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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    6 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Full time: 40 hours per week 

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

UQ2: £29,745.00 per annum 

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Pastoral Team 

The Pastoral Team is led by a Vice Principal and is also comprised of ELT Pastoral Leads, the Head of SEND Inclusion, Heads of School, the Heads of Year and the Pastoral and Safeguarding Administrator. The Pastoral Team is essential in maintaining the purposeful and disciplined environment in which Mossbourne students excel. The Pastoral Team supports the daily smooth running of the Academy and is also intrinsic in supporting the personal development of the students in our care.  The Pastoral Team is highly visible at all times around the Academy and form the Safeguarding Team (Designated Safeguarding Leads) at the Academy. 

Job Summary 

Students selected for mentoring present with a wide range of support needs that are often managed and frequently overcome with the support of a Learning Mentor. Mentoring provides support for students who experience barriers to learning. Mentoring provides 1:1 adult guidance for learning, in a constructive, supportive and professional setting and is an intrinsic and successful element of the pastoral support system. Learning Mentors work closely with both the Pastoral Team and CSD Team in order to best support students on their caseload. You must be passionate about education, well organised and willing to go the extra mile. 

The Senior Learning Mentor is responsible for overseeing the team of Learning Mentors, which includes managing caseloads of all learning mentors, planning and co-ordinating interventions, liaising with Heads of Year regarding students on the Learning Mentor caseloads and waiting lists, and overseeing administration tasks and record keeping.   

What the school offers its staff

Federation staff are rewarded through the comprehensive package of benefits listed in our Federation Recruitment Brochure, including:

The Mossbourne Allowance (T&Cs apply)

Free lunches (T&Cs apply)

Tea, coffee and refreshments provided for staff throughout the week

Benenden health membership, to support health and wellbeing, fully paid by the Federation

Early finish on Friday – secondary academies

Free staff fitness classes

Cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes

Discounts at local restaurants

Discounted gym membership with the ability to spread membership costs

Saturday and holiday paid programme

Special leave scheme

Staff appreciation awards and events

First rate professional development and career opportunities

Financial support for career development (T&Cs apply)

‘Introduction Bonus’ for current staff (T&Cs apply)

Remuneration for exam board marking (T&Cs apply)

If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, we welcome your application.

Commitment to safeguarding

Mossbourne Federation reserves the right to modify job descriptions to ensure the needs of the Federation & students are met. Mossbourne Federation provides equal employment opportunities to all employment applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or status. The document is not a comprehensive list; it simply outlines expectations of the role. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. The post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.

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About Mossbourne Community Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1432 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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The Mossbourne Federation’s flagship academy, Mossbourne Community Academy (MCA) is built on high expectations and doing right by the pupils in our care. We are driven to ensure that MCA pupils have future choice and opportunities, succeed in their chosen career pathway and make positive contributions to society. MCA has not only changed the face of education in Hackney, but has also raised the bar in educational expectations to the highest level; we achieve recognition, nationally, and annually, for setting a new benchmark for non-selective comprehensive education. All pupils, regardless of race, gender, background or ability, are encouraged to achieve their true potential and the behaviour of our pupils is exemplary. With outstanding GCSE and A-level results, year on year, Mossbourne Community Academy is placed within the top 1% of schools in the country. We are tremendously proud that our most recent Ofsted Inspection, dated November 2021, judged the academy as ‘outstanding’ and starts with the sentence ‘Mossbourne Community Academy changes pupil’s lives for the better’, because that is what we do, year on year. In 2023, Mossbourne Community Academy was named the top comprehensive school in London in The Sunday Times ‘Good Schools Guide’, the 5th most oversubscribed school in England and the most oversubscribed school in London. Such recognition is testament to the pride, hard work and dedication of our staff body, pupils and parents.

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