HLTA Behaviour Support
Kensington Aldridge Academy, London, W10 6EXThis job expired on 21 November 2018 – see similar jobs
Closing date
21 November 2018 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
9 November 2018
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,941 to £27,875
HLTA Behaviour Support job summary
The Role:
The HLTA Behaviour Support will support the Assistant Principal - Behaviour and the pastoral team working vertically across all year groups in the academy, providing operational support to the Assistant Principal 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 all year groups, liaising with teachers and subject leaders and offering assistance where necessary. They will have delegated responsibility for some aspects of our behaviour policy, for example 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.
It is not a requirement for the post-holder to hold qualified teacher status and applications are welcome from outside of the education sector with relevant experience in behaviour management in children and young people.
Key Responsibilities:
• 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 support the effective running of internal exclusions, on call and detention duties.
• 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.
Outcomes and activities:
• To maintain regular formal and informal contact with staff to ensure high quality and consistent provision.
• To understand all the different care and guidance available for students, which includes Learning Support, Grandin Centre (KAA’s Autism Unit), Place2Be therapy, mentoring, teaching assistants and services provided by external agencies.
• To provide a link for parents, tutors, SEN team, teachers, subject leaders, SLT and external agencies.
• To initiate and respond to communications with parents ensuring that they are kept fully informed and involved in the progress of their children.
• To oversee students on report and make contact with parents when necessary.
• To oversee elements of positive behaviour management.
Person Specification
Qualification criteria
• Qualified Teacher Status is not mandatory for this role but we are aspiring to recruit an individual with demonstrable pastoral experience in a school setting or other relevant experience in working with children and young adults
• Permitted to work in the UK
• Evidence of relevant and substantial CPD
General - experience of:
• Having contributed to the work of MLT team which has resulted in the success of the wider school.
• Effective engagement with external partners (e.g. parents, agencies).
• Supporting intervention programmes at a department/year group/whole school level that have had a proven and sustained impact on attitude and attainment.
• Tracking and monitoring identified groups and designing intervention programmes which have shown a positive impact on behaviour and progress.
General attributes:
• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills:
o the ability to delegate
o the use of effective time management
o the ability to prioritise
• Resilience and motivation to support the academy through day-to-day challenges whilst maintaining a clear strategic vision, staying positive, and focusing on key priorities.
• Genuine passion and belief in the potential of every student.
• Strategic thinking and the potential to adopt an entrepreneurial approach to the role.
• An educational vision aligned with the academy’s high aspirations and high expectations of themselves and others.
• A clear understanding of the strategies required to establish consistently high standards of results and behaviour in a complex inner city school and commitment to relentlessly instilling these strategies.
• An ambassadorial approach in all dealings with the community and subsequently to be positive and successfully market the academy in the community.
• Skilful management and maintenance of working relationships with parents and other stakeholders.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and the post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children. No job description can be fully comprehensive, and from time to time the successful candidate may have to undertake other professional duties as directed by the Principal. In addition, as a member of staff in a start-up academy, Teachers should understand their role may well broaden and that all roles will be reviewed annually to ensure the team is working as efficiently as possible.
Please download the enclosed Job Supporting Document which includes a full candidate pack and submit the attached completed application form to Payal Joshi by email via the button below if you are interested in the role. Please note that we cannot accept CVs.
Please also complete the Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form attached below.
https://goo.gl/forms/eh8N7EiLSyU6BIuE2
Deadline: Apply by 9am on Wednesday 21st November 2018
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. The post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About Kensington Aldridge Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1281 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Kensington Aldridge Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@kaa.org.uk
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