Deputy Positive Impact Centre Programme Manager
Fixed term for 1 year

SR5 (26—28) £32,909 —£34,723 FTE  (£28,905— £30,499 Actual)
(Based on 37 hours per week, 40 weeks per year)

Closing date: midday, Friday 24th March 2023

The Deputy Positive Impact Centre Programme Manager will work under the guidance of the Senior Leader in
supporting students assigned to the Positive Impact Centre, a dedicated on-site provision for students with additional wellbeing, social and emotional needs.

We are developing a provision for students to support their needs and ensure they can access learning. We are seeking a responsible and committed individual to support the PIC team to implement effective strategies to promote positive behaviours. Alongside the Senior Leader you will manage the day to day running of The Positive Impact Centre.

The positive Impact Centre consists of four strands;

· KS3 Alternative provision (12 week full time programme)

· Short term focused interventions

· Phased return through PIC following an exclusion/period of absence and a school

          Counselling service.

To plan and deliver alongside the Senior Leader personal development, PSHE and core subjects (English, maths and science) within the KS3 Alternative Provision. The successful candidate will liaise with other colleagues to create personalised timetables for students with bespoke interventions in order to reduce repeated negative behaviour patterns. Contributing and writing weekly reports, 6 week reviews and a final evaluation of the programme. Focussing on, academic, pastoral and personal progress. Liaising with parents/carers and communicating with colleagues.

Preparing reintegration programmes for individual students so they can return into the main school, enabling individuals to access the curriculum, succeed, achieve and learn.

To implement agreed short term focussed interventions with individuals/groups within PIC, this could include those requiring support with mental health, wellbeing and behavioural issues. Ensuring all interventions start with a baseline assessment, reviewed and evaluated at the end of the intervention. You will be responsible for tracking the progress of the intervention through in-house systems and feedback key information to Year team, parents and line manager. Our current Interventions include Anger Management, Confidence Building, Self-Esteem, SAIL (self-assurance in life & learning), SEW (social & emotional wellbeing) Motivation, Positive Thinking, Mindfulness, Attachment awareness, Social Skills, protective behaviours and Improving behaviour/handling peer pressure.

Working in collaboration with parents/carers, directors & assistant directors of year, create tailored programmes for students on a phased return after a period of absence/ exclusion. Establishing a pathway of support and implement to ensure students successfully reintegrate into the main school.

Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the heart of all that is does?

In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:

· Built upon strong values and principles

· Places people at the heart of all that it does

· Heavily over-subscribed

· Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded

· A Behaviour Hub Lead School

· The 27^th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools

· GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history

· A school of Character

· An Investors in People Gold School

· An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School

· A Global Equality Collective School

· The home of ResearchED Northampton

· A PKC Curriculum Hub

· An Ofsted ‘Good’ school