Behaviour Support Manager - Tewkesbury Academy
Tewkesbury
Grade £30,700 - £33,951
Allowances (Not applicable)
Hours Full Time
Contract Permanent
Closing Date: 31/05/2026
Interview Date: TBA
Start Date 03/09/2026
Tewkesbury Academy is seeking an experienced, committed and resilient Behaviour Support Manager to join the academy team. This role is central to promoting and safeguarding students’ welfare, securing high expectations for conduct, engagement and achievement, and ensuring a consistent, restorative and trauma-informed approach to behaviour across the academy.
Job Title: Behaviour Support Manager
Actual Annual Salary:£30,700-£33,951 (Based on hours and weeks worked)
Full Time Equivalent Salary:£35,852 - £39,649 (CLF Grade E)
Based on full time hours, all year round.
Contract Type:Permanent?
Hours:37 hours per week - Full Time,
Term Time Only plus Inset days.
Provisional Start Date:03 September 2026
(Upon completion of pre-employment checks)
An opportunity to promote students’ welfare, engagement and achievement by leading high-quality behaviour provision, helping students overcome barriers to learning and secure a positive and successful school experience.
As a Behaviour Support Manager, you will lead the Reflection and Ready to Return Rooms, creating calm, structured spaces that support students to regulate, reflect and reintegrate. You will also oversee the academy’s wider behaviour provision, including the Internal Suspension Room, ensuring effective support that reduces repeat referrals and boosts long-term engagement.
Working with pastoral staff, teachers, safeguarding teams and external agencies, you will track behaviour, analyse data and deliver targeted interventions that help students stay in class, make progress and meet expectations.
About the role
You will:
Lead the Reflection Room, Ready to Return Room and Internal Suspension Room, ensuring calm, structured and supportive routines that enable positive reintegration.
Act as a key point of contact for students accessing behaviour support, forming strong and supportive relationships both 1:1 and in small groups.
Analyse behaviour patterns, monitor referrals and create intervention plans that reduce repeat incidents and support improved conduct.
Work collaboratively with teaching staff to develop strategies that support inclusion, prevent escalation and improve classroom behaviour.
Communicate regularly with parents and carers regarding behaviour concerns, progress and reintegration expectations.
Work closely with the Inclusion Team and SEN colleagues to support vulnerable students with social, emotional and behavioural needs.
Respond to behaviour incidents, de-escalate situations safely and make informed decisions in line with academy policy.
Support the consistent implementation of behaviour and safeguarding procedures, ensuring all concerns are accurately recorded.
Line-manage staff working within behaviour spaces and model high professional standards.
About you
You will be:
Passionate about working with children and young people and committed to improving students’ life chances.
Emotionally resilient, calm and able to work effectively under pressure.
A confident and skilled relationship-builder, able to work effectively with students, families, colleagues and external professionals.
A clear, sensitive and professional communicator in both written and verbal contexts.
Committed to equality, diversity, safeguarding and the wellbeing of all students.
Willing to work flexibly, including attending meetings, interventions and activities beyond the school day where required.
You will have:
GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent) demonstrating strong literacy and numeracy skills and a relevant Level 3 qualification, such as: NVQ Level 3 in Education, NVQ Level 3 in Supporting Teaching and Learning or NVQ Level 3 in Learning and Development or behaviour/SEN support.
Successful experience of working with young people, including those with challenging behaviour or additional needs.
Proven experience of supporting behaviour, de-escalation, restorative practice and preventing exclusion.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff, and volunteers, to share the same commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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