Behaviour Mentor

TLTP Education; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in London is seeking a Behaviour Mentor to support secondary pupils with severe complex needs. Candidates must have experience in SEMH and a current DBS. This full-time position offers opportunities for professional development and a supportive environment, aimed at engaging and assisting young people in their education.

Benefits

Quality professional development

Supportive work environment

Opportunity for permanent position

Qualifications

• Experience working with secondary aged pupils in a special needs environment.
• Knowledge of SEMH, SEN, and Mental Health.
• Current DBS on the update service.

Responsibilities

• Manage behaviour and build relationships with students.
• Collaborate with teachers to define activities.
• Assess and identify individual pupils' special needs.

Skills

Experience with SEMH

Behaviour management skills

Building positive relationships

Team Teach or similar training

Job description

Overview

Behaviour Mentor

Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training?

This specialist school based in Redbridge is looking for a special needs Learning Mentor with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEN school that caters for young people including depression, ASD, ADHD, Complex needs, obsessive compulsive disorder and attachment disorders.

Learning Mentors will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources. Learning Mentors must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs. This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.

Special needs Learning Mentors will be working with secondary aged pupils who have severe complex needs including attachment disorder. Students are academic and they range from mild learning difficulties to gifted and talented. Special needs Learning Mentors are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.

The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.

This role starts ASAP

Responsibilities

• Learning mentors will need excellent behaviour management skills
• Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
• Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate
• Collaborate with classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for pupils in relation to the curriculum
• Assess children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and work with colleagues to identify individual pupils\' special needs
• Liaise with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists

Qualifications & Requirements

• Learning mentors with experience working with SEMH within a special needs environment
• Experience working with secondary aged pupils
• SEN, EBD, Mental Health experience, ASD
• Excellent behaviour management
• Current DBS on the update service
• Classroom experience
• Experience working with primary or secondary

Employment Details

This is a full time/long term position and will lead to permanent if successful.

What the School Offers

• A committed and enthusiastic staff
• Quality professional development
• An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils
• Purposeful, happy and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre
• If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV

TLTP Group is an Equal Opportunities employer. Subject to observance of all UK and EU current legislation we shall not discriminate to exclude individuals on the grounds of age, race, colour, gender (birth or reassigned), sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, marital status, ethnic or national origin, health, pregnancy, childcare responsibilities or criminal records. Candidates from such groups are actively encouraged to apply.