Assistant Learning Mentor
Kingsway Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BDThis job expired on 22 May 2024
Job start date
22 August 2024
Closing date
22 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 31.5 hour a week, 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to 1 year
Actual salary
- £17,413 - £17,706
Pay scale
- Grade 6, Pay Point 9 -10
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
Understanding of the importance of supportive student/teacher relationships within a SEMH Specialist setting
Ability to communicate effectively with young people and their families
Good numeracy and literacy skills - GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths
Ability to work well within a team
Good organisational skills
Self-motivated, ability to work on own
Good ICT skills.
Willingness to develop and attend training as necessary e.g. Team Teach
Ability to work under pressure and react calmly to confrontation
Able to be totally confidential and discreet
Recent record of good health, attendance and punctuality
Completion of Enhanced DBS disclosure
Desirable
Evidence of effective relationships with young people in a SEMH setting
Evidence of good working relations with a range of people
Qualification / specialism or interest to work within a SEMH setting
Evidence of organisational ability
Recent ICT qualification, Team Teach etc.
Evidence of meeting deadlines and ability to prioritise
What the school offers its staff
Putting Your Trust in Our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal Improvement Plan versus Performance Management
Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance,
Offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Presumed Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kingsway Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 315 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Kingsway Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@kingsway.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0116 2898525
The Burrow @ Kingsway is a small specialist SEMH provision located within The Winstanley School and Kingsway Primary School, with a genuine mainstream collaboration, partnership and learning experiences for every young person.
The Burrow @ Kingsway Primary School is a lovely place to work. It is a small school setting in the middle of Kingsway North in Braunstone Town where children learn, play and grow. Our children love coming to The Burrow and feel happy and safe when they are there. As a small provision each child receives a highly personalised education, building positive relationships with the adults that they work with. Our Burrow team are committed to making a positive difference to the lives of the children theywork with and go above and beyond to ensure that every day is creative and engaging.
Arranging a visit to Kingsway Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@kingsway.org.uk.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Leicester and Leicestershire and Rutland