Learning Mentor Pastoral and Behaviour Specialist

Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  19 October 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  7 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £28,451.00 - £30,334.00 Annually (FTE) AS 11-15 FTE £28,451-£30,334 pro rata £24,689-£26,324

Learning Mentor Pastoral and Behaviour Specialist job summary

Learning Mentor - Pastoral and Behaviour Specialist

We are looking to recruit an experienced and committed Learning Mentor - Pastoral and Behaviour Specialist to join our wonderful school that believes young people deserve the very best quality of education. We are seeking someone with very high expectations who loves working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve.

At Houstone, our values of Integrity, Ambition, Excellence are underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our staff enjoy their roles with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.

Joining Houstone School as a Learning Mentor - Pastoral and Behaviour Specialist is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story - providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable.

Our trust is known for its ‘no excuses, can-do’ culture that seeks to prepare all 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.

Key Duties

• To be responsible for providing one-to-one or group support to pupils with Social, Emotional or Mental Health Needs.
• Provide on-call support to respond to behavioural incidents, pupil welfare concerns, and urgent matters during school hours, ensuring timely intervention and adherence to school policies and wellbeing procedures.
• To be responsible for the effective administration and organisation of behaviour systems within school (e.g. daily corrections and behaviour points).
• To oversee and carry out innovative and effective behaviour intervention programmes in line with Houstone’s ethos of high expectations.

The successful candidate will have

• Recent and effective experience of tutoring/mentoring/managing pupils with challenging behaviours.
• Experience of working with children with SEND and EAL.
• At least C grade or equivalent in English and Maths GCSE. and Level 3 qualification
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, and parents.
• Experience of working with outside agencies who support pupils with social, emotional or mental health needs.
• Experience of data input/monitoring and analysis. Confident IT user.
• Proactive and flexible approach to work, with the ability to adapt to different situations and challenges.
• Empathy, patience, and a genuine passion for working with children and young people.
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviours and able to motivate and encourage pupils
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of safeguarding.

JOB SPECIFICS

Start date: asap

Salary: AS 11-15 FTE £28,451-£30,334 actual pro rata £24,689-£26,324

Job role: Permanent, Full time, Term time + 5 INSET days, 39 weeks per year, 37 hours per week

Working Hours: Monday-Thursday 8.15am-4.15pm and Friday leaving at 3.45pm with 30 minutes for lunch

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

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 Houstone School

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 765 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Houstone School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/houstone-school

Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.

There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.

Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.

Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.

We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.

Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.

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