Deputy Manager Behaviour for Learning

Ridgewood School, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7UB

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  14 August 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 July 2024

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: £22,590.00 - £25,903.00 Annually (Actual)

Deputy Manager Behaviour for Learning job summary

Purpose of the role:

To support the BfL Manager in ensuring the efficient operation of the Behaviour for Learning system, including administrative, pastoral, and community liaison functions. Assist in leading the BfL team and promoting its ethos to students and parents/carers.

Key Areas:

1. Management

2. Student Welfare

3. Human Resource Management

Main Duties

1. Management

• Assist in developing and implementing the vision for Inclusion and Behaviour Management.
• Support the on-call and detention systems, maintaining a high profile to ensure appropriate student behaviour.
• Conduct investigations into breaches of the School’s Discipline Code, liaise with parents/carers, and maintain records of interventions.

2. Behaviour for Learning Role

• Team Participation: Support the Behaviour Team in implementing the vision for Inclusion and Behaviour Management.
• Daily Operations: Assist with the on-call system, senior on-call, and detention system.
• Detention Management: Supervise, track, and monitor detentions.
• Investigations: Conduct investigations into breaches of the School’s Discipline Code, as requested, and collate statements.
• Record Keeping: Maintain records of interventions with students, calls, and meetings with parents/carers.

3. Student Welfare

• Discuss sensitive issues with parents/carers regarding behaviour, uniform, equipment, or attendance.
• Follow Child Protection procedures and support the Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Maintain regular contact with parents/carers of students needing extra support and promote positive behaviour management strategies.

4. Human Resource Management

• Provide input on the implementation of Behaviour for Learning and assist with related training.

Miscellaneous

To participate in personal annual review process.

To be aware of the responsibility for personal Health, Safety and Welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.

To co-operate with the employer on all issues to do with Health, Safety and Welfare.

To undertake such other reasonable tasks that the Headteacher may occasionally reasonably request.

37 hours per week term time only. Daily hours to cover the school working day.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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About Ridgewood School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1457 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Ridgewood School website (opens in new tab)
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Staff and students at Ridgewood work hard every day to embody the school’s core values: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We are enjoying a trajectory of continued success and look forward to welcoming a successful applicant who can join us on our journey. We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made as a school, having laid strong foundations for further improvement going forward.

Our school motto, ‘Prepare for the road ahead’, represents our belief in preparing our staff and students for their future. We exemplify our motto not only in terms of academic achievement, but also in terms of the training, enrichment and experiences which make us all model citizens. Our school values underpin what we do and contribute to our ethos in everything we undertake as a school community. We set our standards high and do not compromise, because we believe in the best for everyone.

Never has there been a better time to join us. We are in the early stages of planning a multi-million-pound new build that will ensure that the staff and students benefit from 21st Century resources. We are regularly oversubscribed in Year 7 and our Post-16 provision is thriving.

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