaise with relevant parents/carers as directed by the Heads of Year, Reset Manager and Leadership team
• Advise on peer conflict and incidents of bullying, including supporting students with additional needs, raising any safeguarding/wellbeing concerns to the appropriate department. Whilst promoting students’ emotional, social and behavioural wellbeing at the academy both in class and out of class activities.
• To follow up and investigate any incidents that occur between students as necessary.
• Support the Academy’s teaching staff by utilising Behaviour hotspot data to prevent, address and minimise disruption to lessons.
• Provide information and advice to enable students to make positive choices about their own learning, progression, behaviour and attendance.
• Working alongside colleagues within the Behaviour Support Team, to ensure the working environment within the Academy’s Reset room is well-controlled and students are held to task appropriately with the work that is set.

The successful candidate will:

• Have experience working with challenging behaviour, maintaining the ability to remain calm, patient and supportive in challenging situations.
• Be passionate about supporting young people’s Mental Health
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Have a willingness to work as part of a team and adapt to the needs of students
• Have a relevant university degree, such as psychology, criminology, family support, childcare or sports/coaching - all really transferable skills into behaviour assistant roles!
• Have a calm and professional presence in challenging situations

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.

We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:

• Generous employer pension contribution at 23.6% of basic salary equating to £5,607 per annum
• Career development with a bespoke CPD programme, with a generous number of INSET days.
• Excellent teaching and office facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
• Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
• Free breakfast and soup for lunch provided

To apply for this Behaviour Support Officer role, please visit the vacancies section of our website to complete an application form: https://www.tbowa.org/staff/-vacancies/support-staff

Please email completed application forms to recruitment@tbowa.org, addressing your covering letter to Mr Paul McKeown, Principal.

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About The Bishop of Winchester Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1178 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bishop-of-winchester-academy

The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).

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