Learning Support Mentor
The Macclesfield Academy, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 8JR12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,403.00 - £26,403.00 Annually (FTE) Support Staff Grade 5 (SCP 7-11) £26,403 FTE (Annually) / Actual salary dependant on hours appointed
Learning Support Mentor job summary
Role: Learning Support Mentor
Salary: Support Staff Grade 5 SCP 7-11
Contract type: 6 Months Fixed Term
Reporting to: Learning Support Manager
Start date: ASAP
About Us
This is an exciting time to be joining our Multi Academy Trust, which collectively educates over 4300 children, and employs over 450 professionals. Each of our good and outstanding academies operates at the heart of their local communities. The Foundation’s central offices are based at Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College campus set in beautiful grounds.
This role is based at The Macclesfield Academy, where we proudly put ‘Learning Above All’. We know that by ensuring learning is at the heart of everything we do, both for students and staff, we all succeed together. The standards we set ourselves and the students are unapologetically high. We expect and demand the very best from all members of our community every single day.
About the Role
We are recruiting a Learning Support Mentor to join our team of LSMs who provide direct support for pupils with special educational needs with a focus on social, emotional and mental health needs.
Your Responsibilities
- Please refer to the job description attached.
What we are looking for
- Level 2 qualifications in English and Matchs at Grade C/4 or above (or equivalent)
- Experience of working with secondary age students
- Experience of working with students with special educational needs
Closing Date: 7th November 2025
Interview Date: To be confirmed
If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Learning Support Mentor, please complete the application form today! You are strongly encouraged to get your application form submitted at the earliest opportunity, as we reserve the right to close our adverts earlier than advertised where sufficient applications have been received.
We’d love to hear from you!
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant must have enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. The school is an equal opportunities employer.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Macclesfield Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 639 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Macclesfield Academy website
School location
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