Learning Mentor
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PXThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
30 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- English Additional Language (EAL), Special Education Needs (SEN), Learning Mentor
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,090.00 - £25,884.00 Annually (FTE) AS 5-7 FTE £25,090-£25,884 actual pro rata £21,773-£22,462
Learning Mentor job summary
Learning Mentor
We are looking to recruit an outstanding and committed Learning Mentor to join our wonderful school that believes 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 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.
At Houstone, our values of Integrity, Ambition, Excellence are underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our staff enjoy their roles with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
Joining Houstone School as a Learning Mentor is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story – providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable.
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.
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
The successful candidate will have
- Experience working in an educational setting (Desirable, experience of supporting children 1:1 or supporting in class learning)
- Experience of working with children with SEND and EAL.
- At least C/ 4 grade or equivalent in English and Maths GCSE. and Level 3 qualification
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, and parents.
- Proactive and flexible approach to work, with the ability to adapt to different situations and challenges.
- Empathy, patience, and a genuine passion for working with children and young people
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviours and able to motivate and encourage pupils
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of safeguarding.
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: 1st September 2025
Salary: AS 5- 7 FTE £25,090-£25,884 actual pro rata salary £21,773-£22,462
Job role: Permanent, Full time, Term time +5 INSET days, 39 weeks, 37 hours per week
Working Hours: Monday-Thursday 8.15am-4.15pm and Friday leaving at 3.45pm with 30 minutes for lunch
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
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.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- 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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