SEND Learning Mentor
The Latimer Arts College, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6SWThis job expired on 16 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. 39 weeks per year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- Actual £19,026 - £19,329 (FTE £25,183 - £25,584)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek to appoint a SEND Learning Mentor to support in maintaining high standards of student attendance and punctuality to lessons. Whilst attendance is in line with the national average, it continues to be a whole school priority and we are always seeking to improve key students’ engagement with our whole school learning environment. This role will be about re-engaging SEND students with the classroom and supporting them to attend lessons successfully.
Interested candidates will ideally have a good knowledge of Social, Emotional, Mental Health and SEND and prior experience of school attendance procedures and processes, however, whilst experience with attendance procedures would be an advantage, this role may also suit those with experience as a teaching assistant or other relevant areas such as LAC and Pupil Premium.
This role will be incredibly fulfilling but equally as demanding. We require someone who has strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate in a patient and resilient way, whilst smiling and remaining positive throughout. You will be part of the Learning Support Team and line managed by the SEND Provision Lead, but will liaise with the attendance team and teaching staff.
The successful candidate should:
- Be motivated to work with children and young people to ensure they are successful
- Have a commitment to, and belief in, the equal value of all students
- Have an ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
- Have emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and attitudes to use of authority and maintaining discipline
- Have the ability to implement relevant highly effective behaviour management strategies with children and young people
- Have the ability to raise self-esteem and expectations of children and young people
- Have experience of supporting students within a secondary school environment
- Have knowledge and understanding of SEND
- Have strong ICT skills, especially in the use of Word and Excel
What the school offers its staff
- Regular staff wellbeing activities and social events
- Free access to our sporting facilities (up to 6pm weekdays)
- Health Assured (Employee Assistance Programme) - a free confidential information, support, counselling and advice service available 24 hours a day
- School funded flu jab on site, organised through a local pharmacy
- Eye Care Vouchers for employees using a VDU
- Employer Pension Contribution – Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Teachers). Local Government Pension Scheme (Non-Teaching Staff)
- Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave and Pay
Further information about the job
This is a permanent post.
The hours of duty are 8.10am – 3:10pm for 4
days and 8:10-4:00pm one day a week to support with homework club, (including a
daily unpaid break of 40 minutes) term time plus training days.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Latimer Arts College
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1219 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vacancies@latimer.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01536 720310
At The Latimer Arts College we are committed to ensuring that everyone in our school feels safe, happy and valued. We are over-subscribed, with approximately 1250 students aged 11-18 who are nurtured and guided through their education in a purposeful and caring community ethos based on respect for all.
We are a Foundation school, supported by a Governing Body and the Local Authority. We are not part of a corporate Trust and can truly say we are a community school.
With our students at the heart of all that we do, we expect each member of the community to uphold our core values of Honesty, Excellence, Ambition, Respect and Teamwork. We encourage the development of leadership and resilience, to ensure students leave with the skills required for employment and future success. We also model the fundamental British values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs. We aim to make a positive contribution to both our local community and wider society.
We have a passionate belief in the value of a well-rounded education and it is our intention to unlock the true potential within each and every individual, whatever that may be. We work collectively to motivate our students to place no boundaries on their ambitions, no limits on their aspirations and remove any barriers to their achievement. Through our high expectations we inspire our students to achieve excellence and be the best that they can be.
Our staff are essential to our success and so we are fully committed to their wellbeing and professional development.
We seek to appoint staff who thrive on collaboration, innovation and a desire to be amazing: colleagues who have a passion for improving student achievement and personal development. It is our responsibility to nurture you to deliver this success.
We have a highly successful induction programme for new staff, including an ECT programme, and we offer an extensive range of training throughout this. We are passionate about supporting professional development to equip staff with the skills, knowledge and understanding that they need to not only fulfil their roles but most importantly to be fulfilled by their roles. We offer continual staff development and frequent training opportunities.
We are committed to the DfE Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and have a varied programme of activities and support in place for our staff. This is responsive and evolves annually based on context and needs, with our staff voice being instrumental in shaping what we provide. We have a very low staff turnover and staff morale is high, this was evident in the last Ofsted report, in staff voice, and the fact that many staff choose to send their own children to the school.
Staff Benefits
Amongst the things that we offer are:
- We aim to enable full-time teachers to have the equivalent of an hour a week work from home (WFH) and an hour a fortnight for part-time teachers
- Non-teachers are rewarded with golden afternoons three times a year
- A laptop is provided for every teacher and many non-teachers
- A commitment to the DfE Education Staff Wellbeing Charter
- Regular staff wellbeing activities and social events
- Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Free access to our sporting facilities (up to 6pm weekdays)
- Health Assured (Employee Assistance Programme) - a free confidential information, support, counselling and advice service available 24 hours a day
- School funded flu jab on site, organised through a local pharmacy
- Eye Care Vouchers for employees using a VDU
- Full School Teachers Pay and Conditions, including continuous service, for Teaching Staff
- Employer Pension Contribution: Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Teachers) and Local Government Pension Scheme (Non-Teaching Staff).
- Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave and Pay
- A caring ethos that enables staff to attend family commitments and caring responsibilities
The Wider Curriculum
We have a thriving House system, with two forms from each year group making up one of our four Houses. This system epitomises the caring, community ethos, and encourages a little healthy competition too!
At The Latimer Arts College we passionately believe that participation in enrichment activities plays a significant contribution to personal growth and high academic achievement. That is why we provide a range of extended opportunities throughout, and beyond, the academic year. There is an expectation that all teaching staff will offer enrichment and this is factored into directed time. Non-teaching staff can also support both tutor groups and enrichment should they wish to, as well as whole school events.
The enrichment programme offers something for everyone, and we are always open to new ideas from students and staff. We encourage students to take part in as many of the exciting activities on offer as possible.
We believe in rewarding and recognising success in all aspects of academic and extra-curricular life. This culminates in our annual Pride of Latimer Awards Evening.
Our Facilities
Ensuring that our staff and students can thrive in a positive learning environment is one of our key priorities. Each learning area is well-equipped with the specialist resources that individual subjects require. We have a state-of-the-art Science Block, the Masque Theatre, a multi-use Sports Centre and a 4G all-weather pitch. Significant investment has been made in the site in recent years which means that we are the proud owners of a separate Sixth Form and Staff Café, a dedicated Sixth Form Centre, modern toilet block and extended canteen. Staff teams have individual bases or offices, as well as access to a central staff room.
We continue to invest and innovate to improve the learning environment for all. The Latimer Arts College provides an excellent environment to teach, learn and work in.
Arranging a visit to The Latimer Arts College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@latimer.org.uk.
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