Senior Behaviour Lead
Grace College
Gateshead
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 February 2025
Job overview
As a Senior Behaviour Lead, you will consistently promote the highest levels of behaviour and foster an environment where students are held accountable, motivated and engaged in a way that inspires them to achieve their personal best.
Responsible to the Assistant Vice Principal: Student Support, you will ensure that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline, including before and after the college day, through the leadership and management of relentless routines and social time procedures, including:
- Organising and leading the duties at the start and end of the day to ensure that students enter and leave the site safely and calmly, feeling welcomed by all staff
- Ensuring that relentless routines at the start of the day and at lesson changeovers are followed, managing the corridors to ensure that students arrive at lessons on time and that if they are late, they are escorted to the lesson and this is recorded, deploying the Behaviour Support Officers to ensure these phases run smoothly
- Organising and leading the procedures at social times, ensuring they are followed and that student conduct is safe and orderly, and making certain that any poor behaviour is followed up immediately
You will ensure the climate in college is safe, welcoming and focused upon learning through the leadership of the behaviour support function, with a particular emphasis on:
- Overseeing and directing the Behaviour Support Officers as they provide support to staff and students when things go wrong through proactive presence, reset and removal, ensuring that any incident of poor behaviour is addressed immediately and in line with the ESF Behaviour Policy
- Overseeing the behaviour support rooms so that when these spaces are used to address student behaviour, the climate is characterised by high expectations and that reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents from occurring
You will also reduce suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised interventions and support for behaviour, with a particular emphasis on:
- Analysing behaviour data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor behaviour, strategically deploying Behaviour Support Officers to areas of need
- Using data to ensure that when student behaviour is not exemplary over time that a staged response is used to address this that includes personalised intervention. Reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on behaviour data, improvements and actions required to address this
- Building strong relationships with parents and carers when students regularly demonstrate behaviour that is not exemplary and work with them to create intervention plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies
Salary: The salary will be competitively placed on the leadership spine for a successful applicant who holds QTS up to a maximum of L10 (£62,224). We are also inviting applications from applicants who do not hold QTS but have suitable and equivalent experience and qualifications; a successful applicant would be placed at a competitive salary point on the support staff scale.
As an 11–19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our strong Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide an outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee-centred and family-friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
For further information and to apply, please click here.
Closing date: 9.00am on 17th February 2025.
Interview date: w/c 17th February 2025.
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement, which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
About Grace College
Grace College is an 11-19 secondary school serving over 1200 students in central Gateshead. The school is committed to creating an outstanding learning community where students excel in their academic, cultural, co-curricular and personal lives. The College joined the Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF) in April 2019 as the fifth school providing a holistic education focused on developing character in and beyond the classroom. ESF seeks to: provide and support schools in which students and staff have the opportunity to work hard to achieve their personal best; encourage personal, moral and spiritual development within a Christian framework and create and sustain educational environments where everyone is equally valued.
Our schools are committed to assisting economic regeneration and prosperity in the north-east, and to improve the quality of community life through our work with young people. We aspire to impart wisdom to the next generation by educating young men and women in a school culture which prioritises the pursuit of knowledge and the development of character. We serve communities of students, staff and parents who hold many different religious and ideological positions who unite around our core beliefs and core values, which are underpinned by our Christian ethos.
We value academic excellence, but we hold personal best to be of far greater importance. It is our experience that by developing a strong work ethic, holding a growth rather than fixed mind-set, and being provided with outstanding tuition, students may go on to achieve considerably more than they might have imagined possible. We seek to be intentional about character education, our aim being that our students will, in the future, become servant-hearted leaders. Students starting here encounter consistent rules, role models and traditions, which help them feel part of the college community and to begin to take responsibility for others. As students grow older we expect more of them and in the Sixth Form expect our students to take on at least one formal leadership role in the college as well as beginning to serve in the wider community.
Our hope is that all students leave the college as well-rounded, qualified individuals who are able to articulate a viewpoint and back it up with substantial knowledge and understanding. Students are encouraged to achieve academic excellence to access first-rate employment opportunities or to gain access to outstanding universities across the country.
Grace College provides opportunities for colleagues to collaborate and develop professionally with others across ESF. We are committed to an extensive, high quality programme of professional development and to opportunities for career progression. Working within ESF provides an ideal opportunity for ambitious educators who aspire to future senior leadership and will benefit from input through our National Teaching School designation.
If you share our passion for excellence and would like to find out more then please contact us to make arrangements to visit the school.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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