Learning Mentor
The Ravensbourne School, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9EH2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
5 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 May 2024
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Learning Mentor
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 3 Point 5 – 7 (1 year fixed term)
Learning Mentor job summary
JOB TITLE:Learning Mentor
SALARY: Scale 3 Point 5 – 7, 39 weeks, 36 hpw
CONTRACT TYPE: 1 year fixed term
LOCATION: The Ravensbourne School, Hayes Lane, Bromley BR2 9EH
REPORTING TO: Inclusion Manager
The Learning Mentor will be based in and manage the Inclusion Hub to ensure pastoral interventions support pupils to optimise their learning experience in school, especially in their behaviour for learning habits. They will implement appropriate processes to track, monitor, and evaluate impact on pupil progress. This role is to play a key part in reducing exclusions and referrals from lessons using a robust, proactive, and high performing behaviour system. This role will also focus on restorative work, ensuring students have access to mentors, workshops, targeted support sessions and daily behaviour for learning conversations.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership and Management of Intervention and Support
Liaise with appropriate middle and senior leaders to manage and/or implement and track behaviour intervention for pupils depending on the severity of the needs.
Keep track of local and relevant external service providers for pupils and ensure that these are implemented and managed in school to support pupils with behaviour needs.
Provision map the need and interventions for identified students to ensure highest possible impact and value for money.
Use the appropriate behaviour tracking system to monitor, evaluate and review pupil progress to ensure they meet their minimum threshold set by the school.
Ensure that day to day systems relating to the management of the inclusion rooms and referral systems are robust and have impact.
Parents/Guardians are updated daily via phone calls, letters and/or emails to inform them their child has been referred to the restorative room.
Managing the room ensuring silence, high expectations, completing B4L conversations
Managing internal referrals/SLT referrals
To examine data related to behaviour (i.e., Arbor, referrals, and exclusions) to put effective systems in place to mitigate against negative trends across groups and/or individuals.
Behaviour for Learning
To have oversight of the day to day running of the Inclusion Hub.
Attend all relevant meetings to do with behaviour and teaching and learning.
Ensure profile sheets are implemented for relevant pupils and ensure that staff are clear about their roles and responsibilities.
Act as a mentor or keyworker for certain pupils.
Liaise with all relevant partners across the school to ensure early identification of pupils at risk of disengagement.
In partnership with the pastoral team and where appropriate, provide whole staff CPD on inclusion and behaviour management.
To actively seek out new intervention strategies and to be responsible for keeping up to date with new inclusion strategies and legislation.
To act as part of the strategic Safeguarding Team and ensure that safeguarding is effective and child protection actions implemented.
Where appropriate ask teachers for feedback on student work.
Be aware and comply with all safeguarding policies.
To undertake any additional duties as requested by Line Manager or SLT
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
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About The Ravensbourne School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1433 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Ravensbourne School website (opens in new tab)
The Ravensbourne School is a large and truly unique 11-19 school, set in the heart of Bromley. There are 1500 students, with 440 students in Post 16. Some of the buildings are Grade II listed, dating back to 1911 whilst other additions are more recent. The buildings, coupled with the extensive 22-acre grounds, make up elegant and inspiring surroundings.
Our vision is that every student is prepared to be the best they can be in life and able to create their own future. We believe that every student is different and has unique talents. Through developing these talents and knowledge each student can be the best they can be and in control of their own future. We value an inclusive learning environment that accepts no excuses and builds partnerships with all stakeholders.
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