Job Summary & Person Specification
Job Title:
Area Manager – West
Job Ref No:
HCC1740515
Department:
Children’s Services
Branch / Section:
Education and Inclusion
Grade:
L15 – L23
Job Purpose:
To provide a strategic lead for the Primary Behaviour Service (PBS) teams
across the designated area.
To demonstrate outstanding leadership that inspires and motivates others.
To add to the leadership thinking within the Education and Inclusion Branch so
that the service is flexible and responsive to changing national and local policy
framework.
To ensure schools receive a high quality service based upon locally determined
need.
Main Responsibilities:
Management and Leadership
 To provide joint leadership with the other PBS Area Manager so that all
PBS teams work to common principles and that good practice is shared
and built across the County.
 To be responsible for the line management of the PBS Team Managers
within the designated area, ensuring each team’s work has a positive
impact upon pupil outcomes, that inreach and outreach is effective and
that schools express high levels of satisfaction with the service provided.
 To be responsible for the line management of the Area Therapist within
the designated area, ensuring that the therapeutic provision offered is of
high quality and is well structured, clearly understood and supported.
 To be responsible for primary medical referrals in the designated area,
ensuring that statutory expectations are met through identified resources
within the Education and Inclusion branch.
 To work alongside the other PBS Area Manager and Area Strategic
Managers to identify priorities and produce the three-year County
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Improvement Plan, reviewing this regularly and ensuring that annual Team
Action Plans reflect the vision and direction of the service.
To coordinate regular Team Manager meetings across the designated
area and, with the other PBS Area Manager, across the County, so that
good practice can be shared and priorities are established, both across
the area and the service as a whole.
To continue to secure high quality practice throughout the designated
area, providing structured, consistent ways of working and clear
processes for accountability.
To meet on a regular basis with the Area Strategic Manager (Alternative
Provision) to discuss progress and disseminate good practice.
To be responsible for the performance management of the Team
Managers and Area Therapist within the designated area, setting SMART
developmental targets and carrying out regular performance reviews.
Service Provision
 To ensure that high quality relationships with schools are maintained and
fostered and that the service is highly valued by schools and stakeholders.
 To foster a forward-thinking approach within the designated area,
combining insight into school leadership with business-like qualities to
drive and innovate service developments, informed by relevant research.
 To ensure the focus of PBS is child and school centred by embedding
consistent ways of working across the designated area.
 To work alongside the Area Strategic Managers (Alternative Provision)
and the Area Directors (Education and Inclusion), and other senior officers
to help create a coherent pattern of provision that provides support and
intervention for children exhibiting challenging behaviour.
 To foster excellent working relationships with all partners.
 To work with the Inclusion Officer and schools to ensure that the number
of primary aged children at risk of exclusion is minimised, thus reducing
fixed period primary exclusions.
 To deploy the therapist resource effectively across the designated area.
 To develop effective transition strategies in partnership with schools.
Monitoring and Reporting
 To work with senior officers within Children’s Services to maintain and
monitor financial arrangements underpinning the work of PBS and
implement agreed frameworks so that the service has financial security.
 To ensure that PBS Team Managers within the designated area maintain
appropriate records, prepare reports and assessments and participate in
reviews when requested.
 To work alongside the area Inclusion team to provide information,
demonstrating the impact of the work of PBS on outcomes for children and
the levels of satisfaction expressed by schools about the service. This
information to be periodically reported to the Branch Management Team.
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To work with the Area Strategic Manager (Alternative Provision) in
monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the provision made by
members of PBS.
To ensure Team Managers produce an annual team report, and from this
to prepare an annual Area report.
To work alongside the Area Strategic Manager (Alternative Provision) to
produce and annually review the County Improvement Plan.
Training and Development
 To develop effective training around behaviour management and
modification by linking with LA/training schools where appropriate.
 To organise PBS staffing and development planning, ensuring that the
aims and objectives of individual staff and the service are met.
 To ensure that PBS staff receive ongoing high quality CPD together with
up to date relevant primary school experience.
 To plan and implement the INSET arrangements for the designated area,
working alongside the other PBS Area Manager and Area Strategic
Managers to coordinate County INSET where appropriate.
 To undertake any training as appropriate with the aim of increasing
professional skills and expertise.
Finance
 To be responsible for ensuring the service provides effective value for
money through oversight of financial management.
 To ensure PBS teams within the designated area work within budgetary
provision.
 To work with the Area Strategic Manager (Alternative Provision) to
develop creative responses to growing need for greater resources.
 To produce and maintain resources within a delegated budget.
Corporate and Statutory Initiatives
 To ensure that health and safety requirements are met, confirming that
PBS Team Managers within the designated area ensure that their
service/centre is fully compliant with health and safety regulations and that
routine centre maintenance work is undertaken to satisfactory standard.
 To be conversant with and implement relevant national legislation and
locally agreed Hampshire Children’s Services policies and procedures.
 To ensure that all Hampshire County Council child protection policies are
adhered to and concerns are raised in accordance with these policies.
 To uphold the Standards for Teaching and abide by the Personal and
Professional Conduct standards.
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Additional Information:
This post is subject to a criminal records check.
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all
employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure
that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
The role involves travelling to various locations across Hampshire, so it is
essential you have use of your own vehicle to meet these requirements.
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Person Specification:
Essential
Qualifications
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Fully qualified teacher status with significant successful teaching
experience at Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2
Evidence of relevant further professional qualifications
Desirable
Qualifications
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Evidence of further studies in areas related to behaviour
management
Essential
Knowledge,
Skills and
Experience
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Ability to demonstrate outstanding leadership that inspires and
motivates others
Ability to demonstrate a strategic approach to develop and improve
a service
Ability to bridge operational and strategic work
Recent evidence of successful teaching experience of managing
challenging behaviour
Experience of effective leadership of a team resulting in improved
outcomes for children
Experience of the management of a team that undertakes complex
work with challenging children, schools and parents
Experience of developing staff successfully, improving performance
and enabling better outcomes for children
Evidence of successful multi-agency work, particularly across
education, mental health and social care
Ability to work successfully with hard to engage parents
Ability to travel as required
A clear understanding of the background to children’s emotional,
social and behavioural difficulties
Good knowledge and experience of approaches and strategies to
support behaviour management
Working knowledge of key theories relating to motivation for
behaviour
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Desirable
Knowledge,
Skills and
Experience
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Successful primary teaching experience in more than one Key
Stage.
Evidence of successful development of staff through coaching and
mentoring roles
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Working Conditions:
The following section provides an outline of the working conditions that may be
encountered in this role.
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Display Screen Equipment user
Direct supervision of children
Working with vulnerable adults
Physical Behaviour management techniques (Team Teach)
Lone working
Use of own vehicle for work purposes
Biological hazard – contact with animals/birds/reptiles
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