Job summary
Salary:£43,266 - £46,525 pro rata plus SEN allowance (£2,539 - £5,009 pro rata)
Hours per hours
Interview date:Monday 7 October 2024
Education and Skills - Building Bright Futures
Our Behaviour Support Service are looking for a Qualified teacher to join them and help play a key role in shaping school's approach to behaviour management and the creation of a positive learning environment.
Main duties of the job
As a Behaviour Support Teacher, you will practice your teaching knowledge, skills, and experience to assist colleagues in developing effective strategies for successfully including pupils with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) needs in their classrooms. Your responsibilities will include supporting the inclusion of pupils with recognised emotional wellbeing and behavioural needs, providing expert advice on teaching methods and intervention strategies. You will also collaborate with and offer support to individual staff members or pupils to enhance behaviour management techniques.
You will have some line management responsibility for Behaviour Support Assistants within the team.
We are seeking a Qualified Primary School Teacher with a minimum of 5 years experience teaching in a mainstream school. The ability to produce high quality reports and strong knowledge of current national legislation relating to primary education will be crucial. Excellent interpersonal skills alongside previous experience of leading a team with the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with teachers and school staff, Children's Services colleagues and other stakeholders will be essential.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To advise and provide training for primary school staff to enable them to manage the social and emotional needs of pupils, to promote inclusion and prevent exclusion from school.
Support for Schools:
- Supporting the development of a whole school approach towards the management of behaviour and the creation of a positive learning environment.
- Supporting the aims and ethos of the Wiltshire Behaviour Support Service
- Applying teaching knowledge, skills and experience to assist school colleagues in the development of appropriate skills to enable the successful inclusion of pupils with SEMH needs in their learning environment.
- Supporting the inclusion of pupils with recognised emotional wellbeing and behavioural needs.
- Raising awareness within schools and settings of the additional needs of pupils experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
- Providing training to school staff including headteachers, SENCos, teachers and other support staff to enable them to successfully include pupils with SEMH needs and implement aspects of a pupils individual support programme.
- Providing advice to Council Officers regarding meeting the needs and requirements of pupils with SEMH needs. Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- To work with schools to promote positive and pro-social behaviour as part of their school policy through coaching, mentoring, solution focused models of intervention etc.UPR-04 Behaviour Support Teacher (Primary)
- To work alongside school staff to undertake assessments whole school behaviour audits, individual pupil behaviour audits
- To provide advice on teaching, intervention strategies and writing programmes for pupils exhibiting behaviour that challenges
- To work collaboratively with colleagues within the team and from other specialist services School Effectiveness, SEND, Social Care
- To provide written reports to schools and other professionals
- To offer support to individual members of staff or pupils to improve management of behaviour
- To plan and deliver training in all aspects of behaviour support to school staff
- To target the work of the service most effectively and efficiently to encourage inclusion
- To attend relevant courses and conferences and research new initiatives to develop professionally and be able to manage projects to enhance service provision
- To be responsible for allocating and monitoring resources
- To be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of support to schools in order to inform improvement of the service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. QTS and a minimum of 5 years teaching experience
2. Team player with a flexible attitude.
3. Knowledge of a variety of strategies for behaviour and its implications for schools
4. Experienced primary school teacher.
5. Experience of working with pupils and young people with SEMH needs over time.
6. Ability to work independently, while working as part of the primary Behaviour
7. Support Service.
8. Good verbal and written communication skills
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10. Confident in the use of a range of information and communication technology
11. (ICT) as an integral element of work practice.
12. Through quality and style of interaction, able to influence the behaviours and
13. practices of pupils and a range of adults across different contexts.
14. Ability to work prioritise own workload.
15. Sound knowledge of child development
16. Committed to reflective practice and continuous service improvement.
Desirable
17. Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to
18. Working with, and the safeguarding of, vulnerable children.
19. Exclusion from school
20. Alternative provision
21. Ability to inspire confidence in both service members and others
22. Ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of partners
Experience
Essential
23. QTS and a minimum of 5 years teaching experience
24. Team player with a flexible attitude.
25. Knowledge of a variety of strategies for behaviour and its implications for schools
26. Experienced primary school teacher.
27. Experience of working with pupils and young people with SEMH needs over time.
28. Ability to work independently, while working as part of the primary Behaviour
29. Support Service.
30. Good verbal and written communication skills
31. UPR-04 Behaviour Support Teacher (Primary) Page 3 of 7
32. Confident in the use of a range of information and communication technology
33. (ICT) as an integral element of work practice.
34. Through quality and style of interaction, able to influence the behaviours and
35. practices of pupils and a range of adults across different contexts.
36. Ability to work prioritise own workload.
37. Sound knowledge of child development
38. Committed to reflective practice and continuous service improvement.
Desirable
39. Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to
40. Working with, and the safeguarding of, vulnerable children.
41. Exclusion from school
42. Alternative provision
43. Ability to inspire confidence in both service members and others
44. Ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of partners