Behaviour Mentor

TLTP Education; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist school in East London is seeking a Behaviour Mentor to support students with complex needs, including ASD and mental health issues. The role involves managing behaviour, collaborating with teachers, and assessing individual needs. Candidates should have experience in special needs education and appropriate training certifications. This is a full-time, long-term position with the potential for permanency.

Benefits

Committed and enthusiastic staff

Quality professional development

Supportive environment focused on learning

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with SEMH.
• Current DBS on the update service.
• Classroom experience with primary or secondary pupils.

Responsibilities

• Manage behaviour and create positive relationships.
• Collaborate with teachers for appropriate pupil activities.
• Assess special needs of children and liaise with other professionals.

Skills

Excellent behaviour management skills

Building positive relationships

Team Teach or similar restraint training

Knowledge of SEMH in a Special Needs environment

Experience with secondary aged pupils

Job description

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 East London 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 include 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 a secondary aged pupils who has 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 is a full time/long term position and will lead to permanent if successful.

Responsibilities

• Excellent behaviour management skills
• Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
• Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate
• Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a Special needs environment
• Experience working with secondary aged pupils
• Collaborate with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the 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

• SEN
• EBD
• Mental Health experience
• ASD
• Excellent behaviour management
• Current DBS on the update service
• Classroom experience
• Working with primary or secondary
• Full UK driving Licence

Benefits

• Committed and enthusiastic staff
• Quality professional development
• An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and set the culture for achievement and progress for all 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.