Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25557 - £26831 per annum
Mentor Coordinator (Pastoral Leader) job summary
Unity City Academy
Ormesby Road
Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS3 8RE
Salary: NJC 12-15 £25,557 - £26,831 (Actual) £27,711 - £29,093 (FTE)+ well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: 37 hrs per week, 42 weeks per year (1 week either side of the summer holidays is essential)
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: September 2025
Be the reason a young person believes in themselves.
Are you a professional within; youth work, social care, education or criminal justice? Your pastoral experience and emotional intelligence can be the key to elevate and guide young people to brighter, bolder futures.
We're looking for a dedicated and passionate Mentor Coordinator to join the team at Unity City Academy in Middlesbrough, in a permanent role working in partnership with MCR Pathways - an award-winning national charity. https://mcrpathways.org/
Our mission for this project is simple but powerful: to ensure that young people who are care-experienced or facing disadvantage are defined by their talent and potential, not by their circumstances.
As Mentor Coordinator, you'll be at the heart of this transformation - embedding our mentoring programme within the school and helping vulnerable young people believe in themselves and their future.
What You'll Do:
* Build powerful, one-to-one relationships with young people across Years 7 to 11.
* Deliver inspiring group sessions to younger year groups (7-8) as part of their curriculum.
* Recruit, support and motivate volunteer mentors - real people making a real difference.
* Champion each young person's talent, confidence, and potential.
* Work closely with school staff and external partners to make the programme a valued part of the school community.
* Report any safeguarding concerns to the school's DSL.
* Capture progress and outcomes of the young people engaged in the program.
What You'll Bring:
* Authenticity, empathy and a commitment to changing lives.
* The ability to engage young people and mentors with warmth, professionalism and persistence.
* A drive to see every young person achieve their full potential.
* Excellent organisational , data capture and planning skills.
What You'll Gain:
* A career with heart, meaning and tangible impact.
* The chance to be part of a nationally recognised movement.
* Daily rewards as you watch the lives of young people transform before your eyes.
About Unity City Academy
Unity City Academy is a thriving school in Middlesbrough with a strong focus on student success. We are a diverse and dynamic school with lots of character and tenacity. We've recently achieved an Ofsted 'Good' rating and are proud of our supportive community.
At our school, we ensure that you have the time and space needed to get on with what matters most - educating - so we remove as much administrative burden from you as possible.
Closing date: 8th July 2025
Interview date: 15th or 16th July
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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.
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Commitment to safeguarding
Academies Enterprise Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a robust, fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About Unity City Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1027 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
Thank you for visiting our website to find out more about Unity City Academy. As Principal, it is a genuine pleasure to serve the local community and the students of the school.
We passionately believe that every student should achieve the best they can. We call this “choosing a remarkable life”. There are six core areas which can be found across Unity City Academy:
Excellence is a habit where high expectations and high performance are the norm;
All students aim high, achieving results without excuses;
Individuals matter where equality, diversity and difference and celebrated and understood;
We are a community and a family at UCA and we always put people first;
We are worldwise citizens of tomorrow but also fiercely proud of our Teesside roots and our place within the north-east;
Culture is really important to us - it’s important to have fun.
We are on a journey to adopt the High Performance Learning (HPL) philosophy and framework. This is a well-researched approach that sees all students as potential high performers who are not limited by ability. As Principal, I am determined to ensure that your child gets the best education possible and that they can achieve their dreams without limit.
Students are invited to take part in a range of extracurricular activities and enrichment. We ensure that as well as academic success, our young people develop really positive characteristics that are needed in future life. These include curiosity, enthusiasm, empathy, resilience and self-belief.
I would strongly encourage you to visit the school, be it as a potential student with their parent or carer, a business looking to get more involved in the school’s curriculum or as anyone in the community that has an interest in the learning of young people.
We look forward to welcoming you to Unity City Academy in the future.
