Behaviour Lead - Term Time

Estuary Academy North, Gravesend

• Ref:KCC886-1106-178S
• Posted:10/06/2025
• Pay:NJC SO1
• Start Date:Sept 2025
• App Close Date:27/06/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Do you have experience of working with behavioural and learning needs?

Would you be excited to lead a team of passionate staff, wanting to make a difference to the education of young people?

Do you love making a difference but want to advance your career?

Would you be excited by an offer of a wealth of professional development?

Do you have a particular interest in managing behaviour that we could upskill you in?

Would you like to progress and be awarded a more competitive salary?

If yes – then read on…

We have an exciting vacancy in our Kent and Medway Hub for a behaviour lead.

We are an Alternative Provision school in North of Kent. We have an outstanding reputation for developing skilled professionals in to exceptional practitioners.

We need a behaviour Lead who is able to help our students take the first steps on a life changing journey. Do you have the ability to understand mental health triggers and find the right supportive strategy? Can you provide stability and security so young people can overcome mental health adversity? Can you remind young people of the importance of learning and help them re-engage with their studies? Do you have brilliant de-escalation skills? Are you keen to lead a passionate team?

The ideal candidate will:

• Know behaviour is a symptom and needs to be unpicked and understood – focusing on ensuring learning time is not lost
• Have an awareness of SEMH needs and value the power of education to support these, ensuring that class teachers can focus on the lesson at hand
• Have an awareness of the impact that mental health can have on a young person and the barriers it can create, particularly limiting young people’s success in education
• Believe that our students can achieve anything they want and that we have a responsibility to support them, refocusing negativity and securing their learning
• Be proactive, we are not here to fire-fight!
• Be professional and set an example to their staff team
• Know that as a team, we all play a vital role in giving our students opportunities, experiences and, most of all, success!
• Have a creative and flexible approach to working with young people, even in the most challenging circumstances
• Be able to communicate effectively, direct staff appropriately and manage an enthusiastic team of refocus mentors
• Be able to liaise and meet with parents, being willing to have difficult conversations regarding behaviour
• Have the ability to competently and efficiently complete any appropriate admin tasks
• Want to grow and develop in this new role

Behaviour Lead: SO1 (£35,982 - £38,058). Full Time Equivalent.

Contract: Permanent pending successful completion of probationary period

Hours: 36 hours per week, term-time plus 5 INSET days

Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher (leading on engagement)

Responsible for: Behaviour team

 Our school is committed to Keeping Children Safe in Education. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory receipt of an enhanced DBS check and references.

Information about the school

Information about the school - Background to Alternative Learning Trust

The Alternative Learning Trust became a multi-academy trust (MAT company number 11788031) in June 2019. There are now six schools within the Trust, The Limes College, (Sutton), Estuary Academy North (EAN), Will Adams Academy, Nore Academy (Special SEMH Sheppey), Estuary Academy Island (EAI) and the Saffron Valley Collegiate. (Croydon). The Department for Education would like Alternative Learning Trust to consider taking in other alternative providers. The Trust has been established to work with Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and alternative providers who support vulnerable students to access and engage with education. Many of our students have special educational needs and have been excluded from mainstream education.

As a Trust we have the following core set of values for our staff and the families we support: • the need for people to flourish in all areas of their lives; • we are stronger through a sense of community; • social justice is vital.

Background to our Kent Hub - Estuary Academy North

Estuary Academy is located in Gravesend, Kent and has been on a considerable and fast-paced journey, making exciting and positive strides forward. We have an amazing team who are focused on providing the best outcomes for our students, promoting positive behaviour for learning and creating a high-quality teaching environment. Ofsted say that, ‘For many pupils, their time at Estuary Academy North (EAN) is transformational.’ We strongly believe in this moral purpose and seek to continue to grow the exceptional team working to achieve this. With the right facilities and a well renowned SEND department, now is the time to come and work with us. Ofsted outcome – Good with Outstanding for personal development.

Will Adams Academy

Will Adams Academy is located in Gillingham and joined Alternative Learning Trust in 2022. The school has recently reorganised their structure and is working closely with our Gravesend school in sharing facilities, expertise and curriculum development. Ofsted outcome – Good. Will Adams is our smallest Kent & Medway hub school with only 65 children but it is also home to our exceptional SEMH Assessment Centre and Apollo Training programmes which are commissioned by the Medway Local Authority.

Estuary Academy Island

Estuary Academy Island is located in Sheppey, the doors of our school opened in September 2024 welcoming 115 children and young people from the Swale district who displayed a need for SEMH support during the closure of a mainstream Island school. Estuary Academy is working very closely with the new schools on the Island to ensure that the right support is offered at the right time to children and young people with SEMH Needs. This includes an assessment centre, respite provision, long stay provision and a newly developed training provision soon to be available for mainstream schools.

Nore Academy

Estuary Academy is the first SEND Free School Academy for children with Social, Emotional, Mental Health Needs school on the Isle of Sheppey. Nore Academy is a newly built school with capacity for 120 children boasting enviable facilities including a purpose-built sports hall, 2 outside MUGAs (multi use games areas), on-site forest school area, as well as specialist classrooms including hair and beauty, a construction room, an art room and science laboratory. Nore Academy opening in January 2025 and is establishing itself as a supportive school in the heart of the Sheppey community.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Katie Murray
• Address:Estuary Academy North, The Westcourt Centre, Richmond Drive, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4DJ
• Telephone: 01474 332897
• Email: kmurray@estuaryacademy.co.uk

Documents

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• Behaviour Lead JD