Reflection Room Manager
North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 0UD20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
2 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,612 - £31,063 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About Us
At North Oxfordshire Academy, we believe every student deserves the opportunity to thrive. Our school is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and aspirational environment where behaviour and learning go hand in hand. We’re now looking for a dedicated and dynamic individual to lead our Reflection Room—a key part of our pastoral and behavioural support strategy.
The Role
As Reflection Room Manager, you’ll be at the heart of our behaviour recovery provision. You’ll create a calm, structured space where students can reflect, reset, and re-engage with their learning. This is a hands-on role that blends behaviour management, mentoring, and academic support.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain a silent, focused learning environment for students placed in the Reflection Room
- Collaborate with staff to ensure appropriate work is provided and tracked
- Develop tailored support materials and mentoring programmes for students with repeated placements
- Monitor and report on student progress and staff engagement
- Support school-wide behaviour interventions and respond to on-call incidents
- Build positive relationships with students, staff, and families to reinforce our “firm but fair” ethos
What We’re Looking For
- A confident presence with strong behaviour management skills
- Experience working with young people in an educational or pastoral setting
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting student welfare
- A proactive, solution-focused mindset
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us? – More pay, More time, More Support
- Access to over 250 exclusive benefits including free access to online wellness and workout classes, money off your weekly shop, high street purchases and meals out.
- Continuing Professional Development options, tailored to your needs.
- Competitive maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits.
- Free confidential advice and support is accessible through our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Cycle to work scheme – we will help you buy your new bike!
- Health Cash Plan - We offer a health cash plan giving you money towards essential medical treatment.
- Free parking on site.
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Guaranteed personal day – 1 paid personal day each year, to use as you want.
Important details:
- Salary £27,612 - £31,063 per annum
- This is term time only role, 37.5 hours per week. You will be required to work 8am – 4pm, Monday - Friday
- Permanent contract
If you’re ready to inspire, support, and empower our students, we’d love to hear from you!
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
North Oxfordshire Academy ensures a whole school approach to safeguarding. This means ensuring safeguarding and child protection are at the forefront and underpins all relevant aspects of process and policy development.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Applying for the job
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About North Oxfordshire Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1023 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Oxfordshire Academy website
- Email address
- emma.hunt@northoxfordshire-academy.org
Welcome to North Oxfordshire Academy and thank you for taking an interest in developing your career with us.
For those who want to combine quick access to London and Oxford with country living, North Oxfordshire Academy is the ideal location. We are situated in Banbury, a vibrant market town steeped in history which enjoys affordable rental and house prices.
The academy sits on a 48-acre site and offers great facilities including extensive playing fields, a national standard athletics track and a 50-place nursery to which teachers benefit from heavily subsidised places.
The academy offers a great training programme for students, ECTs and Schools Direct trainees who all benefit from high-quality, supportive CPD. Our staff are optimistic, hardworking and great team players and new staff very quickly become part of the NOA family.
We pride ourselves on excellent staff retention; our staff are happy and determined to encourage the very best in our students. I would be delighted to welcome any prospective applicants to see for themselves how we work at North Oxfordshire Academy.
Ellie Jacobs, Principal
Arranging a visit to North Oxfordshire Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email emma.hunt@northoxfordshire-academy.org.
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