Achievement Mentor - Pastoral Team
Ricards Lodge High School, London, SW19 7HB13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
9 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual salary: ME8 £30,890 - £32,293 (full-time equivalent: £35,520 - £37,134)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Ricards Lodge High School is a Gold accredited member of the Attachment Research Community (ARC) (2025/2026), recognising our outstanding trauma-informed and relational practices.You will share our mission to ‘educate successful women of the future’ and are fully committed to girls' education. You will be on board with our vision to be a leading attachment aware and trauma informed school.
You will be working with our Behaviour and Safeguarding leads to support some of our most vulnerable students.
You may have a degree in psychology, sociology, education or youth work and/ or experience of working with teenagers and young adults in education settings. Your previous experience might include social care, youth work, mentoring, higher level teaching assistants or work with vulnerable young people. Training will be available.
You will enjoy and thrive in our high achieving, and happy school, recently inspected as outstanding
Line Manager: Deputy Headteacher
Job Purpose of an Achievement Mentor
1.To promote a positive, optimistic attitude to learning and achievement within the school, with students, parents/carers and the wider community.
2. To implement and role model Attachment Aware and Trauma inform practice.
3. To work as part of a team with referred students to remove and address barriers to their learning.
4. Plan and implement bespoke reflective behaviour modification tasks with support from the inclusion team, pastoral team and behaviour leads.
5. To work with students, parents/carers and colleagues to identify the barriers to learning for referred students and raise their standards of attainment and progress especially in English and Mathematics.
6. To follow all school policies and practices such as [for example in only] KCSIE, Child Protection, Behaviour for Learning, Health and Safety, and Personal and Professional Conduct
Core Responsibilities for this role
1. To build positive, professional relationships and links with referred students’ parents/carers and maintain regular contact with them to promote good attendance and punctuality, as well as support parents/carers in their attendance at interviews/meetings.
2. To draw up and implement personalised and agreed support programmes and Action Plans for referred students, including setting personal, educational and behaviour targets.
3. To work with students in a variety of ways to provide support to achieve their targets. This may include: - Individual support sessions - Group work
4. To monitor and track referred students’ progress through attendance, engagement, behaviour and attainment on a regular basis, taking rapid action to provide support if difficulties become apparent.
5. To ensure that staff are appraised and updated about the Achievement Mentor’s work with individual students.
6. To participate in SSP/Student Support Plans, action plans and safety plans and other interventions and or meetings as needed.
7. To liaise with external agencies as appropriate.
8. To carry out focussed time-limited or one-off interventions with individuals or groups of students, such as:
a. Transition sessions
b. Incident reflection meetings
c. Mediation
d. Restorative justice
d. Restorative justice
e. Emotion coaching
f. Anti-bullying sessions
g. Learning activities relating to need
9. To, within the appraisal structure of the school, engage in training activities and respond to actions suggested to improve performance
10. To follow school policies and practices, for example in relation to child protection, behaviour for learning and health and safety.
Specific Responsibilities
11. To provide extra curricular activities at lunchtime and after school
12. To support the Behaviour for Learning policy by:
a. Controlling the behaviour incident spreadsheet and arranging interventions/escalations with Teachers, Heads of Department, Heads of Year and Senior Leadership Team. Provide management information on a regular basis to Heads of Department, Heads of Year and Senior Leadership Team.
13. To provide reports as required for SLT and Governors.
14. To contribute to a programme of small group courses for students and parents/carers.
School Expectations & Contributions:
● Be aware of and comply with all school policies and procedures.
● Contribute to the overall aims, ethos and values of the school.
● Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required, including staff.
● Attend morning briefings.
● Participate in training and other learning activities and appraisal as required.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities for the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified, which requires flexibility in all of its employees.
This job description is not exhaustive and the post holder will be expected to undertake any other duties as
reasonably requested by the Headteacher or as deputised.
What the school offers its staff
Ricards Lodge offers all new staff:
● Strong programme of in-service training for all staff including all leaders through the Apprenticeship Levy and the NPQ suite of courses.
● All Early Career Teachers will be provided with continued professional development as outlined in our Early Career Framework policy. Ricards Lodge provides training for mentors and ECT with our partners: Wandle Teaching Alliance and UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.
● A graduate teaching assistant programme leading to teacher training with Teach Wimbledon The staff are very supportive towards each other with a great camaraderie existing throughout the school with a number of social events that are open to all and well attended. When you come and work at Ricards Lodge High School and RR6 you will be able to benefit from a structured and comprehensive professional development programme.As a valued member of staff we want to ensure that you have access to all the benefits available to you.
Benefits include the following:
● Well being weeks and social events
● A laptop for all teaching staff
● Work areas for staff
● Access to Merton’s Employee Assistance Programme including new wellbeing app with instant access to free support for up to six weeks
● Collaborative approach to teaching and learning
● Merton Employee VDU users – possible to claim a fee towards glasses/eye test
● Annual season ticket travel loans are available.
● Parking on site Google for Education All successful candidates will be able to complete Google Fundamentals prior to starting work.All staff work towards completing the Google level 1 qualification.
Childcare The London Borough of Merton’s Children’s Information Service offers a comprehensive service to help meet your childcare needs. The service can be contacted on 020 8545 3800, or send an email to cis@merton.gov.uk. They can provide information on childminders, playgroups, nurseries and out of school schemes.
If you need any support with accessing the Tax-Free Childcare Scheme administered via HMRC, we can assist.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ricards Lodge High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1476 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ricards Lodge High School website
- Email address
- hr@ricardslodge.org
Ricards Lodge High School is an outstanding, successful and vibrant multi-cultural comprehensive school for girls with a co-educational 6th form, RR6.
Arranging a visit to Ricards Lodge High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@ricardslodge.org.
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