Specialist Teacher for Behaviour

The job itself

Do you want to make a difference for children and young people in East Riding? Do you want a rewarding role, working within a supportive team of like minded individuals? Then why not join us in the Behaviour Support Team (BST). We are a well-established and forward-looking team of specialist teachers and support practitioners who sit within Children’s Specialist Services. The Behaviour Support Team work to promote the inclusion of children and young people with social and emotional learning difficulties, and behaviour that challenges in school settings across East Riding. This is achieved through providing support, advice, interventions and training around the needs of children and young people, (individually or in groups) to school based staff, working in partnership with parents/carers.

The Behaviour Support Team provides a wide range of research and evidence based training to education settings to support with successful social and emotional learning outcomes. We also contribute towards various events across the local authority including those for SENCos, DSLs and Senior Mental Health leads.

The service is available to all maintained primary schools, and academies as well as secondary schools with a service level agreement (SLA). Specialist teachers link to schools within a designated area of the county, which may be varied according to the changing needs of the service over time. You will work within a small peripatetic team of teachers and intensive support practitioners who all support schools on an individual basis.

We are looking for talented teachers with a good understanding of the social, emotional and behavioural development and needs of children and young people as well as having successful experience in supporting pupils with challenging behaviour in mainstream settings. You will demonstrate outstanding personal / professional skills which enable and empower mainstream school staff, and promote collaborative working by sharing skills and knowledge and inspiring confidence and high aspirations for achieving positive outcomes for all children and young people. The ability to manage challenging conversations over multi-disciplines as well as an inspiring and engaging delivery style of training are essential to the role.

The post is offered under teacher’s pay and conditions, therefore East Riding term-time commitments and holidays will apply.

For an informal discussion about the post and the Behaviour Support Team, please contact Karen Massey, Team Leader for Behaviour Support Team, on 01482 394000, selecting option 4, then option 1.