Oxted School is looking for an organised and motivated individual to lead and manage the Internal Learning Unit (ILU), ensuring it is a purposeful, calm, and restorative environment where students complete meaningful learning, reflect on behaviour, and reintegrate successfully into lessons. The role involves coordinating bookings, supervising students, organising curriculum-appropriate work, monitoring patterns in behaviour and attendance, and working closely with academic and pastoral staff to reduce repeat referrals.
This role will be required for 36 hours per week/40 weeks per year (term-time plus 1).
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the ILU as a calm, safe, and productive learning environment. Establish routines that support focus and high expectations.
- Ensure safeguarding and health & safety procedures are consistently applied.
- Manage ILU bookings in line with the Oxted School Local Behaviour Protocols.
- Coordinate with pastoral, behaviour, and on-call teams for accurate placement.
- Collect, organise, and distribute curriculum-aligned work for each student based on their timetable.
- Identify students at risk of repeated ILU use and coordinate targeted interventions.
- Work with pastoral, SEND, and curriculum teams to adjust support plans.
- Maintain strong communication with Heads of Year, SENDCo, safeguarding team, behaviour leads, and teachers.
Qualifications and Skills:
Essential:
- Experience working with young people in a secondary school setting.
- Strong behaviour management using relational practice.
- High-level organisational and data-handling skills.
- Skilled in restorative conversations and de-escalation.
- Strong communication skills.
- Commitment to safeguarding and inclusion.
Desirable:
- Experience managing an Internal Suspension Room or similar provision.
- Knowledge of SEND and SEMH needs.
- Training in de-escalation approaches (e.g. Thrive, Price).
- First aid or mental health first aid.
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The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).