Behaviour 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 Chobham Academy.

About Us

Chobham Academy is always on the lookout for inspirational and influential staff. Most of all, we are on the lookout for potential colleagues who like our students and want to help them succeed. In order to help our staff have the best possible experience and achieve a proper work- life balance, we have put into place a range of measures to benefit both our teaching and students services colleagues.

These include:

• An extra week of holiday for all Chobham staff
• Outstanding professional development
• Excellent promotion opportunities
• A constant dialogue about workload and how to manage it most effectively
• Rapid and effective support with any student behavioural issues arising
• A high-quality staff induction programme
• Clear communications and manageable deadlines
• Nursery on site
• Flexible and part time working encouraged whenever possible
• Focus on effective outcomes rather than time spent
• Ongoing celebration of staff excellence
• Generous Harris rewards and benefits package

We place high emphasis on staff wellbeing at Chobham. This helps colleagues to be happier and more effective in their work. Staff are regularly consulted about their wellbeing and the outcomes of these consultations have a direct and rapid impact upon the Academy’s approach to supporting staff wellbeing. 

Our staff are regularly consulted on the wellbeing services the school provides and we always try to respond to staff suggestions.  In this way, staff feel empowered and get more of the services they really want.  We are very proud of our wellbeing programme at Chobham and hope you will agree that it shows our commitment to making the school an exemplary working environment.

Main Areas of Responsibility

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 and between lessons

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

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

Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club

Ensuring that students enter the building in full academy uniform 

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.

To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the academy Leadership Group

To mentor students on PSPs, supporting successful achievement of targets and contributing to meetings/ reports in relation to student progress on PSP

To prepare student 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

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

To be a role model for the students in the Reflection unit

To provide the students with very clear expectations of conduct

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

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.