Behaviour Support Officer

**Salary**:
£30,572 - £32,283 pro rata

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
ASAP

24 March 2025

**Job overview**:
Grace College is a place of boundless potential and we are seeking enthusiastic and proactive individuals to help support our students in achieving excellent attendance and becoming successful learners. This is a wonderful opportunity to join our school and help to ensure that our students consistently demonstrate respect, responsibility and resilience through rigorous routines and high behaviour standards.

As a **Behaviour Support Officer**, you will be responsible for:

- ensuring students enter and leave the site, safely and calmly feeling welcomed by all staff.
- managing the corridors to ensure that students arrive at lessons on time.
- ensuring that procedures at social times are followed and that student conduct is safe and orderly.
- supporting staff and students when things go wrong through the operation of behaviour support processes.
- monitoring student behaviour in lessons and supporting staff to address minor issues before they escalate.
- responding to first response alerts so that students reset their behaviour and prevent removal from lesson.
- carrying out investigations into behaviour incidents and summarising findings.
- managing the detention system so that students are held to account for their behaviour.
- contributing to the reduction in suspension and exclusion.
- overseeing the behaviour support rooms.
- monitoring daily behaviour data to identify actions that can be taken.
- building positive relationships with parents and carers to support students.
- ensuring parents are kept informed regarding more serious incidents or investigations.

**To be successful, you will have**:

- experience of working with children or young adults.
- a strong understanding of how a secondary school operates.
- experience of using School Data System (SIMS or similar).
- high expectations of student conduct and behaviour.
- a calm consistent approach to ensuring students work under the leadership of adults.
- excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to relate well to school staff, students and parents.

As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our strong Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide an outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.

Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee-centred and family-friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle scheme

**Hours**: Full-time, 40 hours per week term time only plus 3 days

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**Closing date: 9.00am on 24th March 2025.**
- Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement, which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website._

**About**Grace College**:
**Grace College**
- Saltwell Road South, Gateshead
- Tyne and Wear
- NE9 6LE
- United Kingdom

+44 191 442 2000

Grace College is an 11-19 secondary school serving over 1200 students in central Gateshead. The school is committed to creating an outstanding learning community where students excel in their academic, cultural, co-curricular and personal lives. The College joined the Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF) in April 2019 as the fifth school providing a holistic education focused on developing character in and beyond the classroom. ESF seeks to: provide and support schools in which students and staff have the opportunity to work hard to achieve their personal best; encourage personal, moral and spiritual development within a Christian framework and create and sustain educational environments where everyone is equally valued.

Our schools are committed to assisting economic regeneration and prosperity in the north-east, and to improve the quality of community life through our work with young people. We aspire to impart wisdom to the next generation by educating young men and women in a school culture which prioritises the pursuit of knowledge and the