MCR Pathways Programme Coordinator
Excelsior Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE15 6AF10 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
1 August 2025
Latest start date
18 August 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per week Term time plus 4 weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Scale 5 - £27,711 - £30,060 - Term time plus 4 weeks = £25,749 - £27,932
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you searching for a position with purpose? A role where you can make a real difference and where your time can be transformational?
Laidlaw Schools Trust is delighted to be embarking on a new partnership with national charity MCR Pathways, to bring an innovative programme of mentoring to Secondary students at Excelsior Academy.
The programme will establish the provision of one-to-one mentoring and group mentoring programmes in school via a highly successful programme already in place in parts of Scotland and England, but new to the North East.
As part of the programme, we are searching for a Programme Coordinator to lead this new initiative and deliver the mentoring programme. You will participate in national training and have the opportunity to bring new opportunities to our students at Excelsior Academy.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Delivering the MCR Pathways programme to qualifying young people in the school modelling best practice.
- Building exceptional individual relationships with qualifying young people across Y7 to Y11
- Delivering group work to participating young people in Y7
- Helping to drive mentor recruitment
- Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
- Actively support MCR young people to: identify their talent; build their self-confidence; develop their aspiration and fulfil their potential
- Collate evidence of young people’s progression quantitative data and qualitative evidence such as young people’s voice and case studies.
Excelsior Academy is the first all-through school in Newcastle, offering education to pupils from 3 to 19 years of age. We are a community school that creates and builds aspiration through high-quality care and education. The successful candidate will to join a school where the core purpose is to ensure that school is a safe, happy and inspiring environment so that young people achieve good outcomes that enhance their life chances.
To find out more about MCR Pathways and the transformational impact they have had supporting young people please visit:https://mcrpathways.org
To review the full job description and person specification for this role please refer to the attached supporting documents.
What the school offers its staff
At Laidlaw Schools Trust we appreciate the amazing work that our people do every day and like to reward our staff through benefits that are mentally, physically and financially rewarding. To see a complete list of our benefits please click here:https://www.laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk/120/benefits
To apply please complete our online application form
If you require assistance with your application please contact:recruitment@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk
Closing Date: 9am on Monday 16 June 2025
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 23 June 2025
If you wish to have an informal discussion about this role or visit the academy please contact: Hannah Kiernan, Talent Acquisition Lead at:recruitment@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk
We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a range of other pre-employment recruitment checks.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Excelsior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1460 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Excelsior Academy website
- Email address
- hannah.kiernan@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk
At the heart of our community we create the highest quality learning experiences in support of the needs and aspirations of each of our learners in our inspiring, safe and welcoming environment to help all our learners achieve and flourish a relevant, purposeful and inclusive education in preparation for life and your future.
At Excelsior Academy we strive to meet the needs and aspirations of all our learners to enable each and every pupil to achieve and flourish so we place ‘the child’ at the heart of all we do.
Excelsior Academy is an ‘all through academy’, made up of three phases; Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form College. Each phase has a family feel, where our pupils feel safe, comfortable and confident to achieve their potential.
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