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Positive Behaviour Support Officer

Positive Behaviour Support Officer

Highgate Wood Secondary School

Crouch End

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Salary:
Haringey Support Staff Salary Scale 5 / Term Time / 36 hours a week
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2024
Apply by:
16 July 2024

Job overview

Positive Behaviour Support Officer


Support Staff Salary Scale 5 - Term Time - 36 hours a week

FTE £30,033-£31,440 - Actual pro rata £28,242 - £29,565.

Highgate Wood School wishes to appoint a resourceful, flexible and knowledgeable Positive Behaviour Support Officer for a September 2024 start.


The Positive Behaviour Support Officers primary responsibility will be providing support with operating the school’s behaviour support system.  You will work closely with the Positive Behaviour Manager, Senior Leadership Team and Pastoral Teams to promote the positive behaviour across the school reengaging the students and improving their academic performance. 


The ideal candidate will:       

  • Have the ability to form good working relationships with students and colleagues       
  • Have good oral and written communication skills       
  • Be able to adapt and be flexible in working practices and the ability to know when to use initiative       
  • Have a high degree of professionalism in your approach to work and tasks set       
  • Have an ability to be a good role model for students and colleagues       
  • Have experience of working with/caring for children or adults who have barriers to learning and/or special educational needs/behaviour issues      
  • Have experience working as part of a team


We can offer you     

  • The opportunity to work in a continuously improving school.         
  • The chance to join a talented and highly committed staff team.        
  • Excellent students who are keen to excel and operate in an ethos underpinned by the principles of courtesy, consideration, cooperation & contribution.        
  • Our commitment to provide CPD opportunities to ensure all staff continue to develop.        
  • A learning environment where imagination and commitment are encouraged and valued.


Closing date for applications: Tuesday 16 July 2024 at 09:00 am

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

How to apply: 

• To apply for this post, please download the application form this (TES) website or visit our website for an application pack and form, https://hws.haringey.sch.uk/about-us/join-us/vacancies/ 

Please note that CVs alone are not accepted in line with Safer Recruitment practices. 


Highgate Wood School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. Also, this post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations. 

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About Highgate Wood Secondary School

Highgate Wood School is a mixed comprehensive school providing secondary education to approximately 1600 students. The school is situated in a pleasant area in Crouch End and is surrounded by woodland and sports grounds.

Headteacher

Patrick Cozier

Ethos and values: The Highgate Wood Way

Our established values of Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation (the 4Cs), underpin the school’s behaviour ethos and what we call the Highgate Wood Way.

Our school motto is Everyone Matters, Everyone Achieves and this reflects our conviction that we have a duty to value every student as an individual.

We strive to be as inclusive a school as we can possibly be and provide a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for our students to enable their individual talents and creativity to be identified and nurtured.

The Highgate Wood Way is regularly celebrated and routinely promoted so that it is always something that is real and tangible. The Highgate Wood Way is far more than words on a page. It is the lived experience of our students and staff.

It is through the Highgate Wood Way that we bring to life our mission statement: "To inspire our students to be confident and open-minded through exceptional teaching in a caring school community”.

Ofsted Report

We are delighted our Ofsted report (November 2021) confirmed that Highgate Wood School continues to be good, and improving. The inspectors confirmed our governors and leaders know the school well and this accurate self-evaluation is allowing us to continuously raise standards.

Ofsted observed our “strong sense of community among pupils and staff” and noted that “leaders are passionate about building a school with a culture of inclusion at its heart”. They noted that our “pupils enjoy school and behave well in lessons” and are committed learners who want to achieve.” Ofsted also commented on how “pupils show respect for each other and the school celebrates the diversity of its community.”

Ofsted were impressed by the way our lessons have “focused and purposeful atmosphere” in which “pupils work hard”. They praised the way “subject leaders have given careful thought to the sequence of the curriculum and pupils build their understanding over time. Teachers plan opportunities for pupils to recall their learning at the start of each lesson” and “plan lessons which help pupils to make connections between the different parts of their learning.” Ofsted commented on the success of our sixth form and the way we have “high ambitions for all.”

The inspectors also saw how “pupils learn to engage with the wider world around them. Leaders expect pupils to be responsible, critical citizens.” and noted that “there is a strong sense of cohesion between staff from different departments in the school. Staff say that leaders support them with their workload and are responsive to their request. They are proud to work at the school.”

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