Pastoral Behaviour Support Lead

Mount Tamar School, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 2EF

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP - Pending pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  28 February 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 February 2026

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: £30,024.00 Annually (FTE)

Pastoral Behaviour Support Lead job summary

About The Role

• Job Title: Pastoral Behaviour Support Lead

• Salary Range: NJC Grade E

• Contract Type: Permanent

• Closing Date: 28th February

• Full day interview to include tasks:

Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong understanding of behaviour, regulation, and SEMH needs? Do you believe that behaviour is communication and that positive relationships are the foundation for change? Are you resilient, reflective, and committed to supporting young people with complex barriers to learning?

Mount Tamar School is a specialist provision for pupils aged 4-16 with social, emotional and mental health needs, including ASC. We are a community of approximately 115 pupils over 3 sites in Plymouth and 1 farm setting in Liskeard. We offer a therapeutic, behaviour-informed approach to education, rooted in wellbeing, regulation and preparation for independence.

From the moment our students arrive, we focus on helping them develop the skills, self-awareness and emotional literacy they need to succeed beyond school.

The Role

We are seeking a Pastoral Behaviour Support Lead with a strong behaviour and engagement focus to play a key role across our sites. This is a term-time-only position.

Our Pastoral Behaviour Support Leads are central to our behaviour-support model. Using their expertise in understanding behaviour as communication, they design and deliver individualised behaviour support strategies, interventions and programmes that promote emotional regulation, engagement with learning and positive relationships.

Working closely with teaching staff, they provide proactive and reactive behaviour support, helping students to navigate challenges, reduce barriers to learning and develop safe, regulated ways of expressing their needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on behaviour support, regulation strategies and SEMH interventions within the classrooms.
• Build and maintain strong, trusting relationships with students who present with complex behaviours
• Support students through periods of dysregulation using trauma-informed, relational and restorative approaches
• Coach and support teaching assistants in understanding behaviour, de-escalation and relational practice
• Work collaboratively with the Assistant Headteacher, teachers, curriculum leads and families to ensure consistency of behaviour support
• Contribute to risk assessments, Relational Support Plans (RSPs), reviews and record-keeping
• Liaise with parents and external professionals to support student progress and wellbeing
• Play a key role in delivering a bespoke RSE and PSHE curriculum, tailored to students’ emotional and developmental needs

You will have:

• Significant experience working with pupils with SEMH and ASC, particularly those presenting with challenging behaviour
• A strong understanding of safeguarding, wellbeing and behaviour support
• Experience using proactive and reactive behaviour strategies, including de-escalation and regulation techniques
• A calm, resilient and reflective approach to behaviour
• The ability to remain relational, consistent and compassionate under pressure
• Creativity and flexibility in responding to individual needs

This role would suit an HLTA, experienced Teaching Assistant, Behaviour Mentor or Behaviour & Engagement Specialist looking to take a lead role in behaviour support within a specialist setting.

Please see attached candidate pack for further details

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 Mount Tamar School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-tamar-school-plymouth

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