Student Support Mentor
Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QXDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Permanent, Full Time, Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,721 - £29,514
What skills and experience we're looking for
Skills
Ability to work flexibly in a team situation whilst being able to prioritise, show initiative and work independently, ensuring key tasks are achieved within deadlines.
Working with others, the ability to assess and review young people and family circumstances and plan appropriate responses.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excellent organisational and administrative skills
Good interpersonal skills
The ability to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of young people and families/carers with different ethnic and social backgrounds.
Ability to see the coaching role as a long-term activity designed to achieve the goals in the learning action plan.
An ability to do something worthwhile for young people, to understand their needs and to gain insights into how they thing.
Ability to engage in joint goal setting with the individual child.
Experience
Previous experience of working within an educational setting
Previous experience of working with young people
Experience of working with children with behavioural needs
What the school offers its staff
- Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
- A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
- Access to a generous pension scheme
- Access to discounted travel schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Comprehensive training and support
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Free flu vaccine
- Access to e-learning and development
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.
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About Lees Brook Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1095 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lees Brook Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@archwaytrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 671723
Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.
At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.
Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.
Mrs Z House - Headteacher
Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@archwaytrust.co.uk.
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