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Behaviour Mentor - Full-time - Special Needs Position

Medway Green , Wouldham

  • Ref:MED886-6157-46S
  • Posted:06/12/2022
  • Pay:£21,000 per annum
  • Start Date:Asap
  • App Close Date:31/01/2023 at 13:00
  • Interviews:Asap

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Job Title:        Behaviour Mentor

Location:        Medway Green School, Rochester

Salary:            £21,000 per annum 

Hours:            37.5 hours per week; 8.30am – 4.00pm, Monday to Friday

Contract:        Permanent, Term Time only

We now have a fantastic opportunity for a Behaviour Mentor to join Medway Green School. If you are looking to join a new, highly dedicated team in a challenging and rewarding environment, we would love to hear from you!

We welcome applicants from an array of backgrounds working with children and adults in care, school support, sports and coaching backgrounds or similar professions and training

Main Responsibilities

To be actively involved in the support and monitoring of students’ behaviour by:

  • Assisting and managing the return of students back to the classroom.
  • Implementing agreed strategies to manage and improve the behaviour of students in the school.
  • Monitor and analyse the behaviour of students using the online behaviour management system.
  • Providing an on-call response to support teaching staff, when appropriate
  • Liaising with teaching staff to support teaching and learning.
  • Supporting students in following the rules of the school, helping to enforce school behaviour expectations.

About us

Medway Green School is a brand-new SEN provision in Wouldham, Kent. The school, when full, will facilitate up to 46 pupils aged 5-14 with a wide range of behavioural, social and emotional needs including ASC. The school site has recently undergone significant refurbishment.

This opportunity is within commutable distance of Rochester, Maidstone and surrounding areas.

Why join Acorn Education & Care?

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

  • Life Assurance
  • Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
  • “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

  • A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
  • 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
  • Cycle to Work Schemes
  • Electric Car Purchase Scheme
  • Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.

Information about the school

Medway Green School is a special needs provision that provides for students whose SEMH/SEN needs have resulted in placement breakdown at their mainstream schools. We provide a nurturing and welcoming environment to SEMH students in Key stages 1-3. Students will experience a personalised curriculum based on previous learning and identified needs. With a keen focus on therapy, education and personal development the school aims to help young pupils grow academically, socially and emotionally to enable them to achieve success as they progress through life.

Opened in 2019, Medway Green School presently provides education to 48 students. The next phase of our growth will grow our role to 67 students and introduce a KS4 curriculum.

Medway Green is a part of Acorn Education. Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education with accommodations for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

This opportunity is within commutable distance of Rochester, Maidstone and surrounding areas, with excellent access to the M2 and M20 motorways.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.