Learning and Behaviour Mentor

St Mary's and St John's CofE School, London, NW4 4QR

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,010.00 - £34,239.00 Annually (Actual) Scale Point 24 – 26. 36 hours a week, Term time only (38 weeks)

Learning and Behaviour Mentor job summary

Main Duties / Responsibilities:

The post holder will: -

• Take a leading role with the implementation of SMSJ’s Commitment to Learning policy
• Work directly with students, provide mentoring and/or pastoral support to overcome particular obstacles to learning in relation to pastoral, behaviour or attendance issues by running intervention provisions in school
• Take an operational lead on the implementation and maintenance of the school’s Commitment to Learning policy with students who need extra support
• Manage the supervision of students not working to their usual lesson timetable, either in the Reflection Room or in small groups or one to one
• Provide support and advice to students to promote their social skills, emotional wellbeing and personal development
• Liaise with teaching staff to provide particular support to targeted students to raise achievement and attendance and help them to overcome barriers to learning
• Work with the pastoral and inclusion team to provide input to the identification of needs, assessing those students needing extra support and the development of individual action plans for targeted students
• Following internal exclusions and suspensions work with targeted students to implement Pastoral Support Plans and ensure staff and students are ready for their return to lessons with strategies to ensure they are polite, hardworking and honest. Support restorative conversations between staff and students
• Assist in maintaining contact with students’ families/carers to inform them of progress, successes and concerns
• Provide extra support to students through knowledge of a range of activities and opportunities available
• Collate information and maintain records of student behaviour and progress using the MIS system, Classcharts and My Concern.
• Suspensions * Once notified of a fixed term suspension by the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), prepare suspension pack and send relevant documentation to parents, including updating documents on MIS/attendance Organise work request for students on suspension

*Book reintegration meeting with staff, parents and student

*Notify the exclusions team at London Borough of Barnet

• Monitor and collate data on behaviour incidents, uniform and punctuality, including detentions, and produce reports to support decisions around suspensions and permanent exclusions
• Impact analysis on behaviour incidents, uniform and punctuality, including detentions, and suspensions

Support for the School

• To undertake break and lunchtime duties
• Engage actively in ongoing professional development, including training in de-escalation, restorative approaches, trauma-informed practice and safeguarding
• To work within SMSJ policies and procedures
• To contribute to the provision of an effective environment for learning
• To support and encourage SMSJ’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures
• To uphold SMSJ’s policy in respect of child protection and safeguarding matters
• Undertake any other duties reasonably requested by SLT
• Such other duties as reasonably correspond to the general character of the post and its level of responsibility

Promotion of Corporate Values:

To ensure that customer care is maintained to the agreed standards according to the school’s values. To ensure that a high level of confidentiality is maintained in all aspects of work.

Flexibility:

The successful candidate may be required to carry out other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade, as requested by the line manager or the Co-Principals.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Mary's and St John's CofE School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 18
• Education phase: Through
• School size: Up to 1780 pupils
• Age range: 3 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mary's and St John's CofE School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mary-s-and-st-john-s-cofe-school-london

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