Reflection Room Manager - Term Time

The Canterbury Academy Trust

• Ref:KCC-F83-150-S
• Posted:03/04/2025
• Pay:TCAT Pay range 5- £25,252 to £26,262
• Start Date:TBC
• App Close Date:12/05/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Job Overview:
The Reflection Room Manager is responsible for providing a structured, supportive, and positive learning environment for students who have been temporarily removed from mainstream lessons due to behaviour issues. This role aims to support students in reflecting on their actions, while ensuring that learning continues in a meaningful and productive way. The Reflection Room is not a punishment but an intervention designed to support students' reintegration into regular lessons by addressing the root causes of behaviour and promoting personal growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervision & Management: Oversee the daily operation of the Reflection Room, ensuring a safe, respectful, and productive environment.
• Educational Support: Provide quality, curriculum-aligned educational support to students within the Reflection Room, ensuring all students engage in meaningful learning activities.
• Reflective Conversations: Facilitate reflective conversations with students to help them understand their behaviour and work on strategies for positive reintegration.
• Collaboration with Staff: Work closely with the SEND, attendance, ethos, and safeguarding teams to provide holistic support to students.
• Communication with Parents: Notify and update parents about any students placed in the Reflection Room, discussing the reasons for the placement and strategies to support their reintegration.
• Record Keeping & Monitoring: Maintain accurate records of student attendance, behaviour, work completed, and progress during their time in the Reflection Room.
• Work Supervision: Ensure that students complete work assigned by their regular teachers and that assessments are returned for marking.
• Reporting & Analysis: Track and report trends in student behaviour and attendance, providing insights for intervention and ongoing support.
• Reintegration Support: Assist students in reintegrating smoothly back into their regular lessons and school routines, ensuring their continued success.
• Additional Duties: Undertake any other duties as required by the SVP for Behaviour and other school leadership staff.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience working with young people in a behavioural support or educational setting.
• Strong understanding of child development, behaviour management techniques, and the impact of SEND or social challenges on learning.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage students, staff, and parents.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team while also independently managing responsibilities.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills, including experience with record-keeping and reporting.
• A calm, patient, and empathetic approach to managing students in challenging situations.

Qualifications:

• GCSEs or higher to a good standard including English, Maths and Science.
• Behaviour management training or experience in a school setting is desirable.

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a dedicated team making a real difference in students’ lives.
• Opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment focused on student welfare and academic success.
• Ongoing professional development and support to grow your career in education.

If you're ready to make a positive impact and help students grow both academically and personally, we would love to hear from you!

Information about the federation

Based in the heart of the historic City of Canterbury, The Canterbury Academy Trust came into existence in October 2010 when schools judged by Ofsted to be ‘outstanding’ were allowed to convert to academy status, benefit from greater freedoms and shape their futures.

Since then The Canterbury Academy Trust has grown and it now provides a variety of services ‘to improve the life chances of children and to help in the community’. These include: City View Pre-School and Nurseries Ltd; a newly built and expanded two form of entry The Canterbury Primary School; a Specialist Resourced Based Provision for primary ASD pupils; The Canterbury Academy, which has expanded to take an additional form of entry; a Specialist Resourced Based Provision for secondary Speech and Language students; The Cullum Centre, in partnership with The National Autistic Society; The Sixth Form, Enterprise and Employability Centre, which includes one of the largest Sixth Forms in Kent; The Canterbury Youth Commission, The Ashford Youth Commission, and area wide Inclusion and Engagement Service and Professional Learning and Community Centre with café.

The Canterbury Academy Trust consists of ‘schools for all the talents’. Our beliefs which underpin and drive all we do are simple. We believe that every learner matters and that every child is good at something – that all children walk with genius – and that school should be the place where children discover and build upon their own individual talents.

We believe in the comprehensive ideal. We believe that all students should be valued. We believe that academic excellence is important but that there are also other important things. We believe that art, music, drama, sport, practical skills, being a good person, caring for and working with others are all valuable. We believe in team work and that all of our students should have pride in themselves and their contribution to their school.

Our aim is to provide ‘as much as possible, as often as possible, for as many as possible’. We believe that education and learning can be fun. At the end of their time with us we aim for all students to leave as happy, positive, confident individuals, proud of what they have achieved, prepared to be life-long learners and ready to play an active and constructive part in society.

The Canterbury Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. All posts will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty. A satisfactory DBS disclosure must be presented to the Academy before any employment can commence. In line with KCSIE guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, The Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and any relevant information found, concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children, will be discussed at the interview stage.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs Clare Dicks
• Address:Knight Avenue,
  Canterbury,
  Kent,
  CT2 8QA
• Telephone: 01227 463971
• Email: recruitment@canterbury.kent.sch.uk

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