Behaviour Mentor

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced individual to join our current team to work at the brand new Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form.

Your opportunity

You will be working in a supportive, nurturing culture that sets high expectations of educational outcome whilst supporting students to make individual progress towards wider fulfilment.

As part of Harris, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education in London. With regular progression opportunities and outstanding CPD for support staff, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether at Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form, in one of our other 46 academies, or in our central team. Our aim is to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.

Harris Benefits

As part of the Harris Federation, we can offer you a range of benefits, including:

• The opportunity to develop and grow your career within the Federation.
• Performance and loyalty bonus
• Pension scheme (LGPS) and access to our Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan, covering a range of health and wellbeing benefits
• Bicycle Purchase and ICT loans

Click here for a full list of Harris benefits. 

What we are looking for

We look for talented individuals who want to be a part of transforming education in London, and helping create exceptional places of learning. We are looking for someone who will:

• Support the consistent implementation of the academy Behaviour for Learning policy
• Take responsibility for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the academy
• Work effectively to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch
• Take responsibility for calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons.
• Manage detentions.
• 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 (including truancy sweeps and liaising with local shopkeepers)
• Ensure that students enter the building in full academy uniform and, if not, follow the agreed procedures

Please download the job pack for a full job description and person specification.

About Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form

Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form opened in a brand new and easily accessible state of the art campus in South Norwood in September 2018. Providing an outstanding vocational education, the sixth form prepares students for skills based work or transition to university for students in Croydon and surrounding boroughs. Integral to this new academy is an alternative provision centre, Harris Aspire, made up of both key stage 3 and key stage 4 pupils. Aspire takes a welfare driven, pastoral approach to supporting students in reframing attitudes to education, without sacrificing educational progress and attainment. Utilising a rich curriculum which blends both academic and vocational subjects, teachers and a range of therapeutic professionals work as one team to break down barriers to education whilst supporting the intellectual, emotional and social development of the pupils in our care.

Why work at Harris Professional Skills Sixth Form?

• The opportunity to be part of a brand new academy for young people in Croydon and the surrounding areas
• State-of-the-art facilities for each course, with modern classrooms and learning suites
• Excellent prospects for personal and professional development as the academy grows
• Generous Harris rewards and benefits.

The Harris Federation

The Harris Federation is the leading large Multi Academy Trust in the country for both primary and secondary education. We have an established reputation in transforming education in London and an unrivalled track record in achieving success through rapid school improvement.

Closing the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers has always been a core mission of the Harris Federation. We have transformed standards in schools that had, in some cases, failed for generations before joining the Harris Federation. Social mobility is the Holy Grail for the pupils we serve. The key to their futures is a high quality education.

We want every child in London to have the best possible education, enabling them to fulfil their potential and decide their own future.

We look for motivated support staff who are committed to helping us transform lives and who will share our belief that every child has the potential to do well.

Please note: academies may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. You will still be able to add information until the closing date, but you will not be able to submit your application. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

Harris academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the Harris Federation uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement. Harris Federation is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.