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Learning Mentor

Heycroft Primary School, LEIGH-on-SEA, Essex, SS9 5SJ

This job expired on 30 September 2024 – see similar jobs

• 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.

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About Heycroft Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 397 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Heycroft Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heycroft-primary-school-leigh-on-sea (opens in new tab)

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