Lead Learning Mentor
Royds Hall, A Share Academy, Huddersfield, HD3 4HA23 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
28 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term-time plus 1 day
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Band E (actual salary £23,660.93 to £25,666.62)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek a warm, vibrant and inspiring individual to join our team, working with students to support them to achieve their personal best. You will lead supporting a cohort of children which will involve acting as their key worker and could involve leading on safeguarding issue, providing wellbeing support. You will lead on providing whole school extra-curricular year group support e.g. Year 11 exam stress and year 7 break clubs. You will also support effective liaison and communication between the wellbeing team, SEN team, Pastoral team and teaching staff to improve progress overtime for students with SEMH needs. You will work with the wellbeing team and SEN team to identify students with SEMH needs and will deliver interventions to these students.
Essential criteria:
- Be able to demonstrate levels of numeracy and literacy to GCSE (Grade C/4 and above)
- Experience of working with children/young people
- Ability to engage and influence others
- Excellent communication and behaviour management skills
- Experience of working across departments and with external organisations
- Ability to monitor and evaluate impact of interventions and strategies
- Commitment to the safeguarding of young people
What the school offers its staff
Further details about the role
Key Outputs:
1. Undertake the delivery of a specific curriculum/aspect to one-to-one or small group of students using a range of strategies to establish a purposeful learning environment and to promote good behaviour.
2. Deliver subject specific support for students that are not making expected progress under the direction of a teacher.
3. Develop strategies to help students overcome obstacles they may experience in achieving their personal best
4. Deliver SEMH interventions with particular focus on students with emotional or mental health issues
5. Create and maintain accurate records to support strategic decisions regarding SEMH support across KS3.
6. To support with the effective planning and delivery of the Peer Mentoring Programme.
7. Lead small group intervention sessions on life skills lessons / PSHE with students, inspiring a love of learning with students.
8. Ensure key staff are informed of progress and developments through regular feedback and updates.
9. Maintain regular, positive contact with staff, students and parents.
10. To develop effective working relationships with outside agencies to best support students with specific needs.
11. To lead on SEMH referrals to external agencies, maintaining accurate records and then liaising with professionals to provide outstanding SEMH provisions in school.
12. Write and review My Support plans and IEPs and other supporting documents where required for students.
13. To discuss sensitive issues with parents/carers, for example, behaviour, uniform, attendance etc.
14. To participate in and assist in supervision of educational visits, in conjunction with the teacher/line manager.
15. Actively encourage the inclusion of all students to participate in the life and activities of the school and to access the national curriculum to the best of their ability.
16. To support with the planning and delivery of assemblies during key period of the year i.e. Mental Health Awareness Week.
17. To support with the planning and delivery of key SEMH school events.
18. Seek feedback about own performance and the quality of support offered.
19. To provide cover for before, break, lunch and after school as directed by line manager, ensuring the post holder actively upholds and promotes the philosophies of the school.
20. As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the school’s responsibilities towards Safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping people safe and protecting people from harm, neglect, abuse and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have.
21. Carry out your duties with due regard to current and future School policies, procedures and relevant legislation. These will be drawn to your attention in your appointment letter, your statement of particulars, induction, and on-going performance development and through college communications.
Commitment to safeguarding
SHARE MAT is committed to the Equalities Act 2010 and also to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, by adhering to the “Keeping Children Safe in Education” guidance. All staff and volunteers are regularly trained regarding our expectations in keeping our students safe. An enhanced DBS is required for every post
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About Royds Hall, A Share Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1221 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Royds Hall, A Share Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- royds.recruitment@sharemat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01484463366
Being part of SHARE Multi-Academy Trust and Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale, provides staff a wealth of support and a wide range of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and also with the wider Calderdale and Kirklees network. This means we can offer the successful candidate access to a fantastic support network, CPD and opportunities to develop practice.
Royds Hall is a small secondary school that achieved a Progress 8 score of 0.2 in 2023, and in March of the same year, Royds Hall was graded 'Good' in all categories by Ofsted. We enjoy strong behaviour for learning and a curriculum that is ambitious for all and well-sequenced. Staff wellbeing is central to our vision of 'valuing people, supporting personal best. Visitors and staff regularly share that the school is warm and supportive, with high expectations for all.
We also offer pupils a wealth of extended learning opportunities from Royds Hall Scholars, Duke of Edinburgh, debating society, and Steam Lab to knitting for fun. The PE department supports our pupils in representing the school in a wide range of sports, including basketball, netball, and athletics. We take part in the annual Speakers' Trust event and have been successful in reaching the final in recent years. Pupils gain from a wealth of opportunities offered, including leadership opportunities in every year group. In 2023, 100% of pupils took part in an extended learning opportunity. A strong belief exists that offering a wide range of extended learning opportunities ignites pupil interests and allows them to uncover skills and abilities that support their sense of achievement and happiness in school and into adulthood. We believe every child can succeed, and it is our privilege to provide them with opportunities to identify their talents, future dreams, and aspirations.
"We are delighted to officially announce that the inspection team rated Royds Hall a Share Academy as a ‘Good’ school. We are exceptionally proud of what our staff and pupils have achieved in the last five years. Whilst the outcome doesn’t change the way we work, it provides further evidence of the very positive journey of improvement we are on. We will continue to focus on what matters for our pupils and community and ensure that our pupils leave school fully equipped with the life skills, experiences and educational outcomes to enjoy a happy and successful future.” – May 2023
Royds Hall is a wonderful place to work, where you will have the opportunity to make a difference every single day.
Arranging a visit to Royds Hall, A Share Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email royds.recruitment@sharemat.co.uk.
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