Intervention Education Centre Manager
Sandwell Academy
Sandwell
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive, dependent on experience and hours
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 25 November 2024
Job overview
Are you passionate about supporting young people through challenging times? Do you have the resilience, empathy, and commitment to help students reflect on their choices and build positive pathways?
Sandwell Academy is looking for a dedicated Intervention Education Centre (IEC) Manager to join our team.
About Us
At Sandwell Academy, we are guided by our core values: be brave, be kind, be proud. We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive environment that fosters growth, respect, and achievement for all students. Recently, our new welfare system has reduced suspensions by promoting restorative practices and targeted interventions. Our IEC Manager plays a key role in this approach, helping students reflect on their actions and supporting their reintegration into the classroom.
The Role
As our IEC Manager, you will:
- Supervise and support students in the Intervention Education Centre, ensuring a calm, respectful, and structured environment.
- Work with students one-on-one to help them reflect on their behaviour and develop strategies for improvement.
- Support students on a reintegration plan, preparing them for a successful transition back into their regular classes.
- Organise work for students in line with their daily timetable, ensuring they stay engaged with their curriculum.
- Update Heads of Year on students' daily progress, providing essential insights for ongoing support.
- Collaborate with pastoral, welfare, and teaching teams to create individualised plans for each student.
- Maintain accurate records and communicate with staff, students, and parents regarding progress and support.
- Foster a positive, restorative approach to behaviour that aligns with our school values.
Who We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone who:
- Has experience in a pastoral, behaviour management, or similar role within an educational setting.
- Demonstrates empathy, patience, and strong interpersonal skills.
- Can maintain a calm and positive approach when working with challenging behaviour.
- Has excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Shares our commitment to fostering a positive school culture.
Join our team and help make a difference in the lives of our students.
For more information, and to request an application pack, please contact Paul Hunt at Hays Education on
T: 07921583731
Closing date for applications: Monday 25 November 2024.
Please also see our recruitment site for more information about working at Sandwell Academy: https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sandwell-academy/
Sandwell Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children so you will need to take an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. We are committed to promoting Equal Opportunities and therefore only applications submitted on the Academy’s application form will be considered.
About Sandwell Academy
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About the Academy
Sandwell Academy opened in September 2006 and in January 2014 was judged outstanding by Ofsted for the second time. We offer you the opportunity to make a positive contribution in this over-subscribed school which specialises in Sport and Business Enterprise in the culturally diverse borough of Sandwell. The Academy educates approximately 1250 students, including the Sixth Form. Students benefit from a broad curriculum, a flourishing extra-curricular programme, a safe and caring environment with high levels of pastoral support and an emphasis on traditional values of good behaviour, mutual respect and excellent attendance.
All staff play an important role in establishing a positive and caring school ethos, where a culture of success and celebration is consistently promoted. Successful candidates will enjoy an 80% teaching commitment and the benefits of working in state of the art facilities and an environment of developing education initiatives.
Sandwell Academy is sponsored by Tarmac, the Mercers Company, Thomas Telford School and West Bromwich Albion FC. The Academy works closely as part of a family of schools including Madeley Academy, Walsall Academy and Thomas Telford School.
Aims
The general aim of Sandwell Academy is to maximise student performance in all its forms. We offer a broad curriculum which includes the National Curriculum with the opportunity of specialising in Physical Education and Business Enterprise. In the Post 16 phase, we provide a wide range of vocational and academic opportunities for students of all abilities, emphasising opportunities in Physical Education, Sport, Business Enterprise and use of Information Technology when appropriate.
Objectives
- To improve attendance to that above local and national average.
- To develop qualities of enterprise, self reliance and responsibility.
- To involve, as fully as possible, the wider community, including industry, business, commerce and parents in the education and training of the students.
- To operate a longer school day.
- To share research with the neighbouring schools and the educational community and where possible support collaborative developments locally.
- To remove the artificial barrier that exists between vocational and A-Level courses.
- To improve Post 16 staying on rates to those comparable with France, Germany, USA and Japan.
- To deliver the National Curriculum with extra Physical Education and Business Enterprise.
- To develop students as independent learners, preparing them for life long learning.
- To ensure that all students obtain their educational entitlement, irrespective of gender, religion or special need.
We expect great things from our students; teachers and parents work together with commitment and dedication to achieve success.
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