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: As soon as possible
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.
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.
As 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.
- Experience liaising with external agencies and contributing to multi‑agency meetings to support student outcomes.
- Knowledge of behaviour strategies, inclusion, personalised learning approaches and current issues in student support.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About Tewkesbury Academy:
Tewkesbury Academy is an exciting place to learn and work within Gloucestershire with a student body of more than 1,000 and upwards of 150 colleagues. We serve the distinctive town of Tewkesbury and surrounding villages, with its renowned historical, musical and ecological festivals each year.
The sense of community and connectedness is strong at the academy, as is support from the wider business community, and this is reflected in the plethora of personal development opportunities at the school.
Being ready, respectful and responsible is a key tenet of life at Tewkesbury Academy, where we provide a calm and supportive environment and expect commitment and hard work from students and staff alike to ensure that they feel supported and challenged to produce their best.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 12 April 2026 @11.59pm
- Shortlisting date: 13 April 2026
- Interviews: Week Commencing 20 April 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs, a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
