Behaviour For Learning Leader

We are seeking an energetic and enthusiastic individual to join our successful and dedicated pastoral team. You will need strong behaviour management, a good knowledge and experience of safeguarding in a school setting and a commitment to student progress.

About Us

Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is part of the Outstanding Harris Federation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy. The academy's specialisms are Enterprise and Sport with a ‘can-do' ethos of always improving upon your personal best.

Main Areas of Responsibility

As Behaviour for Learning Leader, your responsibilities will be:

• To improve the aspiration, motivation and self- esteem of students.
• To support raised educational standards and increased achievement.
• To develop strong leadership skills, peer coaching and mentoring within students through the Hub.
• Work in partnership with key colleagues to ensure that students are effectively supported e.g. option choices, external examinations etc.
• Co-ordinate the work around creating alternative timetables for vulnerable students and ensuring a personalised provision where appropriate; share information with all key personnel as appropriate.
• Co-ordinate the working with offsite alternative provision for vulnerable students and ensuring a personalised provision where appropriate; share information with all key personnel as appropriate.
• To support the dealing with and accurately record all incidents of bullying and unacceptable behaviour
• To support the sweep of the Academy regularly through the day, particularly targeting specific groups and classes as necessary and being proactive in incident prevention.
• Be contribute to dealing with incidents that occur during the day effectively and follow through to ensure suitable sanctions are awarded and logged
• To liaise with parents/carers regularly to secure excellent behaviour
• Promote high standards of behaviour amongst students, encouraging them to develop positive relationships with each other and with adults.
• Work closely with the Attendance Manager and the EWO to ensure that a highly proactive approach is taken to preventing persistent absentees and to keeping attendance above the academy target.
• To support whole academy detentions for punctuality, uniform and Academy detentions.
• To support the attendance of PASS/TAC and other meetings as necessary and liaise with other agencies involved between meetings to ensure that all actions are followed through and students and their families are well supported.
• Promote the Academy's reward system and ensure that all students use this to the full.
• Promote opportunities for student leadership and liaise with other colleagues to ensure student democratic structures function effectively.
• To support the transfer for new entrants to Hub and ensure they receive good induction (including safeguarding) to the Academy.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience of working in a similar role in an educational setting.
• Proven success in raising achievement.
• High level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement,
• Good understanding of creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement.
• Willingness to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development.
• Ability to lead and manage own work effectively and take responsibility for own professional development.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Next Steps

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact us via e-mail, or call to arrange a conversation.

Before applying, please download the Job Pack for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification. You will need this when completing your application.

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via our careers website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible and advise you check the job information as per the listing on our careers site.

Rewards & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.

We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.

In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.