Learning Mentor
Heycroft Primary School, LEIGH-on-SEA, Essex, SS9 5SJ3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP subject to negotiation
Closing date
30 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,308.00 Annually (Actual)
Learning Mentor job summary
Learning mentor – Job description
Job title – Learning Mentor
Grade – Scale 7 point 19
Responsible to – Head of School/ SENCO
Liaison with – Governors, staff, parents, pupils, and outside agencies
Purpose of role:
To provide targeted intervention both within and outside of the classroom to help identified children overcome barriers to learning. To support and improve children’s social, emotional, and mental health, and thus raise their achievement. To be a deputy designated safeguarding lead (DDSL).
Duties and responsibilities:
To work alongside teachers and the SENCO to identify children who could benefit most from a learning mentor, drawing up and implementing individual support plans (ISP) accordingly,
Work with pupils (1:1 and groups) to achieve individual support plans (ISP) targets. Liaise with other relevant staff in school to implement the agreed plan,
To ensure class teachers are given guidance, strategies, and resources so they can effectively build on the intervention's success,
Promote the speedy and effective transfer of pupil information from primary to secondary schools, across primary schools and within schools, to ensure that the arrangements for those moving or leaving are managed effectively,
To work closely with parents/carers to provide holistic support for the child in school and via relevant external agencies,
To participate in planning and review meetings where a child or family is known to external agencies, including social care,
To support identified children during unstructured times,
To maintain records,
To support with school attendance matters
To respond to the individual needs of pupils as they arise, supporting children both within and outside of the classroom so that they can access a positive school experience,
To help with children with medical needs, e.g. diabetes/allergies and intimate care.
General
To respect confidentiality at all times
To attend relevant school meetings/functions, as required
To attend relevant training and take responsibility for own development
To participate in the performance and development review process taking personal responsibility for identification of learning, development and training and opportunities in discussion with line manager
To comply with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role for health and safety in the workplace.
The duties of the post may be changed and/or varied (following consultation) to meet the needs of the school. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of duties.
This job description does not form part of the contract of employment. It describes the way the post holder is expected to perform and complete the duties set out above.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Heycroft Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 397 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Heycroft Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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