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Learning Mentor

Bedford Free School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9AD

This job expired on 3 December 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as relevant checks have been completed

• Closing date

  3 December 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 November 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,800.00 - £24,594.00 Annually (FTE) Advantage Schools Support Staff Bands 5-7

Learning Mentor job summary

Permanent – 37 hours per week (Hours: 8.15am - 4.15pm with ½ hour unpaid for lunch Monday-Thursday & 8.15am - 3.45pm on a Friday with 1/2 hour unpaid for lunch) Term Time, plus 2 weeks (Including 5 Training Days) – 0.9111 FTE

We are looking to recruit an outstanding and committed professional Learning Mentor to join our Pastoral team.

We want someone with very high expectations who loves working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve. You will want to be a part of a team that believes young people deserve the very best quality of education.

The Pastoral teamwork 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 of 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.

You will be a resilient team player with a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use your own initiative and problem-solve. 

WHY BEDFORD FREE SCHOOL?

At BFS our values drive everything that we do: RESPECT, HONESTY, HIGH EXPECTATIONS 

We are a genuinely comprehensive school that provides a knowledge-based education for pupils of all backgrounds, with the highest expectations of pupil conduct. We teach an unashamedly academic curriculum consisting of the best that has been thought and said and, as you would expect, truly inclusive, quality first provision is at the heart of this. 

We take workload seriously. We have no unwieldy and impossible marking policies, no written reports or endless meetings. We respect teachers as experts in their subject and prioritise giving time for departments to discuss what they are teaching, why and how.

Pupil behaviour is excellent, supported by clear systems and routines, including centrally delivered, same-day whole-school sanctions where necessary.

All of this means that you will be able to dedicate your time and energy into further developing the quality first provision for ALL pupils. 

PARENTAL CHOICE 

With waiting lists in each year group and GCSE results placing us amongst the top schools for pupil progress in the country, we are a hugely popular school. Demand for places is very high as parents want the combination of a BFS education and our distinctive small school feel for their children. 

For more details please look at the job description and person specification.

We reserve the right to close this post should a suitable candidate apply.

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.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Bedford Free School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 529 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bedford Free School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bedford-free-school

Set up in 2012 by local teachers and parents, Bedford Free School exists to offer families a choice in Bedford.

Bedford Free School is a unique school with a fantastic educational offer. We really do believe that our pupils can go on to achieve extraordinary things. In our young history, we have proved they can and we are now one of the highest performing secondary schools not only in the area, but in the country.

BFS is a small school of only around 500 pupils, so staff get to know each pupil as an individual and we have a family feel. This allows us to encourage, demand and collectively strive for academic and personal success.

We believe that all pupils deserve a ‘grammar-school’ style education, with access to an academic curriculum, strong discipline, high expectations and access to highly selective universities, and a wide range of extra-curricular activities.

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