Positive Behaviour Support

Are you looking for a new opportunity? Want to make an impact at a new school at the very beginning of its journey? Spring School opening September 2023 is looking for a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support to join us and help us provide an excellent education for all our learners.

The Spring School will be a part of the Ambitious about Autism Schools Trust, which was established as a multi-academy trust to develop new free schools. In 2020, the Trust was chosen to develop a new special free school for autistic children and young people in Chessington. Spring School will be a place where autistic children can learn, thrive, achieve, and belong

Spring School is looking for an empathetic and adaptable individual, who thrives under pressure and has a natural ability to solve challenges. You will also need physical and emotional resilience to work with young people with a primary diagnosis of Autism, some of whom have other complex needs.

 Your role as a SW-PBS Practitioner:

• Work directly with all pupils in both our Primary and Secondary phases proactively to increase their access to teaching and learning and respond to incidents as they occur.
• Train, motivate and practically support our staff teams to be confident and skilled in working with our pupils who have behaviours that challenge, to empower staff to deliver the support that is effective and has a real impact.
• Ensure consistency in approach of implementing the School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support framework across Spring School
• Develop innovative and person-centred approaches to teach pupils new skills that will enable them to have fulfilled and active lives, thereby reducing the probability of challenging behaviour.
• In collaboration with the Assistant Head of school, contribute to delivery of School-Wide PBS strategy at Spring school through: Staff training and development; Behaviour Support Planning and Implementation; Incident analysis; Staff team debriefs following incidents.
• In collaboration with the Assistant Headteacher (Pastoral), accountable for ongoing training of specialist TLAs in Positive Behavioural Support systems.

 Why join us?

• The chance to join a new school at the very beginning of its journey
• We are committed to CPD, where you can access a wide range of training and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development
• Competitive annual salary and pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family and personal life

Closing Date- Monday 27th February 2023

Interview Date- Week beginning Monday 6th March 2023

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.

Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit. 

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.