Learning Mentor
City of Derby Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 3ARThis job expired on 9 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
9 February 2025 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 5 - £24,215 - £26,244 Pro-rata (£28,034 -£30,383 FTE)
Learning Mentor job summary
Temporary (Potential rolling contract linked to pupil funding)
Purpose: To offer academic, personal and emotional support and guidance to our young people not only within the classroom but throughout the wider school, therefore improving life chances.
Main Duties
- Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work closely with teaching staff at the Academy to address the needs of students requiring particular help to overcome barriers to learning, and to provide a range of strategies to help pupils achieve their full potential by further developing their skills.
- Support identified students both in the class room and in the Extended Learning department. This may include physiotherapy and hydrotherapy sessions.
- Support learning and behaviour for individual and for groups, as directed.
- Support the corporate life of the Trust and project a positive image of the Trust.
- Work collaboratively with the Trust colleagues and to contribute towards the quality of teaching and learning and achievement and behaviour for all students to encourage self-esteem and progress so students can be the best they can be.
- Support the efficient, effective, economic and safe use of resources, having due regard to the policies of the Trust.
- Contribute to the production, monitoring and review of effective resources and action plans in line with the Trust’s defined objectives and performance targets.
- Develop skills to meet the requirements of the post and to respond flexibly in order to meet the needs of the Trust and identified students with SEND.
- Act responsibly in order to build mutual confidence and respect and foster effective working relationships with all.
- Act as a role model, challenge and motivate, promote and reinforce self-esteem and establish productive relationships with students.
- Be committed and sensitive in ensuring equality of opportunity for pupils.
- Ensure that the legal, statutory and other relevant provisions governing of affecting the Trust are strictly observed.
- Ensure that target groups of students are supported.
- Ensure that senior staff, the line manager, SENCO and relevant teaching staff and year heads are kept informed about each student’s progress and that all support is in line with the Trust’s expectations, policies and practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Have a clear focus with a target group of pupils of improving their attainment and behaviour.
- Provide senior staff with relevant information about students in order that students needing support can be identified effectively and appropriate interventions agreed.
- Work with other staff to draw up and implement action support and interventions for students with SEND.
- Provide a range of opportunities for the target group of pupils to support them in achieving their targets, both in a 1:1 or group setting
- Maintain regular contact, where appropriate, with families of SEND STUDENTS to keep them informed of the student’s progress. To secure positive family support and involvement in the pupil’s education.
- Work closely with the SENCO and Class Teacher to ensure that the needs of the students are planned for, and me.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on the success of all interventions and support the SENCO.
- Have full knowledge and appreciation of the range of activities and interventions in an academic setting.
- Take part in all appropriate INSET as identified by the Trust.
All adults employed by the Trust are responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children they are responsible for or come into contact with. Whilst every endeavour has been made to outline all the duties and responsibilities of the post, this document does not specify every item in detail. Where broad headings have been used, all associated duties are naturally included in the job description.
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.
About City of Derby Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 955 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- City of Derby Academy website
At the City of Derby Academy, we believe that academic outcomes are important and our expectation is that we will achieve national progress standards. However, we do not measure the success of our students by their examination results alone. Students access a balanced curriculum and we continually strive to develop characteristics such as self-confidence, self-belief and self-esteem so our students are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
We believe that when the school, parents/carers and students share high expectations every child will achieve great things. This includes having an excellent attitude centred on respect, high standards of appearance, good manners, full attendance and punctuality.
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