Behaviour Mentor
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SEMH Behaviour Mentor - Secondary School - Hackney
Start: September 2025 | Full-time | Term-time | £105-£120 per day
Do you thrive working with students who need structure, consistency and positive role models?
A secondary school in Hackney is looking for an SEMH Behaviour Mentor to support students with behavioural and emotional needs.
Hackney schools are seeing increased demand for strong behaviour support staff, making this a fantastic long-term opportunity.
What you'll be doing:
- Supporting students with SEMH and challenging behaviour
- Delivering targeted mentoring and intervention sessions
- De-escalating situations and supporting emotional regulation
- Helping students re-engage with education
What they're looking for:
- Experience supporting behaviour or SEMH needs
- PRU, youth work or mentoring experience desirable
- Strong behaviour management skills
- Patient, resilient and consistent personality
Why this role?
- High-impact position with strong career progression
- Excellent experience for psychology or pastoral pathways
- Supportive behaviour and inclusion teams
Interested? Send your CV to or call Tom on (option 3)
Behaviour mentor vacancies in Hackney are filling very quickly for September starts
Key skills
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⭐ Highlight your SEMH or behaviour support experience prominently as this is the core requirement for this Hackney role
📊 Quantify your impact: 'Mentored 12 students with SEMH needs, achieving 85% re-engagement with mainstream lessons'
🌐 Emphasise any PRU, youth work or mentoring background as these are specifically mentioned as desirable
🎯 Showcase de-escalation and emotional regulation techniques you've used with challenging behaviour cases
🤝 Demonstrate your patient, resilient and consistent approach through specific examples of long-term student support
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- •Delivered targeted SEMH interventions for 15 secondary students, achieving 78% improvement in classroom engagement over one academic term
- •De-escalated 25+ challenging behaviour incidents per week using emotional regulation techniques, reducing exclusions by 40%
- •Mentored 8 disengaged students through structured re-engagement programmes, with 6 successfully returning to mainstream lessons
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Your SEMH Behaviour Mentor position at the Hackney secondary school represents exactly the high-impact educational role I'm seeking, combining my passion for supporting students with challenging behaviour and my experience in de-escalation and emotional regulation techniques.
My background in SEMH support and behaviour management has equipped me with the patience, resilience and consistency needed to help vulnerable students re-engage with education through targeted mentoring and intervention sessions.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you deliver a targeted intervention session for a student with SEMH needs?
- ›What de-escalation techniques do you use when supporting students with challenging behaviour?
- ›How do you help students develop emotional regulation skills?
- ›What strategies do you use to re-engage students who have disengaged from education?
- ›How would you work with the behaviour and inclusion team to support student outcomes?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you supported a student with particularly challenging behaviour
- ›Describe a situation where you had to remain patient and consistent despite difficult circumstances
- ›Give an example of how you've helped a young person re-engage with education
- ›Tell me about a time you had to de-escalate a tense situation with a student
- ›Describe how you've worked as part of a team to support student wellbeing
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you supported a student with particularly challenging behaviour
Describe a situation where you had to remain patient and consistent despite difficult circumstances