Behaviour Support Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Prescot, Merseyside, L35 6NY |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 56d88b5f-a610-4416-8ef9-575e132bdacb |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and compassionate Behaviour Support Officer to join our pastoral team. The successful candidate will ensure students have access to behaviour support throughout the school day and will promote positive behaviour, restorative practice, and student reintegration whilst supporting staff and engaging families in the process.
You will assist in managing whole school behaviour systems, supporting colleagues where student behaviour is causing disruption to teaching and learning and develop and lead interventions for students whose attitude to learning and behaviour is a barrier to their learning.
This is a non-teaching role offering a unique opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on students' personal development, wellbeing, and progress to ensure the highest standards of safety, attendance, learning, behaviour and conduct in order for every pupil to realise their potential.
This role would suit a solution focused, forward thinking and highly motivated individual with a driven and energetic approach who has strong pastoral instincts, excellent organisational skills and the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, and families.
Purpose of the post
To provide an essential aspect of our inclusion processes and work as part of a team to ensure students have access to support throughout the school day. You will assist in managing whole school behaviour systems and policy implementation.
To work alongside pastoral managers and pastoral leaders, SENDCO and external agencies to develop and lead interventions for students, whose attitude to learning and behaviour is a barrier. This includes planned and unplanned interventions, where students may need time to reflect, reset, and refocus to enable a successful return to learning,
Promote positive behaviour, restorative practice and student reintegration whilst supporting staff and engaging families.
What the school offers its staff
Our School’s mission is 'In Pursuit of Excellence’ in everything that we do and our core values; Learn, Think, Contribute, Care, embody our determination to ensure that all our students receive a first class education that enables them to take their place in society confidently.
We are a popular and high achieving school on the edge of Merseyside with a very strong reputation locally and significantly over subscribed.
Further details about the role
Specific duties and Responsibilities
Main duties
• Play an active part in the school’s student support system to identify students at risk and encourage and support them to manage their own attitude to learning and behaviour.
• Through the on-call system, support teachers in the management of disruptive learners and help reduce the behaviour management workload, allowing classes to focus on teaching and learning.
• Use restorative practices, trauma-informed approaches, and de-escalation strategies to support students with persistent disruptive behaviours or those in crisis.
• To plan, develop, deliver and review interventions programmes appropriate to the identified needs of the students.
• Lead on the delivery of structured 1:1 or small-group behaviour targeted interventions aimed at self-regulation, emotional literacy, conflict resolution, and lesson avoidance.
• Co-ordinate other external interventions that are available to support and improve targeted students’ attitude to learning,behaviour and engagement.
• Support the reintegration of students into mainstream lessons through targeted interventions and consistent behaviour management practices. Co-ordinate with teaching staff for smooth transitions back into the classroom.
• Collaborate with staff to ensure consistent implementation of strategies.
• Build relationships with parents of targeted students, including telephones calls/meetings/home visits, with the aim of improving standards.
• In liaison with the school leadership team, attend follow up meetings and other relevant meetings with parents/carers and/or other professionals to provide relevant information, offer support and seek ways in which the school can help in improving individual engagement in school.
• To liaise closely with the pastoral team, SENDCO, Behaviour Resource Base Manager, Safeguarding and Attendance teams.
• Complete any relevant paperwork that will further support students (e.g. individual behaviour plans, reports, external service referrals, contribute to evidence required for SEND referrals).
• To complete administrative duties as directed.
• Assist in the supervision of students when they are in lessons, before school, break time, lunchtime and after school.
• To work closely with your line manager to review your progress regularly in order to constantly improve provision.
Support for the teacher
• Collaborating with staff to ensure a joined-up approach to behaviour management.
• To support the teaching staff in addressing the needs of all students but especially those students who need particular help with behaviour management to overcome barriers to learning and improve student engagement and involvement in lessons.
• Share information about students with teachers and other professionals as required
Support for the student
• Support with the development, implementation and monitoring of individual Behaviour Support plans in partnership with the pastoral team and SEND team.
Support for the curriculum
• Establish strong relationships and work closely with pastoral team, safeguarding team, attendance team, Inclusion and SEND team and set clear expectations, and create a team culture of high standards and shared accountability.
Support for the Academy
• Be a visible and active presence, setting the tone through high expectations, positive relationships and consistent standards across the school.
• Support whole-school initiatives to promote positive behaviour and inclusion.
• Support whole-school supervision duties, taking the initiative in maintaining a calm and orderly environment.
• Be an ambassador for the school’s ethos and values, modelling the behaviours expected of every member of the community.
• Maintain the highest standards of professionalism in appearance, communication, and conduct.
