Assistant Vice Principal: Behaviour and Attitudes

We are looking for an Assistant Vice Principal: Behaviour and Attitudes to join us from September 2025 or sooner.

In this role, you will be responsible to the Vice Principal: Student Support and Student Development for ensuring that students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline, including before and after the college day, through the leadership and management of relentless routines and social time procedures. This will include:

• Organising and leading duties at the start and end of the day, ensuring students arrive and leave the site safely, calmly, and with a strong sense of welcoming and belonging, supported by a visible and positive staff presence
• Implementing and upholding consistent routines during lesson transitions and at the start of the day, managing corridors to support punctuality, addressing lateness appropriately, and maintaining a climate of high expectations and mutual respect. Behaviour Support Officers will be strategically deployed to ensure these routines are seamless and consistently followed
• Leading and overseeing social time procedures to ensure they are consistently followed and that student conduct is calm, safe and respectful. Any instances of poor behaviour should be addressed promptly and effectively, reinforcing expectations and supporting positive change

You will ensure the climate in the college is safe, welcoming and focused on learning through the leadership of the Behaviour Support function, with a particular emphasis on:

• Overseeing and directing the Behaviour Support Officers as they provide support to staff and students when things go wrong through proactive presence, reset and removal; ensuring that any incident of poor behaviour is addressed immediately and in line with the ESF Behaviour Policy
• Overseeing the Behaviour Support rooms so that when these spaces are used to address student behaviour, the climate is characterised by high expectations and that reflection and restoration are used to prevent further behaviour incidents occurring
• Leading the detention systems to ensure high attendance and actively promoting positive behavioural change so that students are motivated to reflect on their actions and make amends, contributing to their long-term character development

You will also reduce suspension and exclusion through the provision of exemplary personalised intervention and support for behaviour, with a particular emphasis on:

• Analysing behaviour data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor behaviour, strategically deploying Behaviour Support Officers to areas of need
• Using data to ensure that when student behaviour is not exemplary over time, a staged response is used to address this, which includes personalised intervention. Reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on behaviour data, improvements and actions required to address this
• Building strong relationships with parents and carers when students regularly demonstrate behaviour that is not exemplary and working with them to create intervention plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies

We have a clear model for school improvement to provide an outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.

Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee-centred and family-friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

For further information and to apply, please click here.

Interview date: 23rd May 2025.

Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children, and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement, which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.