Behaviour Mentor

London Teaching Pool, Ltd; Sefton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist education provider in Sefton is looking for a Behaviour Mentor to support secondary-aged pupils with complex needs including attachment disorder. Applicants should have a background in SEMH, SEBD, or ASD, along with experience in managing challenging behaviour. This full-time position offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment committed to the educational success of all students.

Benefits

Quality professional development

Supportive environment for staff

Opportunity to influence school culture

Qualifications

• Background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD.
• Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate (including MAPA).
• Current DBS on the update service.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with classroom teacher for curriculum activities.
• Assess children with learning difficulties to identify special needs.
• Liaise with professionals like social workers and therapists.
• Use individual education plans to support students.
• Build positive relationships with students and staff.

Skills

Experience with challenging behaviour

Excellent behaviour management skills

Knowledge/experience with children with SEMH

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the 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.
• Use highly personalised individual education plans to support students.
• Build positive relationships with young people and staff.

Qualifications & Experience

• Background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD.
• Experience with challenging behaviour.
• Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate (including MAPA).
• Experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
• Experience working with secondary aged pupils with severe complex needs including attachment disorder.
• Excellent behaviour management skills.
• Current DBS on the update service.
• Classroom experience and working with primary or secondary.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a special needs environment.

Job Details

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

Benefits

• 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.

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.