Behaviour Mentor

The School
A large primary school is known for establishing fantastic relationships families it serves. The staff are committed to ensuring children identified as having additional needs have access to a broad and challenging curriculum. Self-regulation and emotional development are a high priority for this school. The staff are extremely supportive and committed to continued professional development.

The Role
You will be supporting an individual pupil to develop positive self-regulation skills and improve their engagement with the curriculum. You will also be leading one-to-one activities with this pupil, under the guidance of the class teacher and SENDCo. The pupil has a plan in place with established targets on it. You will be working towards these targets as well as reflecting on the progress made and creating new targets.

Main Responsibilities

• Support individual pupil to develop positive self-regulation skills
• Use pre-determined strategies to manage challenging behaviour
• Deliver planned interventions
• Ensure pupil safety and welfare is maintained at all times
• Feedback to class teacher and SENDCo
• Liaise with parents about progress/areas for development

Essential Criteria

• Remain calm in challenging situations
• Build trusting relationships
• Good listening skills
• Ability to adapt and use own initiative
• Patience and resilience

Desirable Criteria

• Team Teach training/experience
• Education/Teaching Assistant qualification
• Prior experience working in a school or nursery