Behaviour Officer

The Role

The Behaviour Officer will support the pastoral team working across all year groups in the academy, providing operational support to the Assistant Principal-Behaviour, the Senior Behaviour Manager and Directors of Learning (DoLs). 

The post-holder will be expected to, alongside DoLs, support the monitoring of students’ behaviour and attitude to learning across, liaising with teachers and subject leaders and offering assistance where necessary. They will support the effective running of internal exclusions, “on-call” and detention duties. They will be also act as a key point of contact for parents, and should maintain positive, professional relations with all our parent community.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the school’s detention system, ensuring student attendance is accurately recorded and non-attendance/misbehaviour in detention is followed up.

• To support the effective running of internal exclusions and on-call duties. 

• To support day to day management of student behaviour, acting as a role model for students and staff by demonstrating high quality pastoral care and support, rigorous expectations and a visible, professional presence with students. 

• To plan and deliver behaviour intervention programmes to support students to reflect and improve their conduct.

• To be responsible for the improvement of student conduct for a small group of students who need to improve engagement in their learning and who are at high risk of exclusions, fixed term or permanent.

• To support all academy senior and middle leaders with regard to implementing academy behaviour systems. 

• To support the monitoring of student behaviour and, where necessary, refer students to the academy’s therapy and learning mentor services, in order to improve behaviour and student well-being. 

• To maintain communication with parents and carers to ensure the behaviour systems implemented within the school are supported and communicated clearly to parents. 

• To understand the range of barriers to learning that impact on student progress, with reference to behaviour and attitudes to learning in and out of the classroom.