Job Purpose:

 ·         Monitor and support students’ behaviour, progress, safety, well-being and attendance.

·         Be an integral part of the pastoral and behaviour team.

·         Work with students, staff, parents and external agencies, with the aim to help our young people participate positively to school life and experience success.

·         Support the staffing of our school reset and wellbeing facilities as directed by pastoral manager/assistant headteacher.

·         To act as a role model through delivering high quality pastoral care, engaging positively with continuous professional development and ensuring a professional presence.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Support the staffing of our school reset and wellbeing facilities as directed by pastoral manager/assistant headteacher.
• Support administrative tasks linked to detentions and the schools reset and wellbeing facilities.
• Support the staffing of detentions on a rota with the heads of year
• Liaise with heads of year to identify and work with key students
• Monitoring data and consistency of recording; communicating with parents; logging information on Arbor (MIS).
• Plan and carry out pastoral and behaviour interventions with identified students logging all communication and intervention appropriately.
• Support and mentor identified students, on a 1:1 basis, with pastoral care needs, logging all communication and intervention appropriately.
• Attend student support meeting, once a week after-school, as required.
• Attend/lead meetings as required - including parent meetings and outside agency meetings.

·         Investigate reported incidents as they arise in school.

·         Deal with issues in a positive manner, communicating actions to staff, students and parents as appropriate.

·         Manage restorative meetings as required.

·         Monitor behaviour through the producing and sharing of day-to-day data.

·         Be part of the Behaviour and Pastoral Team; monitor/analyse the patterns of behaviour to ensure the effectiveness of the strategies adopted by the school.

·         Encourage assigned students with Behaviour, Emotional and Social needs to participate positively to school life.

·         Support students with the process of improving their behaviour.

·         Guide and support assigned students in achieving their personalised behavioural and learning targets.

·         Support our whole school approach to behaviour management – especially our restorative and relational practice.

·         Support reintegration of pupils on return to school from suspension.

·         Contribute to the development of policies relating to behaviour management and well-being and undertake training with staff groups to ensure a consistent approach throughout the school.

·         Liaise and communicate with outside agencies: Early Help Team, social services (MK and CBC), CHUMS, police, school councillor, welfare officer, as necessary; attend appropriate meetings involving Team Around the Child, Child in Need and Child Protection.

·         Support vulnerable pupils: disadvantaged, looked after children, young carers and persistent non-attenders; help remove barriers to learning.

·         Liaise with the relevant members of staff, including the Deputy Head Teacher (DSL) and DDSLs, on issues of a pastoral and/or safeguarding nature, with active involvement in team meetings.

·         Be alert to safeguarding issues; log and pass on concerns as appropriate; deal confidentially and sensitively with parents and pupils undergoing difficulties.

·         Log issues, communications and interventions on the appropriate platforms such as Arbor and My Concern.

·         Support individual students to access lessons and learning, helping them to meet the expectations of the school.

·         Build strong relationships with parents, carers and families, making contact as required to ensure positive family support in meeting the school’s expectations. Communicate outcomes of meetings as required.

·         Contribute to the writing and implementation of support plans for identified pupils

·         Ensure all Health and Safety regulations are complied with, as well as school policies, for example Safeguarding, Data Protection and e-safety.

·         Ensure confidentiality is observed at all times.

·         Comply with any reasonable request from line manager or senior member of staff to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.