Sixth Form Learning Mentor

Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NX

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025, fixed term cover up to 19th December 2025 initially

• Closing date

  4 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,383.00 - £19,885.00 Annually (Actual) H5 pro rata, 4 days (up to 30 hours per week), term time only (38 weeks). Actual annual salary based on 30 hours per week. Full time salary range £27,115 - £29,330.

Sixth Form Learning Mentor job summary

4 days (up to 30 hours per week), term time only (38 weeks)

Salary: H5 pro rata, FTE annual salary £27,115 - £29,330

Actual salary: £18,383 - £19,885 (based on 30 hours per week)

Start date: September 2025, fixed term cover up to 19th December 2025 initially

We are looking to recruit a Sixth Form Learning Mentor to join the school’s outstanding Sixth Form team for a fixed term appointment. This is a key role in the Sixth Form team; mentoring sixth form students to ensure they make outstanding progress in their academic studies.

The role also includes monitoring performance and attendance of students and developing positive attitudes to learning. We are looking for someone who has the ability to inspire and motivate students, possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills and is passionate about supporting young people through this crucial stage of their education and development. We welcome applicants from a wide range of training and employment backgrounds and can consider a job share. You will join a team with two other Learning Mentors and a wider Sixth Form team.

Our Sixth Form achieved an 'Outstanding' judgement from Ofsted in February 2024. 'Pupils aspire to join the impressive sixth form at the school. Students reach levels of scholarship found in university studies and achieve exceptional outcomes' - Ofsted 2024.

If this is something you are looking for in your career, please don't hesitate and we would love to hear from you!

Sandringham School is committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates and encourage those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics, to apply.

Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and ATLAS Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub and is also a designated.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 4th August 2025.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Ambition 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. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

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 Sandringham School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1817 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sandringham School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sandringham-school-st-albans

Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.

We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'

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