Senior Learning Mentor

Monteney Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S5 9DN

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  as soon as possible

• Closing date

  9 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 December 2025

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: £33,143.00 - £37,280.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £29969

Senior Learning Mentor job summary

Thank you for your interest in a career at Steel City Schools Partnership. We are a growing Multi Academy Trust, and there are currently 10 primary academies in the Trust.

SCSP has a proven track record of securing transformational change and sustainable school improvement. Our vision is to provide high quality education and deliver the best outcomes for young people within an ethos based on our vision and underpinning aims:

To provide an excellent education for all.

Achieving Excellence Sustaining Excellence Sharing Excellence

Our success is due to our biggest and most valuable asset - our staff team. We have a Senior Learning Mentor position available at Monteney Primary and we are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to work with us.

SCSP can offer you

• Guidance of a supportive and experienced leadership team who invest in the development of their teams and the Trust
• Free on-site parking
• Access to healthcare and wellbeing services
• Encouragement of further and continued professional development
• Local Government Pension Scheme

Our “Believe, Endeavour, Succeed, Together” vision drives policy, practice and governance in order to achieve the Trust and school aims, which are to provide a high-quality learning environment that inspires and motivates children, staff and the wider community to engage in education and learning.

Monteney (Ofsted Good - March 2023) serves the North of the city, the Parson Cross and Shiregreen estates. Approximately 37% of the pupils are deemed to be disadvantaged, with 30% of pupils on the SEND register. The school has a track record of Innovation and Leadership development. Monteney works closely with a range of external partners including feeder secondary schools. Monteney is a target English Hub network school for Early Reading and Phonics.

The Trustees of Steel City Schools Partnership are looking to recruit a permanent Grade 6, Senior Learning Mentor to start as soon as possible to complement the pastoral and inclusion team currently in place. The working pattern will be 37hrs / 41 weeks.

The focus of the role is to:

Provide a complementary service that enhances existing provision in order to support learning, participation and encourage social inclusion

Develop and maintain effective and supportive mentoring relationships with children and young people and those engaged with them

Work within an extended range of networks and partnerships to broker support and learning opportunities and improve the quality of services to children and young people

Undertake the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

The successful applicant must have the ability to work as an effective team member, be well organised, and have the ability to communicate with children and adults in a constructive and effective way. Flexibility in working with all age groups, and the ability to form excellent working relationships with pupils and staff is essential.

Expectations:

We are looking for an individual who has the capacity to take a lead role, along with the Headteacher, in the management and delivery of pastoral support to pupils within our school . As part of this you will be responsible for leading a team of other pastoral staff within the school. You will be expected to network with other Learning Mentors from the Trust and beyond. An in-depth understanding of all children’s needs is essential to ensure our children are receiving the best pastoral care along with the ability to be able to determine and support all pupils with particular needs.

Visits to school are encouraged and can be arranged by emailing enquiries@monteney.sheffield.sch.uk.

For further information please contact Nicola Osborne, Headteacher on 0114 246 7916.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Monteney Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 460 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Monteney Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/monteney-primary-school

Monteney (Ofsted Good – March 2020) is a National Support School serving the north of the city and the Parson Cross and Shiregreen estates. Approximately 28% of the pupils are deemed to be disadvantaged and the school is oversubscribed every year. The school has a track record of Innovation and Leadership development. Monteney works closely with a range of external partners including the feeder secondary school, as well as Learners First and Learn Sheffield.
Monteney is a creative, collaborative and inclusive school which aims to inspire and encourage every child to be the best that they can be. We pride ourselves in delivering an exciting and creative curriculum and providing high quality learning and pastoral support for our children as well as offering excellent CPD opportunities for all our staff. We have a supportive, innovative, friendly and well-motivated staff team who work collaboratively to develop practice and share ideas.
We are excited about how our focus on the development of our Monteney curriculum has started to further improve pupil outcomes and engagement in learning. Our children are enthusiastic with positive attitudes to learning and they all strive to be “Monteney Learners” encouraged by our Monteney values. This was recognised in our last Ofsted inspection (March 2020).

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