Learning Mentor - EBSNA (Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance)

Holywell School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK43 0JA

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  13 April 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  23 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,076.00 - £20,076.00 Annually (Actual)

Learning Mentor - EBSNA (Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance) job summary

Learning Mentor - EBSNA (Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance)

NJC Pt 7 - £20076 (actual salary)

(Based on working 32.5 hours per week, 8.45am to 3.45pm - Term time only. Hours include a 30-minute unpaid break and a 30-minute lunchtime duty

We are looking for an experienced colleague to join our Attendance and SEND Team as soon as possible. Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) is a ‘broad umbrella term used to describe a group of children and young people who have a severe difficulty in attending school due to emotional factors, often resulting in prolonged absences from school’.

You will work with students who struggle to come into school, perhaps due to a lack of confidence, anxiety or low literacy and numeracy skills and support them to return to school with the goal of consistently attending school full time.

This role will support the SEND provision, aiming to slowly reintegrate students back into full-time mainstream education. The ability to engage with students and families to build relationships and to raise the student’s resilience, self-confidence and self-esteem would be an essential skill. Eventually getting students re-introduced to the school environment via a bespoke on-site 'home from home' provision and gradually supporting students with barriers to learning and re-engagement with learning will be your priority. You will deliver interventions within the environment or enable them to access lessons through online links to gradually build confidence and re-engage with the curriculum and each curriculum area. Working with these students and enabling them to access main-stream schooling again will be both satisfying and rewarding. You will be supported by experienced colleagues who are committed and passionate about this important role within our school. As it is a new post, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence the success of this role and implement initiatives borne from your experience. It is essential that the successful candidate will already have at least two years’ experience of working with young people.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact Romana Tomei to arrange an appointment.

Holywell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare. We also have a sincere commitment to equal opportunity and to the celebration of diversity, including in our staff recruitment. We welcome applications from all sections of our community very warmly, and we recognise the huge strength and opportunity that comes from diversity in all aspects of our make-up. We will need to obtain references in advance of interview for any candidate short- listed, and all job offers are subject to satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.

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 Holywell School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 9 to 13
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 711 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 13
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Holywell School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/holywell-school

Holywell School is a caring, distinctively Christian, community-focussed Church of England School. We aim to continue the historic tradition of Church of England Schools by providing a Christian Values-inspired education of the highest quality within the context of Christian belief and practice. As a school, we are a loving, supportive community with high aspirations for all. We promote inclusion, we are proud to belong and we value each individual. We look after each other, believe in second chances and aim to be the best we can be so we can serve and support the common good.

Our vision is to ‘Live life in all its fullness’. We aim to be an outstanding Christian learning community where everyone is valued as a unique individual and where everyone feels safe. We will aim to be the best we can possibly be, to treat others as we wish to be treated and to make a positive difference to our community and beyond. We strive to be peaceful problem-solvers with open minds and hearts, living God’s love and being kind.

We are a popular and oversubscribed school of 700 students. 2021-2022 will see our final year of expansion. Although situated in the Local Authority of Central Bedfordshire, we straddle the border and have half of our population from Bedford Borough schools. Students are largely drawn from the two villages of Cranfield and Wootton. There is an increasing number of ‘out-of-catchment’ students who are applying to the school because of its good reputation. As part of Central Bedfordshire’s ‘Schools for the Future’ development programme, we are currently exploring a long-term plan to evolve into an 11-16 secondary school.

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