9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1st January 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter

  • Closing date

    13 December 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    29 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,424.00 Annually (Actual) NJC11 - FTE: £27,269

Positive Discipline Manager job summary

We are seeking to appoint a Positive Discipline Manager (37 hrs per week, term time only plus 5 additional days) to join our support team at Holderness Academy & Sixth Form College. Holderness Academy & Sixth Form College is part of The Consortium Academy Trust. We are ambitious about the future – creating learning environments and excellence in teaching and learning that provide our children and young people with the best chance at a successful future. Coupled with this is the commitment, care and investment in our people, who we believe are our greatest asset. If you are a team player who is looking for a varied and interesting new career opportunity within learning support, then we want to hear from you!

The Positive Discipline Manager is responsible for the management of a safe and productive environment to manage student behaviour, often in challenging circumstances, and will support students to reflect on their behaviours and make more positive choices in future. The role has responsibility for overseeing and managing the systems in place to support Positive Discipline (PD) across the entire school (both sanctions and rewards) to ensure that strategic decisions are well informed, and evidence based, while maintaining effective communication with all stakeholders.

About You

You will have experience of working with young people and the ability to establish good professional relationships with students and colleagues. You will also have an understanding of safeguarding and child protection and a clear understanding of the factors which can lead to education disaffection.

Candidates should be educated to GCSE A-C (or equivalent) in both English and Maths, be organised, reliable and resilient, and be committed to their own learning.

What WE can Offer YOU

In return for your skills and experience, we provide a supportive and friendly environment to develop and thrive. We offer all staff access to an excellent pension (TPS/LGPS); a generous annual leave entitlement with additional shutdown days over the Christmas period; staff development opportunities; free onsite car parking; and a supportive induction programme.

For an informal discussion about this post, please do not hesitate to contact Mr Briggs, Assistant Headteacher, via telephone on 01482 899315.

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 Holderness Academy and Sixth Form College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1013 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Holderness Academy & Sixth Form College is a large comprehensive school with 1108 students on roll, including 105 in the Sixth Form. The Academy is situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire and located in the small village of Preston. It sits six miles to the East of Hull and one mile from the town of Hedon.

The Academy attracts students from all its surrounding East Yorkshire towns and villages, and staff from even further afield. We are incredibly proud to have a positive and engaged student body and a dedicated and talented team of staff and governors Academy and Sixth Form College is a disciplined and well-organised environment. We have high standards of Academy dress and have clear expectations on punctuality, attendance and behaviour. We have a strong student and staff voice approach which has impacted significantly on the recent developments in our Academy environment and in approaches to Teaching and Learning and fostering well-being and mental resilience across all teams within our school. We recognise the impact of exceptional teachers and are committed to high quality continued professional development.

On 1 October 2018, Holderness Academy and Sixth Form College (formerly South Holderness Technology College) joined a multi academy trust, ‘The Consortium Academy Trust’ (TCAT). TCAT currently comprises of six secondary schools and two primary schools, as well as two associate members, with a total of approximately 8,000 learners and a significant staff team.

The Trust was developed to provide a platform to deliver high quality educational experiences for the children and young people within the communities it serves, to enhance and improve their life chances and enable them to make substantial and sustained contributions to society. We will achieve this by building a strong, regional offer that supports the educational aspirations of current and future generations while providing excellent career opportunities for staff.

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