Senior Learning Mentor
Marshalls Park Academy, Romford, Essex, RM1 4EH26 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,828.00 - £31,291.00 Annually (Actual) Scale 5 or Scale 6 (dependent upon experience)
Senior Learning Mentor job summary
We are seeking a caring and patient Senior Learning Mentor with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our successful academy and play a vital role in supporting academic progress, emotional wellbeing and social development.
Our new Senior Learning Mentor will deliver targeted interventions for disadvantaged students to build resilience and remove barriers to learning. With Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (‘ELSA’) training (or a willingness to undertake this), they will have a strong understanding of adolescent wellbeing and emotional development gained from prior experience supporting young people in pastoral care, behaviour support or safeguarding.
We are seeking an experienced professional who can:
apply their experience, training and skills to develop, evaluate and review individual progress;
deliver structured ELSA interventions (both 1:1 and small group) alongside mentoring;
promote student engagement and reintegration through tailored support plans;
work collaboratively with families and external professionals in a multi-agency approach;
maintain accurate records in line with safeguarding and confidentiality requirements;
oversee the supervision, management and professional development of learning mentors.
You will be working Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm (36 hours per week), term time plus INSET days (39 weeks per year). Please see the Job Description for more information about this role.
Why Marshalls Park Academy?
Marshalls Park Academy is a vibrant, over-subscribed, mixed secondary school of 11-16 year olds. Situated in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering, we currently have 1200 students on roll. Having rapidly expanded, we now accept 240 spaces into our Year 7 cohort. The school has an excellent reputation within the local community, which is enhanced every year with our ever-improving academic performance and widening student achievements.
We are an Ofsted ‘Good’ school (2020), which “pupils are proud to attend” with “a strong sense of community”. Our staff are well-supported and enjoy working at the school; they “appreciate leaders’ support to reduce their workload and promote their well-being.”
Why SWECET?
At South West Essex Community Education Trust, we are passionate about providing the best start in life for our pupils. We are united in the belief that every young person needs and deserves an education that will maximise their future life chances.
We place our pupils’ needs at the heart of everything we do and support our colleagues in delivering high-quality education. Our vision is to establish a national reputation for the quality of education we provide.
Our academies are united by the things that make us both similar and unique - the DNA that ties us all together. The SWECET DNA is made up of the following components: Developing our people, Nurturing our differences, and Aspiring for excellence.
We believe that our colleagues are our most precious resource to provide high-quality learning experiences for all our pupils. Our colleagues work hard to support teams in their own schools and across the Trust and in return, the SWECET Wellbeing Charter sets out our actions to support our colleagues.
If you have energy and passion in abundance and would relish the opportunity to be part of our team, we look forward to hearing from you. Visits from prospective candidates are warmly welcomed and encouraged. To arrange a visit, please email recruitment@swecet.org.
If interested in this vacancy please submit your application for the position as soon as possible, as we may close the advertisement early.
South West Essex Community Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including reference checks with previous employers, online checks and an enhanced DBS check with the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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 Marshalls Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1175 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Marshalls Park Academy website
Our vision is to ensure that all of our students are enabled to achieve to the very best of their ability and beyond. We will achieve this by ensuring that every lesson counts; through good and outstanding teaching and focusing on the individual needs of each and every student. In many respects, our philosophy is straightforward; we want all of our students to receive an excellent education to help them to prepare for their future lives.
It is an exciting time at the school as we expand to 1200 students over the next five years, and the associated site developments that will allow, that will help this very popular school move into its next phase. More importantly, we believe passionately that to achieve lasting school improvement, the critical element is the investment a school places in its staff, and that starts from recruiting the best teachers and ambitious leaders to instil that climate of change in the school.
Neil Frost, Headteacher
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