Behaviour Support Officer
Bishop Fox's School
Somerset
- £20,160 - £21,830 per year
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 January 2025
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a Behaviour Support Officer to join our dedicated, supportive and hardworking team.
The Behaviour Support Officer will play a vital role in supporting student behaviour and wellbeing within the school environment. This role combines overseeing the internal isolation room, supporting after-school detentions, conducting behaviour-related investigations and analysing behaviour data to identify patterns and trends to ensure appropriate interventions can be implemented.
Bishop Fox’s is a friendly, inclusive and successful school with over 1080 students. We were rated as a ‘good’ school in our most recent Ofsted report (2023) with many of our strengths highlighted. Our ethos of ‘High Standards and High Expectations’ underpins everything that we do. We work hard to create a caring and challenging learning environment in which each individual can strive, enjoy and achieve.
Staff are dedicated to building opportunities for students to achieve the highest academic standards, ensuring that they are known as individuals and that their unique personality, talents and interests are nurtured and developed to the full. A Bishop Fox’s education is about developing the whole child and providing opportunities for them to flourish within and beyond the classroom.
For a full Job Description, please visit the vacancies section of our website at https://www.bishopfoxs.co.uk/latest-vacancies/
Closing date for this post: Wednesday 8th January 2025, 9.00am.
Bishop Fox’s is committed to equality and safeguarding and raising achievement. We expect all staff to share these commitments. All posts require an enhanced DBS check to be completed.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement of the role.
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About Bishop Fox's School
Bishop Fox's School is a co-educational, non-denominational secondary school in Taunton, Somerset. At its most recent inspection, there were over 1080 students aged 11-16 on the school roll. The school has held academy status since 2012 and its motto is "High Standards and High Expectations".
Bishop Fox's School has received an Artsmark Gold Award for its extensive provisions and facilities for artistic expression. The town of Taunton has a population of 65,000, and is known for its historic monastery and castle. The school itself is located close to Richard Huish College.
Headteacher
Kerry Tonkin
Values and vision
At Bishop Fox’s School, an ethos of high standards and high expectations is at the core of all actions. The school works hard to create a caring and challenging learning environment in which each individual can strive, enjoy and achieve. Teachers have a strong belief in the power of education to change children’s lives and in the right of every child to receive an excellent education.
The secondary school is dedicated to building opportunities for students to achieve the highest academic standards, ensuring that they are known as individuals and that their unique personality, talents and interests are nurtured and developed to the full.
Ofsted report
“Leaders have developed an ambitious curriculum. They have identified the most important knowledge that pupils need to learn. The curriculum structure enables pupils to build on what they already know. There is academic rigour for all pupils. More pupils now continue to follow a strong academic curriculum, which includes a language and a humanities subject, into key stage 4. A few pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) follow a different curriculum to their peers. This curriculum is well matched to Inspection report: Bishop Fox's School 29 and 30 March 2023 2 pupils’ individual needs and future aspirations. Teachers and the SEND department support and challenge pupils with SEND to make the best possible progress.”
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