Behaviour Mentor

We are looking for an experienced Behaviour Mentor to support our students at Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich.

The actual salary for this role will be £35,221 - £37,368 (38 weeks per year, 42.5 hours per week).

We encourage our students to be critical thinkers and promote these skills throughout the curriculum. A student at Harris Boys' Academy will learn how to engage critically with foreign affairs, religion and society, issues of citizenship and the media, so they acquire the skills, and recognise the value of, thinking for yourself and thinking in a well‑reasoned manner.

We are very lucky to have an amazing staff team who work together, and a body of professionals who are striving to be the very best they can be. Our staff are on board, want to change futures and want to be better at what they do. Our students buy into this idea and when you have these two points together, you can make wonderful things happen.

This is shown through our outcomes and if you speak to the boys and the parents of this school community.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the consistent implementation of our behaviour policy
• Taking responsibility for the calm and purposeful movement of students into/out of the academy and around the academy between lessons
• Working with the other members of the behaviour team to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch
• Managing detentions every afternoon
• Acting as the liaison between the academy and the local community (including the Police) for any aspect of behaviour issues arising during the academy day, such as truancy sweeps and liaising with local shopkeepers
• Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club
• Ensuring that students enter the building in full academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures
• Ensuring that faculty points are awarded as appropriate
• Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet academy standards
• Designing and delivering, alongside the SLT, a variety of agreed enrichment and sporting activities
• Following through any behavioural issues, such as taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues
• Mentoring students on PSPs, including supporting in lessons if required and presenting progress reports at review meetings
• Preparing students' files for disciplinary panels or exclusion hearings
• Ensuring all student safety issues, such as allegations of bullying, are passed on to academy colleagues for further investigation as required
• Supervising students internally excluded, including liaising with the AP for behaviour to deliver the curriculum offer and supporting re‑integration back into mainstream lessons
• Liaising with teaching staff to ensure appropriate work is set and appropriate provision is in place
• Liaising with parents/carers and relevant staff to ensure smooth transition to and from internal exclusion
• Maintaining a calm and purposeful learning environment
• Following up on any truancy or attendance concerns
• Reducing potential permanent exclusion by offering an alternative curriculum which includes rigorous behaviour for learning intervention
• Being a role model for students internally excluded and providing them with clear expectations of conduct, in line with those for all academy students
• Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet academy code of conduct while internally excluded

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above, or equivalent
• Knowledge of the academy behaviour for learning policy
• Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
• Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
• Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course
• Two years' experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment
• Experience of dealing successfully with a range of behaviour issues
• Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent behaviour for learning
• Experience of working with families
• Experience of supervising a group of students for detentions,…