Assistant Vice Principal: Behaviour and Attitudes

About This Role

Responsible to the Vice Principal: Student Support and Student Development for:

Ensuring That All Students Consistently Show Respect For All And Exercise Self-discipline Including Before And After The College Day Through The Leadership And Management Of Relentless Routines, And Social Time Procedures Including

• Organising and leading duties at the start and end of the day, ensuring students arrive and leave the site safely, calmly, and with a strong sense of welcome and belonging, supported by a visible and positive staff presence.
• Implementing and upholding consistent routines during lesson transitions and at the start of the day, managing corridors to support punctuality, address lateness appropriately, and maintain a climate of high expectations and mutual respect. Behaviour Support Officers will be strategically deployed to ensure these routines are seamless and consistently followed.
• Leading and overseeing social time procedures to ensure they are consistently followed and that student conduct is calm, safe and respectful. Any instances of poor behaviour should be addressed promptly and effectively, reinforcing expectations and supporting positive change.
  
  

Ensuring The Climate In College Is Safe, Welcoming And Focused Upon Learning Through The Leadership Of The Behaviour Support Function, With a Particular Emphasis On

• Overseeing and directing the Behaviour Support Officers as they provide support to staff and students when things go wrong through proactive presence, reset and removal, ensuring that any incident of poor behaviour is addressed immediately and in line with the ESF Behaviour Policy.
• Overseeing the behaviour support rooms so what when these spaces are used to address student behaviour the climate is characterised by high expectations and that reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents occurring.
• Leading the detention systems to ensure high attendance, and actively promoting positive behavioural change, so that students are motivated to reflect on their actions and make amends, contributing to their long-term character development. Reducing suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised intervention and support for behaviour, with a particular emphasis on:
• Analysing behaviour data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor behaviour, strategically deploying Behaviour Support Officers to areas of need.
• Using data to ensure that when student behaviour is not exemplary over time, that a staged response is used to address this and includes personalised intervention. Reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on behaviour data, improvements and actions required to address this.
• Building strong relationships with parents and carers when students regularly demonstrate behaviour that is not exemplary and work with them to create intervention plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies.
  
  

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

Benefits

Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme (TPS for Qualified Teachers and LGPS for Support Staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
  
  

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.