6 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    February 2025

  • Closing date

    5 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    29 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Casual Contract, Variable Hours - Although this is a casual role, there is an expectation of availability for 2 hours per week.

Contract type

Casual

Hourly rate

Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale B: £12.26 per hour (plus holiday pay)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • Qualified up to A level in the subject being mentored.

Experience: • Preferably mentoring within a school environment.

Knowledge and understanding: The mentor should have knowledge and understanding of: • the theory and practice of providing effectively for the individual needs of all students • the monitoring, assessment, recording and reporting of students’ progress; • the statutory requirements of legislation concerning Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, SEND and Child Protection; • the positive links necessary within the academy and with all its stakeholders; • effective teaching and learning styles.

Skills: The mentor will be able to: • promote the academy’s aims positively, and use effective strategies to monitor motivation and morale; • develop good personal relationships within a team; • establish and develop close relationships with parents, governors and the community; • communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) and be approachable to a variety of audiences; • work in an organised manner, committed to the task in hand; • be resourceful, enthusiastic and patient to create a happy, challenging and effective learning environment.

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

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

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About Jane Austen College

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1062 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Jane Austen College is a thriving secondary school and sixth form in the heart of Norwich city centre. We combine the modern and traditional, marrying academic rigour and innovative teaching techniques. Our sixth form is one of the top performing in Norfolk and we have been rated by Ofsted as Outstanding in four out of five areas, with an overall rating of Good.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with Charles Darwin Primary and Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form as well as the Trust's other schools around the region.

Arranging a visit to Jane Austen College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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