Internal Exclusion Room Manager

35 hours per week term time only – salary will be adjusted to reflect these hours Starting September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter

Hours of work 8.30am until 4pm with 30 minutes for lunch

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. We want our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision is "committed to excellence". This summarises our core aim of continuous improvement. Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff team who are united in their focus on student achievement.

We are part of an innovative school improvement partnership with an organisation called Sycol. Through this, all members of staff in the school are part of a high quality leadership development programme. We run termly innovation improvement projects to ensure that systematic school improvement is embedded in everything we do.. These projects involve every member of staff which helps us quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team. The programme enables staff from across the organisation to lead sustainable change.

We are a small school at the moment with ambition to grow in size in the coming years, with a new building project on the horizon to help us with this. Despite our small size, we maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. Our ambition is for the school to have a STEAM focus (the ‘A’ is for Art). As part of our facilities planning process we have a long term plan to introduce a unique curriculum in Robotics to support students’ learning in STEAM subjects, whilst at the same time improving our performing arts and other curriculum learning spaces.

This role involves working closely with some of our most vulnerable students. The Internal Exclusion Room at Northolt High School serves two purposes. It acts as an alternative to Fixed Term Exclusion and students can be placed in the room for one or two days as part of the school’s sanction procedures. In addition, students who are struggling with a particular lesson may attend the Internal Exclusion Room for a single lesson. The Internal Exclusion Room manager needs to be skilled at offering pastoral and mentoring support to these vulnerable students. As part of the role you will be supporting students on a small group or one to one basis offering mentoring support. There are also some administrative duties involved in the role.

When the school day ends, the Internal Exclusion Room Manager is part of the team of staff who support a range of students in our Home Learning Club which runs after school each day.

As the Internal Exclusion Room Manager you will be line managed by our Student Support Coordinator and will be part of the team who are responsible for running our mentoring provision. We are currently funded by the GLA to run an innovative Stepping Stones mentoring programme for our Year 7 students which is proving to be very successful.. Students also benefit from mentoring provision from a range of external services.

We are looking for an excellent practitioner who will:

• Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of school-wide continuous improvement;
• Develop strong pastoral relationships with vulnerable students enabling them to reflect and develop;
• Have strong, positive behaviour management skills and be adept at supporting students who may be at a moment of crisis;
• Work well as part of the pastoral team;
• Contribute to the wider life of the school.

We can offer you:

• Great support and training as you develop your career;
• The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our school;
• A caring and supportive professional environment;
• A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to balancing workload.

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website: www.northolthigh.org.uk 

Please email your application to the Headteacher’s PA at: ​lweeks@northolthigh.org.uk​ 

Closing date : 9am, Monday 9th September 2019

Interviews: Wednesday 11th September 2019

The school is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment processes are always robustly followed. Successful candidates’ appointment will be subject to safer recruitment checks and satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check.. Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about