Senior Behaviour and Restoration Lead
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £49,799.00 - £62,224.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Scale - Commensurate with skills and experience to a maximum of L10. Non- QTS post holders would be appointed on Support Staff Scale up to £50,144(Actual)
Senior Behaviour and Restoration Lead job summary
This is an exceptional opportunity for a current senior leader seeking a focused and high-impact role or for an experienced middle leader eager to take the next exciting step in their career. The role is ideal for an ambitious behaviour or pastoral lead with a passion for building strong, supportive relationships and shaping a positive, restorative school culture. For the right candidate, this post offers the chance to step rapidly into greater responsibility, working alongside the senior leadership team to drive meaningful change and make a real difference at every level, from individual students to the whole school community.
Responsible to the Vice Principal: Student Support and Student Development for:
Ensuring that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline including before and after the college day through the leadership and management of relentless routines, and social time procedures including:
Organising and leading the duties at the start and end of the day to ensure that students enter and leave the site safely and calmly, feeling welcomed by all staff.
Ensuring that relentless routines at the start of the day and lesson changeover are followed, managing the corridors to ensure that students arrive at lessons on time and that if they are late, they are escorted to the lesson and this is recorded, deploying the Behaviour Support Officers to ensure these phases run smoothly.
Organising and leading the procedures at social times, ensuring they are followed, and that student conduct is safe and orderly. Make certain that any poor behaviour is followed-up immediately.
Ensuring the climate in college is safe, welcoming and focused upon learning through the leadership of the behaviour support function, with a particular emphasis on:
Overseeing and directing the Behaviour Support Officers as they provide support to staff and students when things go wrong through proactive presence, reset and removal, ensuring that any incident of poor behaviour is addressed immediately and in line with the ESF Behaviour Policy.
Overseeing the behaviour support rooms so what when these spaces are used to address student behaviour the climate is characterised by high expectations and that reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents occurring.
Reducing suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised intervention and support for behaviour, with a particular emphasis on:
Analysing behaviour data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor behaviour, strategically deploying Behaviour Support Officers to areas of need.
Using data to ensure that when student behaviour is not exemplary over time, that a staged response is used to address this and includes personalised intervention. Reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on behaviour data, improvements and actions required to address this.
Building strong relationships with parents and carers when students regularly demonstrate behaviour that is not exemplary and work with them to create intervention plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies.
Further information is available in the job description and person specification.
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme (TPS for Qualified Teachers and LGPS for Support Staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
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 Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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