Behaviour Mentor

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Kings Heath Secondary School seeks a dedicated Behaviour Mentor to enhance the social and emotional development of students. The role emphasizes communication, motivation, and inspiring young people while fostering a supportive school environment. Opportunities for training as a Thrive practitioner are available.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Friendly and professional demeanor.
• Ability to demonstrate a 'can do' attitude.

Responsibilities

• Support students in developing self-regulation and emotional resilience.
• Inspire, motivate, and challenge young people.
• Create a safe, caring and inclusive environment.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Communication Skills

Resilience

Tenacity

Job description

To start September 2025 or before if possible

Kings Heath Secondary School is a maintained school for 11-16 year olds. We have places for 795 pupils increasing to 840 pupils. From September 2024, the school changed designation from a single sex school to a coeducational school

Are you interested in working with young people? Do you have the skills to communicate with students? We are seeking to recruit a Behaviour Mentor to support our students in developing self-regulation and social and emotional resilience, independence and control in order to achieve their potential.

This role is integral to the future success of our students and the successful candidate will be committed to making a difference and improving the life chances of our students. You will have excellent administration skills and the ability to inspire, motivate and challenge young people to help them overcome barriers they may face in their education or their lives. This role comes with the opportunity to train and qualify as a Thrive practitioner.

Here at Kings Heath Secondary School, we have a friendly, supportive staff body – we invest heavily in training and CPD as we value all of our staff and believe in continuous professional development.

We have excellent pastoral provision for our students. This exciting new role is designed to enhance the broad offer in place for our students to support them to self-regulate and to grow into mature young adults in today’s society.

Our students come from diverse backgrounds and it is the positive community cohesion in our school which we celebrate. We have high expectations of our students in terms of attendance, punctuality, effort and willingness to take an active role in school life. School fosters a happy, caring environment where students feel safe to achieve the very best they can. Strong partnerships exist between the school, the students, their families and the community. We find our students flourish at Kings Heath Secondary because they feel supported, encouraged and enthused by all around them.

This is an exciting opportunity and we hope that you feel you can make a difference to our journey.

Visits to the school are encouraged to see us in action

You will need to be:

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Friendly and professional
• Demonstrate a “can do” attitude

• Be fully committed to providing a safe, caring and inclusive environment for everyone
• Have excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, resilience and tenacity

For further information or an informal discussion about the position, please e-mail Mrs C Holmes (HR & Cover Manager) on [e-mail] , applications to be e-mailed to [e-mail]

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Please note we do not accept CV’s