Behaviour Mentor

**Full Job Description**:
**_How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?_**

**Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

**Location: The Grange Therapeutic School, Oakham, Leicestershire**

**Salary: £21,000 per annum**

**Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5pm**

**Contract: Permanent; Term Time only**

Are you a Behaviour Mentor committed to improving the lives of pupils and young people? We are looking for a Behaviour Mentor to join our fantastic team at The Grange Therapeutic School.

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

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.

To assist in the organisation of a rewards system for the school and the encouragement of student responsibilities. To work with the Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion to develop and promote strategies to improve behaviour throughout the school. To coach students about how to manage their emotions and feelings leading to better self-regulation and self-management.

Desirable:

- Experience or working with pupils and young people within education provision.
- Experience of working with young people with challenging behaviour.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and attendance legislation/good practice.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of young people with mental health problems or other areas of SEN.
- Knowledge of SEN and impact on behaviour

**About us**

The Grange Therapeutic School is an independent special school for young people aged 8 -18 years with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Our school is based in a Victorian country house near Oakham with stunning views and fantastic facilities to develop not only the educational, but also the social and emotional needs of our pupils. With access to woods and lakes on site, the school has an ethos about delivering a personalised curriculum tailored to, and driven by, the individuals. Behaviour is currently rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted.

We need hardworking, pupil centred staff who are resilient and willing to go the extra mile. In return we offer significant investment in your professional development, a supportive staff group and opportunities for progression.

We are part of Acorn Care and Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

Acorn Care and Education is part of the Outcomes First Group.

**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 pupils 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.
- **_You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy._