Behaviour Mentor. Job in London Education & Training Jobs

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

Job summary

A leading education provider in Greater London is seeking a Behaviour Mentor to support students with SEMH needs. The successful candidate will work closely with challenging children and young people, ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment. Responsibilities include building relationships, assessing needs, and collaborating with educators and professionals. This full-time position offers a chance to positively impact students' lives and leads to permanent status upon success.

Benefits

Quality professional development

Supportive environment

Opportunity to shape school culture

Qualifications

• Experience with SEMH, SEBD or ASD.
• Team Teach or MAPA training is preferred.
• Experience working with challenging children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Excellent behaviour-management skills.
• Build positive relationships with young people and staff.
• Collaborate with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities.
• Assess children with learning difficulties.
• Liaise with other professionals in the community.

Skills

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

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. The school caters for young people with 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. They must have experience working with mental‑health problems and complex SEN needs. The school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable learning environment.

Special‑needs learning mentors will work with secondary‑aged pupils who have severe complex needs including attachment disorder. Students are academic and range from mild learning difficulties to gifted and talented.

Special‑needs learning mentors are given opportunities to succeed through highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students. The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with nurses, doctors, therapists at the centre and a wide range of professionals in the community.

Responsibilities

• Excellent behaviour‑management skills.
• 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 pupils in relation to the curriculum.
• Assess children who have long or short‑term learning difficulties and work with colleagues to identify their special needs.
• Liaise with other professionals such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists.

Skills and Experience Required

• 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

• A 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.

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

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.