• Work proactively to promote student inclusion, wellbeing, and personal development.
Commitment to safeguarding
Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and compassionate Behaviour Support Officer to join our pastoral team. The successful candidate will ensure students have access to behaviour support throughout the school day and will promote positive behaviour, restorative practice, and student reintegration whilst supporting staff and engaging families in the process.
You will assist in managing whole school behaviour systems, supporting colleagues where student behaviour is causing disruption to teaching and learning and develop and lead interventions for students whose attitude to learning and behaviour is a barrier to their learning.
This is a non-teaching role offering a unique opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on students' personal development, wellbeing, and progress to ensure the highest standards of safety, attendance, learning, behaviour and conduct in order for every pupil to realise their potential.
This role would suit a solution focused, forward thinking and highly motivated individual with a driven and energetic approach who has strong pastoral instincts, excellent organisational skills and the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, and families.
Purpose of the post
To provide an essential aspect of our inclusion processes and work as part of a team to ensure students have access to support throughout the school day. You will assist in managing whole school behaviour systems and policy implementation.
To work alongside pastoral managers and pastoral leaders, SENDCO and external agencies to develop and lead interventions for students, whose attitude to learning and behaviour is a barrier. This includes planned and unplanned interventions, where students may need time to reflect, reset, and refocus to enable a successful return to learning,
Promote positive behaviour, restorative practice and student reintegration whilst supporting staff and engaging families.
What the school offers its staff
Our School’s mission is 'In Pursuit of Excellence’ in everything that we do and our core values; Learn, Think, Contribute, Care, embody our determination to ensure that all our students receive a first class education that enables them to take their place in society confidently.
We are a popular and high achieving school on the edge of Merseyside with a very strong reputation locally and significantly over subscribed.
Further details about the role
Specific duties and Responsibilities
Main duties
• Play an active part in the school’s student support system to identify students at risk and encourage and support them to manage their own attitude to learning and behaviour.
• Through the on-call system, support teachers in the management of disruptive learners and help reduce the behaviour management workload, allowing classes to focus on teaching and learning.
• Use restorative practices, trauma-informed approaches, and de-escalation strategies to support students with persistent disruptive behaviours or those in crisis.
• To plan, develop, deliver and review interventions programmes appropriate to the identified needs of the students.
• Lead on the delivery of structured 1:1 or small-group behaviour targeted interventions aimed at self-regulation, emotional literacy, conflict resolution, and lesson avoidance.
• Co-ordinate other external interventions that are available to support and improve targeted students’ attitude to learning,behaviour and engagement.
• Support the reintegration of students into mainstream lessons through targeted interventions and consistent behaviour management practices. Co-ordinate with teaching staff for smooth transitions back into the classroom.
• Collaborate with staff to ensure consistent implementation of strategies.
• Build relationships with parents of targeted students, including telephones calls/meetings/home visits, with the aim of improving standards.
• In liaison with the school leadership team, attend follow up meetings and other relevant meetings with parents/carers and/or other professionals to provide relevant information, offer support and seek ways in which the school can help in improving individual engagement in school.
• To liaise closely with the pastoral team, SENDCO, Behaviour Resource Base Manager, Safeguarding and Attendance teams.
• Complete any relevant paperwork that will further support students (e.g. individual behaviour plans, reports, external service referrals, contribute to evidence required for SEND referrals).
• To complete administrative duties as directed.
• Assist in the supervision of students when they are in lessons, before school, break time, lunchtime and after school.
• To work closely with your line manager to review your progress regularly in order to constantly improve provision.
Support for the teacher
• Collaborating with staff to ensure a joined-up approach to behaviour management.
• To support the teaching staff in addressing the needs of all students but especially those students who need particular help with behaviour management to overcome barriers to learning and improve student engagement and involvement in lessons.
• Share information about students with teachers and other professionals as required
Support for the student
• Support with the development, implementation and monitoring of individual Behaviour Support plans in partnership with the pastoral team and SEND team.
Support for the curriculum
• Establish strong relationships and work closely with pastoral team, safeguarding team, attendance team, Inclusion and SEND team and set clear expectations, and create a team culture of high standards and shared accountability.
Support for the Academy
• Be a visible and active presence, setting the tone through high expectations, positive relationships and consistent standards across the school.
• Support whole-school initiatives to promote positive behaviour and inclusion.
• Support whole-school supervision duties, taking the initiative in maintaining a calm and orderly environment.
• Be an ambassador for the school’s ethos and values, modelling the behaviours expected of every member of the community.
• Maintain the highest standards of professionalism in appearance, communication, and conduct.
• Work proactively to promote student inclusion, wellbeing, and personal development.
Commitment to safeguarding
Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.