Learning Mentor
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
3 July 2026 at 8am
Date listed
19 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,495.00 - £26,712.00 Annually (FTE) FTE £25,495-£26,712 pro rata £22,124-£23,180
Learning Mentor job summary
Learning Mentor
We are looking to recruit an outstanding and committed professional Learning Mentor to join our Pastoral team who believe young people deserve the very best quality of education. We are seeking someone with very high expectations who loves working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve.
The Pastoral team work with teachers and other support staff, ‘going the extra mile’ to ensure that we provide the very best for our pupils and families. It is important to us that you buy into and share the ethos and vision of the school.
Our trust is known for its ‘no excuses, can-do’ culture that seeks to prepare all its pupils to have the opportunity of a pathway to university. If you are passionate about helping all pupils, regardless of background, to achieve this, then this could be the role for you.
The ideal candidate will be a resilient team player with a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use their own initiative and problem-solve.
KEY DUTIES
To be responsible for providing one-to-one or group or class support to pupils with barriers to learning and SEND.
To carry out innovative & effective intervention programmes under the leadership of the SENDCo and in line with Houstone School’s ethos of high expectations
To be responsible for effective administration duties where necessary
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: asap
Salary: AS 5-7 FTE £25,495-£26,712 actual pro rata £22,124-£23,180
Job role: Permanent, Full time, Term time +5 INSET days, 39 weeks, 37 hours per week
Hours: Mon-Thu 8.15am-4.15pm, Fri 8.15am-3.45pm, 30 mins unpaid for lunch
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
The safeguarding and welfare of children is paramount and all our staff share this view. Applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding and child protection checks including with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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