Matrix Manager

Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SH

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  10 August 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £31,537.00 - £34,434.00 Annually (FTE) Actual £27,437-£29,957 pay review pending

Matrix Manager job summary

Start date: As soon as possible

Closing date: Monday 10th August 9am

Shortlisting date: Monday 10th August

Interview date: W/c 17th August

Contract: Permanent

Working hours: 37 hours per week

Working pattern: Term time only, Monday to Friday

8.00am to 4.10pm Monday - Thursday

8.00am to 3.40pm Friday

A daily unpaid break of 40 minutes

Salary Range: Actual £27,437-£29,957 (FTE £31,537-£34,434) pay review pending

A vital pastoral role managing key behaviour systems and guiding students back to positive learning habits.

Why This Role Matters

You are not simply supervising an internal room; you oversee a vital transition point where students pause, reflect, and reset. Working directly with the Assistant Headteacher for Attitudes & Engagement, you will lead the daily operations of the school’s Matrix, parking room, and On-Call coordination. By ensuring a highly structured and calm atmosphere, you provide the space for students to resolve barriers to learning and successfully return to their mainstream classrooms.

What You’ll Bring

• Relational Expertise: Proven experience working with young people, with the ability to build respect and guide students through restorative conversations.

• Calm Authority: The ability to manage challenging behaviour firmly, calmly, and with consistent professional standards.

• Operational Coordination: Strong organisational skills to manage seating plans, distribute student work, coordinate On-Call staff, and update school management systems.

• Team Leadership: Experience in line-managing or guiding colleagues to maintain a unified, consistent approach.

• Key Qualifications: A minimum of 3 GCSEs (A-C) including English Language and Mathematics.

The Kingsdown Difference

• A Collaborative Culture: Work within an attitudes to learning team where behaviour systems are clear, consistent, and fully supported by senior leaders.

• Professional Agency: Enjoy the autonomy to coordinate and improve the daily runnings of the Matrix, on-call, and detention processes.

• Workload-Sensitive Processes: We utilise efficient data dashboards and clear communication logs to minimise administration, keeping your focus on impactful student interactions.

For more details, please see the Job Description below. If you would like to know more about this opportunity please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We are an exempt employer under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

We actively value the "different contributions" you can make. We want you to be at your best during the application process; if you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know.

Note: We do not accept CVs; please apply via My New Term. We reserve the right to interview and appoint exceptional candidates early.

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 Kingsdown School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Kingsdown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kingsdown-school-sn2-7sh

Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.

Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.

Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.

Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.

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