What skills and experience we're looking for
lnternal Exclusion Manager
(Senior Learning Mentor)
Part-time 2 or 3 days per week (Wed, Thurs & Fri), TTO + 1 week
Grade 7 Salary £31,067 - £35,235 (pro-rata to part-time, TTO hours)
To start: ASAP
“We are characterised by how we treat our people”
We are incredibly proud of our ambitious, curriculum focused, research-driven school. Our vision is built around the principles of ambition, respect and belonging and we have a strong commitment to the development of our staff as outstanding professionals.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and resilient person with the knowledge and skills to provide support to targeted students: to raise achievement and attendance and help them to overcome barriers to learning.
Supervising students who are internally excluded, the successful candidate will create an orderly and purposeful climate for learning; developing and implementing programmes which promote positive behaviours and reduce disaffection in mainstream lessons. Leading on small group work sessions to target specific behaviours that are occurring in school.
You must have the ability to work on your own initiative in a calm, supportive, consistent manner as part of the wider Climate for Learning team.
Essential: Significant experience of successfully dealing with challenging behaviours.
Desirable: Experience of developing, implementing and ongoing evaluation of strategies and counselling programmes for students.
What the school offers its staff
This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to contribute to our work and benefit from an excellent environment, where all staff are encouraged to progress their careers with us. We have great facilities ensuring that our students and staff have the best learning environment in which to achieve. SJT is a very positive community, with our recent staff survey showing that over 95% of our staff enjoy coming to work and are proud to be part of our school.
The successful candidate will fully embrace our ethos of Ambition, Respect and Belonging whilst bringing fresh ideas that will build on current strengths and achievement. A core pillar of our “belonging” ethos is that all in our community are known, valued and loved. We want all staff to share this commitment.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks. Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.