Reset Base Manager
Longsands Academy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1LQ2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
17 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 October 2024
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
- £32,111.00 - £34,101.00 Annually (FTE) Pro Rate salary: £27,541 - £29,248
Reset Base Manager job summary
The role of the Reset Base Manager is to work to raise standards of student behaviour and conduct throughout the school day, both in the classroom, around school. You will be ensuring that the Reset Base is a highly structured and disciplined environment where students can reflect and reset their behaviours, so that learning in the academy remains undisrupted.
Longsands Academy is an 11-18 fully-inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and the surrounding area. The academy has around 1750 students including 250 in the Sixth Form. Longsands is proud of its inclusive and aspirational approach, whether that is in supporting students preparing for Oxbridge or working with students with special educational needs. The academy also has a strong track record of supporting of staff by ensuring excellent mentoring, a supportive culture and many opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
Role Purpose
Ensuring that the Reset Base is a highly structured and disciplined environment where students can reflect and reset their behaviours so that learning in the academy remains undisrupted. They will ensure the room protocols and expectations are adhered to by staff supervising and running the room. Supervise the Reset Base on a rota basis with Senior Leadership Team and Pastoral colleagues and support the operational running of the Reset Base with due regard to the Base protocols and expectations.
Work with the Senior Leadership Team in raising standards of student behaviour and conduct within the SEND and Behaviour provisions Ensure student lists are populated and managed through Bromcom / Pastoral Team. This includes the management of lists for students repeating the day / remaining for a portion of the following day
Ensure parents/carers receive updates during the placement if their child is at risk from escalating towards a suspension by the pastoral and senior leadership team Ensure students receive high quality (and differentiated) academic work that matches the curriculum they follow to ensure continuity of learning for the duration of their placement
Obtain student voice through restorative work to support restoration with staff members and reduce the likelihood of a repeat placement or escalation to suspension Ensure students are supported by the SENDCO and the inclusion team to consider reasonable allowances and adjustments to support students being successful while on placement
Support pastoral, curriculum and attendance teams in empowering students to make the right choices about their own learning, behaviour, punctuality and attendance Support teaching staff in the implementation of the The Astrea Behaviour and Culture Framework Work with the Senior Leadership Team in the development and monitoring of strategies and procedures for improving and maintaining student behaviour and conduct.
Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with pastoral and curriculum staff in maintaining our core routines, supporting in our Reset room and supporting students in understanding and applying our behaviour curriculum
- Use the behaviour dashboard to find areas/periods of concern where support is required
- Support students in meeting our core routines by visiting students/lessons
- Re-engage students with their learning in the classroom
- Manage students displaying challenging behaviour
- Use a range of strategies and techniques to de-escalate negative behaviour throughout the provision
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our learning environment.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
If you would like to understand more about the role, please do contact cheryl.smythe@astrea-longsands.org
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Longsands Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1653 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Longsands Academy website (opens in new tab)
Longsands Academy, part of Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully-inclusive secondary school at the heart of its community. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging and supportive environment in which our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence. Our staff are committed to nurturing the abilities of every child with a curriculum which promotes academic excellence and is delivered by subject specialists. The opportunities we provide allow all students to showcase their talents, whether through the traditional school day or as a result of the wealth of extra-curricular activities on offer. Furthermore, in order to develop the important qualities of independent learning and resilience, our students are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning both in and out of lessons. We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students that are a result of the high expectations, students’ hard work and commitment and the supportive relationships that exist between staff, students and their parents/carers.
The pursuit of academic excellence is at the heart of the Academy. Through high expectations of behaviour, a commitment to great standards of teaching delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum, and positive working relationships with all members of the academy community, all students, regardless of their background or personal circumstances, are encouraged to achieve their academic aspirations. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge that takes students beyond their everyday experiences. We believe in a traditional, subject-based approach to teaching in order to create a scholarly culture that is disciplined and joyful. We want to ensure that we open doors for every students’ future and develop in them a life-long love of learning.
We are committed to developing our staff to be the very best that they can be by striving to ensure that all of our colleagues can access high-quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Our CPD programme is both department-based and in collaboration with academies within the Astrea family and external partners. Wide-ranging opportunities for professional development are available for staff at all stages of their career, including ECTs, experienced classroom teachers, middle and senior leaders and support staff.
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