Behaviour Support Worker

Bedminster Down School, Bristol, BS13 7DQ

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,220 - £24,773

Behaviour Support Worker job summary

Are you passionate about setting high expectations for student behaviour? Are you ready to take on a new and varied role?

Do you want to work in a supportive environment where your skills and contributions are valued?

Join us!

At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an environment where every employee - whether in teaching, support, or leadership - can flourish. We strive to attract, develop, and retain the very best talent by creating a culture that values professional development, wellbeing, and inclusion.

Your Role in Building Brighter Futures

As a behaviour support worker at Bedminster Down School, you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of Futura’s mission statement of “Building the brightest future for all, enabling every individual to flourish”. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about living our values and making a positive impact on all the young people in our Trust.

If your drive to work into education comes from a desire to make a real difference to life chances of young people, then Bedminster Down is the school for you. Set on the outskirts of South Bristol, approximately 40% of students at BDS are eligible for the Pupil Premium. In the wider community, the percentage of adults with experience of tertiary education is one of the very lowest in the country. Our goal, working with our fantastically supportive parents, schools across the city, and our wider Trust, is to change that. The young people at Bedminster Down build an incredible community and know just how valuable their teachers are – the relationships they build with staff are often life changing. The staff community is tight knit, with staff who all know each other well and look out for each other every day. Leadership staff work relentlessly to build a trusting environment where experience and professional integrity is truly valued. Systems and process embedded across the school allow teachers to teach, with excellent pastoral and administrative support provided at every step of the journey, both for staff and students.

As a behaviour support worker, you will be responsible for:

1. Fostering excellent behaviour across the school site by consistently holding students to the high standards expected through the school’s behaviour policy.

2. Ensuring the school’s sanctions map is applied swiftly, objectively and effectively.

3. Maintaining high standards of behaviour and learning in the school’s Referral Room.

4. Working as a mentor for specific identified individuals and groups of students and deliver behaviour support interventions.

What You’ll Bring to Futura

We are looking for an organized and dynamic pastoral administrator who:

• Qualifications: has a good standard of education (3 x GCSEs – English C/4 equivalent or above))

• Experience: Is used to working with challenging or vulnerable young people

• Skills: Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills

• Demonstrates a passion for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for all members of our school community.

• Aligns with our trust-wide values by bringing a positive, collaborative approach to their work and a willingness to continuously develop professionally.

What We Offer to Support Your Growth

• Professional Growth: Continuous Professional Development (CPD), inset days, rotation and secondment opportunities, and leadership succession programmes.

• Wellbeing Support: Initiatives like ‘Wellbeing Moments,’ flexible working arrangements, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental health support.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Generous defined pension schemes, Health Cash-back Plan (covering dentist, physiotherapy appointments etc.), and multiple retail discount schemes.

• Sustainability Commitment: Reducing our carbon footprint through our Climate and Nature initiatives across all schools.

• Inclusive Culture: A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated, helping staff bring their best selves to work and thrive in their roles.

Key Information:

Application Deadline: 13/07/2025

Interviews are likely to be held soon thereafter

• The successful candidate will take up a full time and permanent role, term time only, and will be expected to start on 01/09/2025.

• The working hours are expected to be 08:00-16:00, Monday to Thursday and 08:00-15:30 on Friday.

• The salary for the role will be £23,220 - £24,773.

PLEASE NOTE: Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement.

Futura Learning Partnership is Committed to Safeguarding:

Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your existing/most recent employer and completed by a Headteacher/appropriate senior manager/HR Lead, satisfactory pre-employment health screening, online searches and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.

Equal Opportunities:

At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is treated fairly. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and are dedicated to supporting our staff to achieve their full potential.

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.

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About Bedminster Down School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1040 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bedminster Down School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bedminster-down-school-bristol

Bedminster Down School is part of the Wellsway Multi-Academy Trust

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