Inclusion Mentor

More than one location, Archway Learning Trust

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  10 July 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 June 2026

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time, Term Time Only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: From £32,061 - £35,412 FTE

What skills and experience we're looking for

Inclusion Mentor Responsibilities

To manage and maintain the pastoral and inclusion offer within the assigned year group ensuring that:

• The year group's inclusion and pastoral needs are well known, actively monitored and responded to in a timely and professional manner
• Attendance data is reviewed daily, with first-day absence contact made promptly and patterns of concern escalated to the Year Leader and AP for Inclusion in line with the school's attendance policy
• Accurate and up-to-date records are maintained for all student contacts, interventions, referrals and family communications within the year group
• The Year Leader is kept informed of emerging concerns, significant family communications and any changes in the pastoral landscape of the year group
• The year group is led with confidence, consistency and professional authority in the Year Leader's absence, ensuring continuity of pastoral provision and clear decision-making
• Contribution is made to pastoral review meetings, inclusion team briefings and interagency discussions relevant to students within the year group
• A visible, trusted and approachable presence is maintained across the year group at key points in the school day, including morning arrival, transitions and social times
• Up-to-date knowledge is maintained of safeguarding legislation and guidance including Keeping Children

Safe in Education, with all concerns reported promptly and appropriately to the DSL

Support for the Student

• Act as a consistent, named and trusted adult for students within the year group, building professional and boundaried relationships that support engagement, attendance and wellbeing
• Hold a caseload of identified students with emerging or persistent pastoral, attendance or inclusion needs, providing structured and regularly reviewed 1:1 support
• Deliver targeted group and 1:1 pastoral and inclusion interventions for identified students, under the direction of the Year Leader and in coordination with the wider inclusion team
• Monitor the emotional wellbeing, social functioning and attendance of vulnerable students within the year group, escalating concerns promptly and in line with school procedures
• Support students through transitions, periods of personal difficulty, friendship concerns and low-level anxiety, referring on where need exceeds the scope of the role
• Develop and promote strategies that build students' confidence, resilience and sense of belonging within the academy community
• Support students as directed during formal academy processes, including reintegration following suspension, managed transitions and significant pastoral interventions
• Engage in joint goal-setting with individual students, helping them to identify and work towards clear, achievable and meaningful targets
• Be responsible for the collation and monitoring of pastoral and attendance data for identified students within the year group, sharing relevant information with teaching staff and the Year Leader in a timely and professional manner
• Use knowledge of individual students — their circumstances, needs, triggers and strengths — to inform and support teachers in their day-to-day management of those students within the classroom
• Gather information, as directed, about named students and their current pastoral, emotional or social circumstances for teaching and support staff
• Observe and assess individual students' pastoral and inclusion needs and provide regular, constructive feedback and guidance to relevant teachers and form tutors
• Facilitate restorative conversations and structured meetings between students and staff where relationships have broken down, supporting resolution and reintegration in a professional and managed way
• Take responsibility for delivering structured pastoral and inclusion sessions for individuals and small groups, including social skills, emotional literacy, attendance recovery and engagement programmes, as directed by the Year Leader and AP for Inclusion
• Use knowledge of individual students' barriers to learning to support teaching staff in adapting their approach, ensuring that students' pastoral and inclusion needs do not prevent them from accessing their curriculum entitlement
• Liaise and report to, as necessary, during involvement by external support agencies in the lives of students within the year group, including Early Help, CAMHS, the Educational Psychologist and Children's Social Care
• Assess, record and report on student progress and engagement through the academy's pastoral and inclusion monitoring procedures, contributing to provision mapping and review processes at each relevant stage

Support for the Teacher

Support for the Curriculum

What the school offers its staff

• Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
• A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
• *Access to Teachers’ Pensions / Generous pension scheme
• Access to discounted travel schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Comprehensive training and support
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Free flu vaccine
• Access to e-learning and development

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Archway Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/archway-learning-trust

School Details

Bluecoat Trent Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 895 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bluecoat Trent Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bluecoat-trent-academy

Arranging a visit to Archway Learning Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.

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