Job description

Join our team in an exciting fixed-term role, providing maternity cover and making a real impact from day one. In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring our pupils receive the highest quality Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). Your expertise will help our pupils learn, thrive in school, and develop the skills they need for the best possible opportunities in adulthood.

While certification is preferred, we welcome applications from candidates who are actively working towards obtaining it.
- Maternity Leave Cover until June 2026
- Closing date for applications: 9am Wednesday 1st October 2025
- Interview date: Monday 6th October 2025
- Start date: Monday 3rd November 2025
Key responsibilities:
- Work as part of a trans-disciplinary team to support the delivery of effective and appropriate teaching, learning and behaviour support in all areas of school life as a result of trans-disciplinary working underpinned by an evidence-based behavioural model of practice.
- Responsible for conducting functional assessments and developing comprehensive function based Positive Behaviour Support plans and interventions to reduce behaviour that challenges and monitoring the effectiveness of these plans through development of robust data collection systems and analysis of the data.
- Use evidence-informed practices to develop personalised learning support.
- Conducting a range of assessments including assessment for learning, assessment of learning, admissions assessments, behavioural assessments and assessments of maintenance and generalisation.
- Preparing for and contributing to Person Centred Reviews.
- Working in partnership with parents, colleagues and other professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
- Play an active role in the school’s approach to Positive Handling, becoming a Team-Teach Trainer (training will be provided, however the candidate is required to be open to this training) and provide training, support and advice to all staff in Abbey School to ensure any use of restrictive intervention is used in accordance with the law and clear ethical values and embedded within comprehensive proactive plans to reduce restriction.
For more information about this opportunity, please download our recruitment pack, which includes a detailed job description and person specification. The ideal candidate must meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

How to apply?

If you believe you have the right qualities to join our vibrant, innovative, and exceptional school as a BA, we invite you to complete a school application form, available to download above. Completed application forms should be sent to recruitment@abbeyschool.com with a covering letter addressed to:

Ms Janet Whiley – Assistant Principal

Alternatively, application forms with covering letters can be sent by post to Abbey School, 12 Abbey Square, Chester, CH1 2HU. Please be advised that we only accept fully completed application forms.

Additional notes

The School will complete an online search for all shortlisted candidates. If any incidents or issues have happened that are publicly available online, the school may wish to explore this at interview.

Abbey School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Child safer recruitment procedures operate and the post is subject to references and an Enhanced DBS disclosure with barred list checks.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marriage/civil partnerships, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.

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