Behaviour Lead Mentor

Do you have experience with behaviour mentoring? Join our thriving academy and support our students. We are currently looking to appoint an experienced Behaviour Mentor to join us at Harris Garrard Academy.

About Harris Garrard Academy

Harris Garrard Academy is a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the wider South Thamesmead area, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links, the academy’s stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004.

Dedicated to moving forward

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.

As one of Harris’s successful all-through academies, staff at all levels belong to a strong, cohesive team working with Executive Principal Chris Everett and the wider SLT team. Staff can expect to grow with us as we continue to innovate and evolve as an academy. With ample opportunity to build on CPD, your potential is limitless with us.

Main Areas of Responsibility

Behaviour for Learning

• To support the consistent implementation of the academy Behaviour for Learning policy.
• To be responsible for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the academy, this to include organising line-ups where appropriate.
• To work with the other members of the behaviour team as a unit to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch;
• To be responsible for calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons.
• Managing detentions every afternoon.
• To act as the liaison between the academy and the local community (including the Police) for any aspect of behaviour issues arising during the academy day eg, truancy sweeps, liaising with local shopkeepers.
• Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club in line with the agreed system;
• 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 particularly outside lessons;
• To design and deliver, in consultation with the academy Leadership Group, a variety of agreed enrichment and sporting activities making maximum use of the academy facilities.
• To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the academy Leadership Group, for example, taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues.
• To mentor students on PSPs, supporting successful achievement of targets and contributing to meetings/ reports in relation to student progress on PSP. This may include supporting in lessons as appropriate.
• To prepare student’s files for governor’s disciplinary panels or exclusion hearings.
• To present reports of student’s progress to PSP review meetings.
• To ensure that all issues that relate to student safety such as allegations of bullying are passed on to academy colleagues, in a timely manner, for further investigation as required.
• To liaise with the local community, including the Police, including dealing with incidents received by the academy, such as student identification, investigating incidents outside the academy, and ensuring that all statements/records are passed on to the relevant academy staff.
• To be responsible for supervising students internally excluded;
• To liaise with the AP for behaviour to deliver the curriculum offer for the students attending the exclusion centre and the re-integration back into mainstream lessons;
• To liaise with teaching staff to ensure appropriate work is set and appropriate provision is in place.
• To liaise with parents/ carers and relevant APs and subject staff to ensure smooth transition to and from internal exclusion;
• To be responsible for maintaining a calm and purposeful learning environment;
• To follow-up on any truancy or attendance concerns;
• To reduce potential permanent exclusion by offering an alternative curriculum which includes rigorous behaviour for learning intervention.

Management of Room

• To be a role model for the students in the Reflection unit.
• To provide the students with very clear expectations of conduct, in line with those for all academy students;
• To ensure that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet academy code of conduct while internally excluded;
• To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the academy Leadership Group, for example, taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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, referral and internal exclusion as appropriate
• Experience of working with challenging students and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully

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.