Positive Behaviour Support Officer

**Highgate Wood Secondary School** Crouch End £28,242 - £29,565 per year Expiring soon **Salary**: Haringey Support Staff Salary Scale 5 / Term Time / 36 hours a week **Job type**: Full Time, Permanent **Start date**: October/Immediate 19 September 2024 **Job overview**: **Positive Behaviour Support Officer**: Support Staff Salary Scale 5 - Term Time - 36 hours a week FTE £30,033-£31,440 - Actual pro rata £28,242 - £29,565. Highgate Wood School wishes to appoint a resourceful, flexible and knowledgeable Positive Behaviour Support Officer for an October/or immediate start. The Positive Behaviour Support Officers primary responsibility will be providing support with operating the school’s behaviour support system. You will work closely with the Positive Behaviour Manager, Senior Leadership Team and Pastoral Teams to promote the positive behaviour across the school reengaging the students and improving their academic performance. - Have the ability to form good working relationships with students and colleagues - Have good oral and written communication skills - Be able to adapt and be flexible in working practices and the ability to know when to use initiative - Have a high degree of professionalism in your approach to work and tasks set - Have an ability to be a good role model for students and colleagues - Have experience of working with/caring for children or adults who have barriers to learning and/or special educational needs/behaviour issues - Have experience working as part of a team We can offer you - The opportunity to work in a continuously improving school. - The chance to join a talented and highly committed staff team. - Excellent students who are keen to excel and operate in an ethos underpinned by the principles of courtesy, consideration, cooperation & contribution. - Our commitment to provide CPD opportunities to ensure all staff continue to develop. - A learning environment where imagination and commitment are encouraged and valued. Interviews will be w/c: 23 September 2024. How to apply: Please note that CVs alone are not accepted in line with Safer Recruitment practices.**Attached documents**: - Job Description 97.28KB Person specification 544.4KB Inspection report 138.71KB Recruitment monitoring form 42.64KB Child protection policy 968.92KB School prospectus 14.29MB Brochure 1.36MB Letter from the headteacher 1.21MB Declaration For Application Pack 80.5KB **About **Highgate Wood Secondary School**: **Highgate Wood Secondary School** - Montenotte Road London N8 8RN United Kingdom +44 20 83427970 View on Google Maps Visit employer website Highgate Wood School is a mixed comprehensive school providing secondary education to approximately 1600 students. The school is situated in a pleasant area in Crouch End and is surrounded by woodland and sports grounds. **Headteacher** Patrick Cozier **Ethos and values: The Highgate Wood Way** Our established values of Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation (the 4Cs), underpin the school’s behaviour ethos and what we call the Highgate Wood Way. Our school motto is _Everyone Matters, Everyone Achieves_ and this reflects our conviction that we have a duty to value every student as an individual. We strive to be as inclusive a school as we can possibly be and provide a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for our students to enable their individual talents and creativity to be identified and nurtured. The Highgate Wood Way is regularly celebrated and routinely promoted so that it is always something that is real and tangible. The Highgate Wood Way is far more than words on a page. It is the lived experience of our students and staff. It is through the Highgate Wood Way that we bring to life our mission statement: "To inspire our students to be confident and open-minded through exceptional teaching in a caring school community”. **Ofsted Report** We are delighted our Ofsted report (November 2021) confirmed that Highgate Wood School continues to be good, and improving. The inspectors confirmed our governors and leaders know the school well and this accurate self-evaluation is allowing us to continuously raise standards. Ofsted observed our “strong sense of community among pupils and staff” and noted that “leaders are passionate about building a school with a culture of inclusion at its heart”. They noted that our “pupils enjoy school and behave well in lessons” and are committed learners who want to achieve.” Ofsted also commented on how “pupils show respect for each other and the school celebrates the diversity of its community.” The inspectors also saw how “pupils learn to engage with the wider world around them. Leaders expect pupils to be responsible, critical citizens.” and noted that “there is a strong sense of cohesion between staff from different departments in the school. Staff say that leaders support them with their workload and are responsive to