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  • Start date details

    2nd September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 July 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    8 July 2025

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

£13,652.44 - £14,906.49 Annually (Actual) Support Staff Grade 8. Full time equivalent £30,559.00 - £33,366.00

Learning Mentor Pastoral Support job summary

This role will help young people to understand and manage their emotions and behaviours, and develop positive coping strategies, using a therapeutic approach. This supports them in their emotional, social and psychological wellbeing to help them thrive in and out of school. We expect this role to work Tuesday - Thursday.


Larkmead is a happy and inclusive place, there is an opportunity to join our pastoral Care team, providing a tailored approach to support pupil well-being. Pastoral Care is part of an inclusive package for children at Larkmead, this small team provide tailored one to one or group support to young people addressing their individual needs. An essential aspect of this role is establishing supportive nurturing relationships with young people to enable open communication, promote a caring and supportive culture where concerns can be explored. This is a part-time term time only role for 19.5 hours per week with the possibility of some inset days required.

This role will help young people to understand and manage their emotions and behaviours, and develop positive coping strategies, using a therapeutic approach. This supports them in their emotional, social and psychological wellbeing to help them thrive in and out of school.

You will be working with school staff, families and external agencies to help develop a holistic approach to meeting their needs and maintaining accurate records of interventions and communication, identifying young people who may need additional support and signposting them and families appropriately to external agencies. Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration. Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions. Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive. The Larkmead promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.

We offer:

  • an excellent programme of induction and training which seeks to provide an excellent foundation for career progression
  • a forward thinking environment which recognises the benefits of considering flexible working patterns
  • a friendly, caring, supportive and collaborative team environment
  • a professional environment dedicated to Teaching and Learning with a supportive, dedicated and hardworking staff
  • Commitment to a positive culture and robust positive behaviour management
  • A commitment to recognise previous, continuous service.
  • A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
  • A Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Eligible for Blue Light discount card
  • Free parking
  • Free Eye Care Voucher

Larkmead is a school with clear, positive values, which add positive value to our students and staff. We are a diverse community and greatly value the contribution that colleagues from different backgrounds and with different experiences bring to our school.

If this sounds like the sort of opportunity and environment you are looking for in your career journey and you feel that you possess these attributes, then we very much look forward to meeting you.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch and visit the school prior to making a formal application.

The school reserves the right to consider and interviews candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

Larkmead School is a member of the Cambrian Learning Trust. Cambrian Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information. Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools' community.

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

At Larkmead safeguarding and student welfare is of paramount importance and to that end we will always put the physical and mental wellbeing of students first.

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About Larkmead School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
940 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Great teaching and learning across the school are supported by our culture of research and collaboration. Each student gets the very best experience to enable them to achieve their ambitions. Our pastoral care provides compassion, security and confidence, nurturing students to be happy, to develop and to thrive. The Larkmead Promise sets out our vision, ethos and ambitions for students and staff.

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