Learning Mentor with Base Lead responsibility

Sheffield Inclusion Centre, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 2JQ

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  9 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week Term time only - 39 weeks per year
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary £29,683 pro rata including responsibility allowance
• Pay scale: Grade 6

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Sheffield Inclusion Centre is made up of 9 sites and you will have overall responsibility and oversight for one of our Roma Slovakian bases. You will provide leadership for staff and children and focus on the day to day running of the base and ensure pupils attend well, have a positive learning experience and are safe and sound. We have excellent relationships with families in working through social issues, undiagnosed or unmet needs and supporting social needs.

You should also include in your application:

1. Examples of leadership experience.

2. Your experience with vulnerable/disadvantaged children

3. Examples of your commitment to self-development and your levels of professionalism.

We are looking to appoint base leads from a variety of backgrounds and work experiences. Your big personality is more important to us than your qualifications.

Applicants will ideally meet the following criteria:

• confident

• energetic

• good sense of humour

• team player

• flexible

• thoroughness

We are a multi-site school, therefore holding a driving licence would be advantageous.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer our commitment to your professional development and the opportunity to make a very real difference to the lives of our children.

Further details about the role

Thank you for your interest in the role of Learning Mentor with Base Lead responsibility. This is a very important roles in our next steps from Ofsted good to outstanding. Our Bases are small centres for up to 15 pupils. They are very different in nature – some being nurture (SEND), others being ESOL or one focused on outdoor learning. This post will be based at one of our Roma Slovakian bases.

At Sheffield Inclusion Centre we support and develop the careers of support staff and these opportunities have been constructed so that we have a strong non-teaching presence in school.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiries@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Learning Mentor with Base Lead responsibility May 2025.docx - 149 KB (opens in new tab)

About Sheffield Inclusion Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 262 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sheffield Inclusion Centre website
• Email address: enquiries@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0114 2531988
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sheffield-inclusion-centre

All our children have been permanently excluded from mainstream school. Some children are reintegrated back to mainstream. Young people come to us with unmet Special Educational Needs and in some cases a full assessment of need is carried out resulting in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

We feel we are the most important school in Sheffield with some of the most vulnerable and at the same time vibrant children in the city. Many of our children have unsettled home lives and mental health difficulties. Therefore, it is important to role model behaviour and always show children unconditional positive regard.

Everything we do is based on relationships and building trust.

Our children have not had the best start to their young lives in education so we need to help them become ready to learn and then to accelerate their learning so we provide a brighter future with improved life chances.

Arranging a visit to Sheffield Inclusion Centre

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@inclusion.sheffield.sch.uk.

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