Learning Mentor Pastoral & Behaviour Specialist

Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  1 September 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Special Education Needs (SEN), Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, Learning Mentor
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,569.00 - £29,393.00 Annually (Actual) AS 11-15 FTE £27,569-£29,393 pro rata £23,924-£25,507

Learning Mentor Pastoral & Behaviour Specialist job summary

Learning Mentor ( Pastoral & Behaviour Specialist)

We are looking to recruit an outstanding and committed Learning Mentor who is experienced in providing pastoral and behaviour support and 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. The ideal candidate will be a resilient team player with a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use their own initiative and problem-solve.

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 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.

Overall responsibilities:

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.

Job Specifics

Start date - September 2025

Salary - AS 11-15 FTE £27,569-£29,393 actual salary will be pro rata

Contract - Permanent, Full time, Term time + INSET days, 39 weeks per year, 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday

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

Safeguarding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

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

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 657 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School 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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