Learning Support Mentor - Behaviour
Manchester Communication Academy
Manchester
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- A8 - A14 ( FTE £18,217-£22,448 ) to be pro rata for term time only working
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 October 2018
Job overview
Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.
Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience but the Social Investment Department is dedicated to offering opportunities and support to our local families and wider community. Together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.
Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us. If you share these values too, then we would love to hear from you!
Why work at MCA
Manchester Communication Academy is fully committed to its ethos with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.
We offer the following:
- Trust, Respect, Honesty and Kindness.
- Excellent career progression routes through a talent management strategy for those who are ambitious and keen to develop.
- We have a half day on a Friday with an hour's training from 1 to 2pm with a variety of teaching and learning communities to participate in.
- A staff well-being group who meet regularly to discuss workload and work-life balance and organise wellbeing and social events.
- Staff can take one 'flexi day' holiday per year
The key qualities we seek are those that demonstrate vision, the ability to work well within a team and to have a flexible approach. In addition to this, a commitment to inclusive education and community cohesion is vital.
Specific Areas of Responsibility:
· To monitor and support student behaviour, attendance and challenge under-performance
· To identify and manage appropriate sanctions and rewards in place to support students
· To work within the Internal Exclusion provision, ensuring a constant and pro-active approach at all times
Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 side of A4, font size 11 and should reference how you meet the criteria on the Job Description/Person Specification.
This role is 37.5 hours per week and term time only.
Closing date for application: midnight 17th October 2018
Manchester Communication Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure for a Regulated Activity via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Manchester Communication Academy
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- Manchester Communication Academy
- Silchester Drive, Harpurhey
- Manchester
- M40 8NT
- United Kingdom
Why Join Us?
Manchester Communication Academy is a highly successful 11-16 comprehensive school in north Manchester. In 2023, the school was placed in the top 10 % of schools nationally based on key stage 4 outcomes and has consistently secured student progress outcomes that are significantly above the national average.
Manchester Communication Academy is also host to Manchester Communication Research School, part of a national network of schools that is partnered with the Education Endowmment Foundation to support schools to effectively embed evidence informed practice that will break the link between family income and educational attainment. This means that the school is at the forefront of evidence informed practice and offers opportunities for involvement in wider national partnerships with other successful schools.
Manchester Communication Academy is part of Greater Manchester Academies Trust. Leaders and teachers across the Trust are driven by the aim of mitigating the impact of social disadvantage. This is achieved through a collective ownership from all leaders and teachers to prioritise the highest quality teaching and learning combined with effective partnerships with families and the wider community. We achieve this through recruiting on values; a significant investment in the highest quality, evidence informed professional development; and a highly skilled family partnership and social investment team.
The Trust is fully committed to it’s ethos of with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.
Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:
No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.
No written reports.
One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.
All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.
All funeral requests granted without question.
We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.
No meetings after school.
No additional cover outside of directed time.
Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.
All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.
We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning
exercises to see who we need to retain.
PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel
in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.
All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.
We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme
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