Job Description Assistant Psychologist

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ASSISTANT PSYCHOLOGIST JOB DESCRIPTION &
PERSON SPECIFICATION
JOB DESCRIPTION ASSISTANT PSYCHOLOGIST
Salary Grade: Scale S02 points 32 - 34
Accountable to: Head of Integrated Working
Responsible for: 3 members of the Behaviour Support Team
1. JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will manage The Bridge School Behaviour Support Team (BST) and coordinate all aspects of behaviour
management across both primary and secondary sites, including managing staff, supervision and debrief around
behavioural concerns. To work closely with and coordinate multi agency working between teachers, CAMHs, social care,
therapists and families. To organise and chair TAC, family, integrated and professionals meetings as and when needed. The
post holder will have knowledge and skills in positive behaviour management and approaches to promote this. They will
lead and promote incident reporting, ensuring all staff are trained in Iris Adapt and will analyse data and present to all school
staff on a regular basis. The post holder will manage and coordinate Team Teach training courses internally and externally
and ensure that the Team Teach ethos is upheld by all. The post holder will be required to work independently and have
the skills and experience to enable autonomous practice in all areas including consultation responsibilities, service delivery
and decision making.
The main purpose of the post is to develop and maintain a coordinated and consistent approach across the Bridge School
and with families who attend the school around positive behaviour management.
Main duties
To be part of the Extended Leadership Team and to lead and develop systems to support positive behaviour
management approaches across the school and to attend Leadership meetings when required.
To operationally line manage 3 members of the BST; including providing regular timetabling, meetings,
supervision, debrief and supporting prioritisation of workload.
To lead and challenge behavioural approaches and strategies for all staff and governors as well as to work
collaboratively to develop more effective systems around communicating and sharing information, especially
at whole school level
To regularly hold one-to-one debriefs and crisis management sessions with staff and to challenge poor practice
and set firm boundaries and targets to work towards in relation to managing behaviour
To sensitively manage relationships with staff and to develop an effective system to undertake, document and
feedback observations of individual children/ and or classes and monitor progress and outcomes.
May 2015
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The electronic version of this document is the latest version. It is the responsibility of the individual to ensure that any
paper material is the current version. Printed material is uncontrolled documentation

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