Teaching Assistant - Level 3 (Behaviour Mentor)

Teaching Assistant - Level 3 (Behaviour Mentor)

NJC12-16 £25,583

Full Time, Permanent

Join Our Team as a Behaviour Mentor!

Are you passionate about making a difference in children's lives? We are seeking a dedicated Behaviour Mentor to join our Highfields Spencer community, where our RISE values—Respect, Inspire, Success, and Empathy—guide everything we do. 

About the Role:

As a Behaviour Mentor, you will support our students in regulating their emotions and accessing their learning. Your nurturing approach will provide essential support to help children thrive both academically and personally. You will work closely with students to foster positive relati £onships, ensuring they feel valued and understood. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist children in developing self-regulation skills.
• Provide nurture support to create a safe and welcoming environment.
• Collaborate with teachers and families to help students reach their full potential.
• Promote a culture of respect and empathy within the classroom and beyond. 

Who You Are:

• A kind, patient individual who values building relationships with children.
• Committed to fostering an inclusive atmosphere where every child feels inspired to succeed.
• Eager to grow professionally with ongoing development opportunities. 

Join us in creating a positive impact on our students' lives! If you are ready to be part of a caring community that values every child’s journey, we want to hear from you. 

Apply Today!

Help us nurture the potential of our future leaders while embodying our RISE values every step of the way.

Spencer Academies Trust

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence. 

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

• All children have a right to quality education regardless of background or ability and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a 'family' and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for the quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

Please see our website for full employee benefits; http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf 

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact the school by emailing info@highfieldsspencer.org.uk 

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. 

Please submit your application by no later than 1st November 2023. Our application deadlines can end earlier, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible as we will contact you before the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.  Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. 

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656  

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer