Behavioural Support Worker – Term Time Only
Harlington Upper School, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 6NX11 days remaining to apply
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC level 3D, points 7 – 11 (£25,584 - £27,269 pro-rata) Actual Salary for 35.5 hours £20,995 - £22,378
Behavioural Support Worker – Term Time Only job summary
We are looking to appoint a Behavioural Support Worker, to support the behavioural needs of our students, as well as ensuring they adhere to boundaries and expectations. The successful candidate will work alongside the Head of Year to provide behavioural support for the students in the year group, whilst working collegiately to support with the administration of pastoral systems.
The position is term time only (plus five training days) 35.5 hours per week:
- 8am to 4pm Monday to Thursday
- 8am to 1.30pm Friday
We are a successful forward thinking Upper School based in a beautiful rural setting in the heart of central Bedfordshire with excellent transport links.
We offer staff the opportunity to work in a friendly, supportive community with talented, caring and dedicated colleagues. From September 2025 we are moving to a 1pm Friday finish to support staff and student well-being. Please see the charter for our wider approach to staff well-being.
What makes Harlington Upper School special is the real sense of community that you can see and sense as you walk around the school. Each individual child is important to us, and our expectation is that all our students will develop and grow as young people as they make their journey as part of our community. The quality of teaching is strong, and our staff are talented, caring and dedicated, and we are very proud of our staff and students.
The successful candidate will:
- Provide behavioural support for students.
- Help to supervise and administrate the Reflection Room for students who have temporarily been withdrawn from class.
- Help to administer the school’s On Call and detention systems.
- Provide support to Heads of Year including administrative assistance and the investigation of behavioural incidents.
- Liaise with parents and outside agencies as required.
- Work effectively and flexibly as part of a team.
- To provide support to form tutors as needed, including at registration times.
We can offer:
- Wonderful students who have a passion for learning and deserve the very best.
- A team of talented and highly committed staff.
- A supportive working environment with excellent facilities.
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development.
- A unique rural location in Central Bedfordshire.
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
Harlington Upper School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online checks and reference requests will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and prior to interview.
All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references, including an enhanced DBS check.
Early applications are welcomed and we reserve the right to interview early should a suitable candidate apply.
No agencies please.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safer Recruitment: Harlington Upper School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All posts working with children will be subject to the disclosure of criminal records, and identification documents will be required as evidence of identity and right to work in the UK.
Online checks will be completed in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We do not accept CVs or applications from agencies.
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 Harlington Upper School
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1248 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harlington Upper School website
Based in a unique location, in the heart of rural Bedfordshire, with excellent transport links, we are situated one mile from M1 Junction 12, and within walking distance to a train station with routes to London and the Midlands.
Harlington Upper School is a very special place. We are a high attaining, academic school with outcomes at GCSE and A Level that consistently top the Bedfordshire league tables. We embrace an approach to teaching and learning that combines innovation with established best practice, and equip our young people with the skills, knowledge and qualifications they need to progress successfully beyond their school years.
We believe that every child, no matter their starting point, can succeed if challenged and inspired appropriately, and alongside our academic curriculum, we provide outstanding extracurricular opportunities, enrichment and personal development to provide a truly rounded education for all our young people.
Our expectation that our students are ambitious, altruistic and accountable, ensures that we achieve both excellent academic progress for our students while creating a happy, safe and harmonious environment. We are gifted with a highly motivated and talented staff body; every class is taught by subject specialists who are experts in their field.
Being part of the Pyramid Schools Trust ensures effective collaboration with our local Middle and Lower Schools and provides a seamless transition into Upper School enabling a cohesive, world class, all through education for our students.
Harlington Upper School makes a difference to young people, and we very much look forward to welcoming new colleagues to join our successful team.
Our vacancies can also be viewed on our website: https://www.harlington.org/admissions-join-us/work-for-us/
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