Student Support Mentor

ACE Tiverton Special School, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 5HB

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP - pending pre-employment checks and notice period

• Closing date

  20 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  10 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,992.00 Annually (FTE)

Student Support Mentor job summary

As part of our planned expansion, we are looking to recruit a full-time Student and Family Support Assistant to support high quality intervention, care and support to our students that enables them to access their teaching and learning.

We currently have a strong team of specialist Student and Family Support Assistants from a diverse range of backgrounds who have developed specialist knowledge and skills area, based on their previous experience, training, skills, and areas of interest. We would be particularly interested in hearing from applicants with skills in developing therapeutic support such as speech, language, or occupational therapy. Special Educational Needs, Mental Health and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition experience could be an advantage, but our overriding priority is to find the right people to join our team and full training will be given.

You will work with a team of Teaching and Student Support staff to equip students with life skills that will enable them to thrive as independent, skilled adults who can navigate the multiple demands of the wider world. We are looking for proactive, resilient practitioners with the ability and flexibility to act as a key person for individual and small group of students, overseeing specialist and Student and Family Support alongside assisting with the wider Student Support care of our young people as part of their daily school experience.

We are developing an excellent reputation for providing student-centred learning and support with the highest level of challenge to ensure our students attain the highest standards of personal, social, emotional, and academic development. We have 70 students currently on roll and a further cohort of 20 students joining in September 2022, all of whom are in receipt of an Education, Health and Care Plan. If you want to help us deliver bespoke, innovative support tailored to the needs of our unique students, then we would love to hear from you.

What we can offer you

As a new school, there are many exciting benefits to working at ACE Tiverton. Not only are we located in the centre of Devon with excellent transport links, we can also offer you:

• The chance to be part of a growing school community and to influence how we evolve over the next few years.
• A brand-new £4.5 million building with state-of-the-art facilities and resources, including laptops for all students and teachers, and Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices for support staff.
• A strong, happy, experienced team of staff - plus 3 therapy dogs!
• Access to high quality CPD, including Team Teach physical intervention training.
• The opportunity to be involved in developing a new curriculum from scratch.
• A school day running from 8am-2pm with an early finish of 1:30pm on Fridays.
• Freshly prepared hot meals provided by our own school chef.
• The opportunity to work alongside a multi-disciplinary team to provide support for students.
• Health Assured provide our employees with a range of benefits including funded physiotherapy sessions, counselling sessions, free eye tests, member discounts, great deals and cashback on shopping, travel, and restaurants.

Please see the attached candidate pack for more details about the role.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact the

Assistant Headteacher for Student and Family Support, Mrs. Stacy Fagg on 01884 763 140 or email stacy.fagg@transformingfutures.org.uk

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 ACE Tiverton Special School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• School size: 115 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: ACE Tiverton Special School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ace-tiverton-special-school

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