INTERNAL ALTERNATIVE PROVISION HUB MANAGER
Hounslow, Middlesex
Full Time, ASAP START 8:30 AM - 4 PM
The School is seeking to appoint an Internal Alternative Provision [IAP] Hub Manager with the personal qualities and skills to add value to a highly experienced multidisciplinary team. The successful applicant will work within the AIP Hub, delivering and coordinating support for students so that they develop better learning habits.
Strong behavioural management skills and an ability to diffuse difficult situations are essential as the role will involve working with students who can display challenging behaviour.
This Secondary Community School is a successful, vibrant, happy, and oversubscribed school where ‘pupils have high aspirations and want to succeed in education. Leaders have established the right school climate for them to do so. Pupils achieve very well in a wide range of subjects in the main school and sixth form’ [OFSTED December 2022]. We are now seeking to appoint an individual who shares our passion for learning and our determination to change lives through the education we provide.
We place great store in staff development, at all levels with an extensive programme of professional development, which offers a whole range of opportunities for colleagues to develop their potential within and beyond.
Overall Responsibility
The Alternative Provision Hub Manager is responsible for the supervision, behaviour, and welfare of the students within the provision.
Key Responsibilities
1. Manage the day-to-day provision of a robust and supportive IAP Hub for students who present challenging behaviour.
2. Coordinate the support provision for students who need help in overcoming barriers to learning by raising standards of behaviour.
3. Plan, deliver, and evaluate one-to-one and small-group interventions designed to make students reflect and better self-regulate.
4. Support reintegration processes for students back to the classroom.
5. Support children's safeguarding.
6. Work with the SLT and the Behaviour Committee to fulfil the aims of the IAP Hub.
7. Promote positive behaviour by reinforcing the School’s Behaviour for Learning Policy, liaising with colleagues as necessary and offering support as required.
8. Supervise students in the Alternative Provision Hub as they complete their work.
9. Work with the SLT and the Behaviour Committee, SENDCO, and other staff to identify students who need intervention and carry these out in response to these needs.
10. Engage students in self-reflection work, helping them to understand their triggers and moderate their behaviour.
11. Lead the development, implementation, review, and improvement of support packages needed to ensure pupils appropriately re-engage with their learning in school.
12. Discuss and meet colleagues, parents/carers, and students regarding disciplinary incidents as required.
13. Maintain clear and accurate records at all times.
14. Use specialist knowledge and skills to support positive student behaviour choices.
15. Work with students to identify, set, and monitor behavioural targets.
16. Provide feedback to students in relation to behaviour, both positive and negative.
17. Attend all relevant meetings.
18. Update Alternative Provision Hub register daily and report to attendance team any issues.
19. Communicate with parents and staff members about the progress of students in Alternative Provision Hub.
20. Create weekly reports and distribute to appropriate staff as directed.
21. Support the production of termly impact reports.
Broader Responsibilities
1. Work collaboratively as a member of the School Team.
2. Play a full and active part in the life of the School Community.
3. Support the safeguarding of students and staff.
4. Support the School’s distinctive mission and ethos.
5. Lead by example and from the front.
6. Encourage and ensure staff and students follow the example set and to challenge constructively when the standards set are not met.
7. Promote actively the School’s corporate identity and policies.
8. Continue to be a lifelong learner and encourage others to be the same.
9. Comply with the School’s Dress Code, Health and Safety Policy and undertake Risk Assessments, as appropriate.
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