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Refocus Room Manager
Seahaven Academy, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9TD13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
12 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 June 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
- £30,967.00 Annually (Actual) FTE Salary is £35,888.00 based on 52 weeks per year, actual salary is prorated to 44.87 paid weeks per year, 39 working weeks per year
Refocus Room Manager job summary
The Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly efficient Refocus Room Manager to join our supportive and positive pastoral team at Seahaven Academy, ensuring students are supported to the best that they can be.
The Refocus Room Manager will address matters that arise, skillfully and promptly dealing with behaviour, attitude, standards and engagement. The successful candidate will engage with parents to build and maintain positive relationships with the community and maintain excellent records of intervention, supporting the graduated approach to pastoral support.
The Refocus Room Manager will model good student conduct, dress code and professionalism. Be supportive of the school culture and instrumental in removing barriers to enable students to meet the demands of the classroom.
The role includes creating a positive culture through insisting on high standards of student behaviour, supporting students, staff and parents and monitoring and improving students' behaviour. This is a busy but rewarding environment where every role in the school contributes to our students achieving their best possible outcomes. Further information is included in our job pack on the school website.
Our staff are committed to honing their skills through coaching, Teaching and Learning communities and using evidence-based approaches to create expert lessons. We believe that ‘Knowledge is Power’. We are currently using the Rosenshine principles and Teach Like A Champion to underpin our professional development and teaching through explicit/direct instruction.
The successful candidate can be sure of working with a team of extremely dedicated staff in a very motivating, forward-thinking environment. The school is committed to providing exceptional CPD at all levels including programmes for ECTs, recently qualified teachers and middle leaders.
About You
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Role Tasks:
Work closely with the Vice Principal (Behaviour) and the pastoral team to effectively support students across the school.
Co-ordinate and supervise the Refocus Room, managing the culture in the room.
Liaise with the Directors of Year to discuss students who are placed in the room and plan actions accordingly to ensure success.
Ensure behaviour expectations are clearly communicated, applied consistently and are in line with the agreed Behaviour Policy and Refocus Room processes and procedures.
Oversee the delivery of appropriate learning within the Refocus Room.
Ensure expectations of student work completion within the Refocus Room remain high and consistent.
Liaise with subject leaders to ensure work completed in the Refocus Room supports curriculum coverage and minimises gaps in learning.
Ensure appropriate steps are taken to support students with a successful return to learning after their time in Refocus Room.
Maintain student records/database and shared patterns with the year team.
Administer the logging system for Refocus Room and ensure all registers are timely and accurate.
Communicate with Key Stakeholders as required.
Attend meetings to discuss student behaviours as appropriate.
Liaise with members of the teaching profession on educational matters.
Commit to ongoing professional development specific to the role of Refocus Room Manager (e.g. effective behaviour management strategies, difficult conversations etc.)
Collect and analyse data for students sent to Refocus Room to identify students who need additional support in the classroom to be successful.
General:
Develop excellent working relationships with colleagues internally, centrally, and externally.
Be an effective and flexible member of the team, contributing to the successful adherence to the Safeguarding Policy.
Always uphold the Academy policies and procedures.
Be aware and comply with policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person.
Participate in training and other learning activities as required.
Participate in the Academy’s Performance Management process.
Provide appropriate guidance and supervision and assist in the training and development of staff as appropriate.
Promote the area of responsibility within the Academy and beyond.
Represent the Academy at events as appropriate.
Support and promote the Academy ethos.
Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as required, that are covered by the general scope of the post.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants for people working with children and vulnerable adults will need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) enhanced clearance for this authority.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Seahaven Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 745 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Seahaven Academy website
Seahaven Academy is an 11-16 school serving the community of Newhaven and surrounding areas. Following an inspection by Ofsted in November 2021, the school has again been judged as ‘good’ in all areas. The school has a spectacular position in very modern buildings above the coast, within easy reach of Eastbourne, Brighton and Lewes. Newhaven has the benefit of good bus and train services from surrounding areas directly to and from the town.
At Seahaven Academy we have a very simple ethos: be ambitious, be determined, be the best! We have very high expectations of our students and of ourselves and are proud to be committed to fulfilling the United Learning mission of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’.
Our school is a vibrant yet calm environment in which students can fulfil their ambitions. We ensure that classes are disruption-free so that learning time is not wasted. We ensure students have every opportunity to be supported and extended when they most need it. We place a huge emphasis on literacy as the key to the wider curriculum. We enthuse, encourage, motivate, convince and cajole our students to be the best they can be. We underpin all our work with the very best student support and pastoral care. Seahaven Academy is a school with big ambitions and very high expectations. We expect our students to be leaders and drivers in our pursuit of excellence.
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