£23,693.75 per annum

Full Time, Permanent

29 November 2024

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Job title: Behaviour Support Coordinator
Location: Meadowcroft School, Wakefield, WF1 4AD
Hours: 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £23,693.75 per annum
Contract: Permanent, Term Time only
UK Applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.
As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Behaviour Support Coordinator to join our close-knit team at Meadowcroft School located in Wakefield.
About the role
The post holder will manage and work as part of a team supporting the learning and behaviour of students. The post holder will provide practical support for individual students and work with the whole school to promote positive behaviour management.
Support to Students

• To provide positive role models for other support staff.
• To maintain dialogues with key people around individual children’s needs (for example: Community Leader, Pastoral Leader, Form Tutor, Class Teacher, Youth Service and Education Welfare)
• To provide other adults in school additional support in behaviour management through observation, shared planning and working alongside colleagues.
• To monitor and evaluate responses and progress against action plans through observation and planned recording, feeding back to appropriate staff.
• To assist in the taking of statements for any student involved in an incident that requires further investigation.

The right candidate will be/have:

• Educated to Level 3 (A level or equivalent)
• Evidence of continuous professional development in behaviour management.
• Experience of working with families and young people who have challenging behaviours in a variety of settings including secondary education
• An awareness of the current issues affecting young people
• Experience of managing in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with outside agencies
• Trained in counselling/behaviour management and child protection
• Knowledge of basic Microsoft packages: Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point – supported by achievement of ECDL or similar

About us
Meadowcroft is an independent specialist day school for pupils aged from 5 to 19, catering for pupils with a wide range of needs across 4 sites in Wakefield. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils.
We are part of Acorn Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.
Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.
Why join Acorn Education?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

• You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy.

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Welcome to Meadowcroft SchoolMeadowcroft school is based on four sites, The Lodge, The Gallery, The Hub and The Works, each providing very focused care for the children we support. All our children have complex social, emotional and mental health needs and many have additional severe learning and communication difficulties. Most of the children we care for have struggled to engage in formal education, so our job involves far more than simply providing an engaging and creative setting for them to learn in. We come alongside our children, take an interest in their lives and help them to overcome barriers that prevent them engaging in education.
The staff at our school know each child well enough to be able to set ambitious, realistic targets and put in place a structure of support to ensure they achieve them. Success looks very different for each child, so we take time to build personal plans and celebrate the progress they make.
When our pupils leave Meadowcroft, we want them to have secured the skills and confidence they need to find sustainable employment; developed interests and hobbies to keep them motivated; and learnt how to make and sustain healthy relationships. With these key skills, we know our children can be healthy, happy, successful adults.