Long-Term Behaviour Manager – Secondary School | March 2026 Start
Location: Bristol
Contract: Long-Term (Monday-Friday)
Hours: 8:15am – 3:15pm
Salary: Competitive (Dependent on Experience)
Are you an experienced, confident, and motivated Behaviour Manager looking for a long-term position within a supportive secondary school environment? We are seeking a committed Behaviour Manager to join a well-regarded secondary school in Bristol. This role is ideal for individuals with strong pastoral experience, excellent communication skills, and a genuine passion for supporting young people to thrive both academically and personally.
This long-term position offers stability, meaningful responsibility, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the school community. You’ll work closely with senior leadership, pastoral teams, and classroom staff to promote positive behaviour, ensure high expectations, and help create a calm, inclusive, and safe environment for all students.
This school prides themselves on fostering respectful communities built on strong relationships, clear routines, and supportive pastoral structures. Students benefit from consistent guidance, restorative approaches, and proactive interventions that help them succeed socially, emotionally, and academically.
Why Bristol Schools?
- Supportive, diverse, and community-focused school environments
- Clear behaviour expectations built on positive relationships and mutual respect
- Strong pastoral systems prioritising wellbeing, emotional development, and inclusion
- Experienced leadership teams committed to professional growth and staff support
- Well-established behaviour policies and resources that promote consistency and success
About the Role
As the Behaviour Manager, you will play a key role in maintaining high standards of behaviour across the school. You will work with students who require additional support, implement behaviour strategies, oversee internal exclusions where needed, and monitor behaviour data to ensure early intervention. You will also collaborate with teachers, families, and external agencies to provide tailored support that helps students remain engaged in their learning.
This role requires resilience, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to build rapport quickly with young people. You will be a visible, approachable presence around the school, promoting positive behaviour and encouraging students to make positive choices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on behaviour management across the school, ensuring policies are consistently applied
- Support students through restorative conversations, interventions, and structured behaviour plans
- Manage and monitor behaviour incidents, patterns, and trends to inform targeted support
- Work closely with pastoral teams, SEN staff, and safeguarding leads
- Build positive, supportive relationships with students, staff, and families
- Maintain a calm, structured, and respectful environment around the school
- Oversee internal exclusion and reflection spaces where required
- Support staff with in-class behaviour strategies and de-escalation techniques
- Contribute to the school’s inclusive, community-centred ethos
- Promote resilience, responsibility, and positive decision-making in students
What We’re Looking For
- Experience working in a behaviour, pastoral, or safeguarding role within a school setting
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to remain calm, consistent, and professional in challenging situations
- A proactive, positive, and solution-focused approach
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage behaviour systems effectively
- Experience supporting students with additional needs, SEMH challenges, or behavioural barriers
- Full commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and school values
- Previous secondary school experience desirable
Benefits of Working with Monarch Education:
- Leading provider, Crown Commercial Service Approved
- Opportunity to enhance your CPD portfolio through our Affinity Academy
- Free Safeguarding training
- Refer a friend scheme – £200 bonus (you can make unlimited referrals)
- Online portal to manage your pay and timesheets
To learn more about us and what makes Monarch one of the leading education recruitment providers nationwide – please visit our website – About Us – Monarch (monarcheducation.co.uk)
Important Information:
- All pay rates provided are inclusive of rolled up holiday pay.
- Equal Opportunities – Monarch
- Affinity Workforce Solutions and Monarch Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children daily, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.
- This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Monarch Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.
