Student Mentor
Woodeaton Manor School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9TS10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 33.5 hours per week Monday to Friday between the hours of 8.20-15.00 Monday to Thursday and 8.20-14.45 Friday (days and hours to be discussed in interview)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 6, point 8-13. Hourly rate £13.47-£14.60. Actual salary £17,670.24-£19,146.16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose:
To provide mentoring support for students:
- Supporting students to access lessons and engage in learning
Strategic Role:
- To provide clearly defined, time limited student mentoring support.
- To collaborate with fellow professionals in developing effective strategies for students
- To report on the outcomes of each case
- Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school.
Mentoring:
- To use a variety of methods and approaches to meet the range of pupils’ needs and ensure equal opportunity for all pupils.
- To develop pupils’ independence to take responsibility for their own learning
- To set high expectations for all pupils
- To use positive management of behaviour and de-escalation techniques in an environment of mutual respect which allows pupils to feel safe and secure, to promote their self-esteem.
- To consider the needs of all pupils within lessons and to implement specialist advice to maximise accessibility to the taught lesson
- Supporting students with a trauma-informed approach
- To plan and implement programmes to support students’ academic social, emotional and mental health needs.
Subject Knowledge and Understanding:
- To keep up to date with research and developments in mentoring
Monitoring, Assessment, Recording, Reporting and Accountability:
- To be responsible for the processes of referral and identification of students who require mentoring.
- To contribute towards the formulation and subsequent implementation of pupil’s documentation including the ILPs and EHC plans as detailed in the current Code of Practice, particularly the planning and recording of appropriate actions and outcomes related to set targets.
- To assess pupils’ work as required
- To be familiar with statutory assessment and reporting procedures and to prepare and present informative, helpful, and accurate reports to parents/carers and other professionals.
Professional Standards & Development:
- To be an outstanding role model to pupils through personal presentation and professional conduct
- To co-operate with the Governors and the SLT in all matters concerning Health and Safety and specifically to take reasonable care of their own Health & Safety, and that of any other person who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.
- To be familiar with the school handbooks and support all the school’s policies.
- To establish effective working relationships with professional colleagues and associate staff
- To strive for personal and professional development through active involvement in the school’s appraisal process
- To consult effectively with parents/carers and with other agencies with responsibility for pupils’ education and welfare
- To undertake any reasonable task as agreed with the curriculum area as agreed with the Headteacher or SLT
- To be familiar with the current SEND code of practice
- Perform any reasonable professional duties as directed by the Headteacher or other SLT.
Pastoral Care Responsibilities:
- Responding to all issues of safeguarding following the school policy
- Ensuring the confidentiality of all pupil information and data
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A commitment to support you in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences
- The opportunity to make a huge contribution to the education and lives of children who
respond very positively to high quality teaching
- A dedicated leadership team committed to supporting our staff
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Woodeaton Manor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 18
- School size
- Up to 84 pupils
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Woodeaton Manor School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865558722
Welcome to Woodeaton Manor School. We are a daytime and residential Foundation Special School that offers a nurturing environment for 84 pupils. All our pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and they have social, emotional and mental health difficulties. We are able to offer places for pupils in Key Stages 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Woodeaton Manor caters for a wide range of special educational needs, including the following diagnosed or described conditions:
Attachment Difficulty
Autistic Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger’s Syndrome
Dyspraxia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Specific Learning Difficulties, i.e. Dyslexia
Speech and Language Disorder
Tourettes Syndrome
A large proportion of pupils have mental health issues and require extended support from a range of multi-professional services.
Woodeaton has extended its age limits twice since its re-designation. In 2009 Woodeaton established its Sixth Form provision and in June 2012, Woodeaton lowered the age limit to admit six Key Stage 2 age pupils who are taught in ‘The Nest’. Woodeaton also became a Foundation School on 1st April 2008.
Our school at a glance:
Woodeaton Manor School is the first school in Oxfordshire to be awarded the Quality Care Mark for Looked After Children (LAC) at an Outstanding level (January 2017). This mark demonstrates our school has excellent practice around those children in care and those caring for others.
Have a highly experienced and qualified staffing team
Provide high quality teaching and social experiences
Focus on personalised and individual needs of pupils
Work in a multi-professional way
Maximum class size of ten
High levels of staff support
In-house Educational Psychologist
A Readiness for Learning team who support pupils through interventions and/or outreach work. The team will also support pupils who might be struggling during the school day
Regular visits from an Occupational Therapist and a Speech and Language Therapist (one day a week and one day a fortnight respectively)
Provision of play therapy, if required
Regular whole school trips and residential experiences both in the UK and abroad
Specialist rooms for Art (including a kiln room), Food Technology, ICT and Science
Self-contained residential area for boys and girls
Excellent catering arrangements
Our school day starts at 8.20 a.m. every weekday and finishes at 2.30 p.m. every afternoon.
The total time in school for each pupil is 30 hours and 50 minutes.
Arranging a visit to Woodeaton Manor School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk.
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