Subject Support Mentor
The JCB Academy, Rocester, Staffordshire, ST14 5JX8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
21 August 2024
Closing date
11 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
2 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Business studies, Engineering, English, Mathematics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time: 40.42 hours per week, Monday-Friday term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,898-£30,745 - Actual salary is £22,408-£27,671
What skills and experience we're looking for
We currently have opportunities to join our dedicated team of Subject Support Mentors who work within either a subject team (Business, Engineering, English Mathematics, Science ) or our inclusion/SEND team.
The JCB Academy is committed to changing the lives of young people by developing them into the engineers and business leaders of the future. Working in your assigned team, you will support disadvantaged learners from Y9, Y10 and Y11 to make progress. You will also provide classroom support for learners with specific learning needs and Education Health Care Plans. In addition, you will act as mentor to a group of mentees across the three year groups. You will need to be able to understand learners’ barriers and the strategies which will ensure they are best supported to grow in confidence, make positive progress and achieve academic results which secure their next steps. Other duties will include lunchtime supervision (for which you will receive a duty meal), exam invigilation and supervising cover lessons for absent teaching staff.
What the school offers its staff
The JCB Academy develops engineers and business leaders from Y9 to Sixth Form and provides Intermediate (level 2) and Advanced (level 3) apprenticeship programmes. We also deliver Businessand Engineering T-levels which provide learners with additional choices after their GCSEs. Working with the likes of Bosch Rexroth, Harper Adams University, JCB, Rolls‑Royce and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, we ensure that the curriculum is embedded in real industrial practice and includes genuine industrial challenges. Our aim is to provide a world class experience to learners and staff.
We are situated close to Uttoxeter, a picturesque market town supporting a variety of independent shops, cafes and bars. The town is surrounded by characterful villages with an abundance of culture and attractions right on the doorstep. This great value location has quick links to major cities, high quality homes that allow younger people and families to get onto the property ladder and close access to the glorious Peak District.
We offer a benefits package which includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme (including financial guidance, legal enquiries, support for issues at home and at work), access to JCB’s dental scheme (monthly fee), free access to the academy’s gym, free on-site parking and Cyclescheme.
Commitment to safeguarding
The JCB Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About The JCB Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 13 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 812 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The JCB Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@jcbacademy.com
- Phone number
- 01889 506100
Everyone involved in The JCB Academy works together to provide a truly world class educational institution serving the needs and aspirations of young people across the West Midlands.
Our mission is changing lives by developing the engineers and business leaders of the future. To do this we will work tirelessly to ensure that those entrusted into our care have every chance to achieve success. It is important that learners achieve well academically to ensure that they can compete in the marketplace for higher education places and employment. It is also important that we work to develop those core skills essential for success, not just in the world of work but also in life. The JCB Academy looks to ensure that all learning enables young people to develop: can do/positive attitudes; the desire to achieve through actions; creative and enterprising behaviours; a willingness to learn in the pursuit of technical and academic excellence; and team work and leadership capability.
We have high expectations of each and every learner who will join us. Great store is placed upon self-discipline, good behaviour, uniform, teamwork and cooperation. These traditional values are at the heart of all we undertake at The JCB Academy.
The JCB Academy is a demanding and stimulating place to work. One where you will be supported to achieve your very best in a fantastic working environment.
We offer a benefits package which includes an Employee Assistance Programme (including financial guidance, legal enquiries, support for issues at home and at work), access to JCB’s dental scheme (monthly fee), free access to the academy’s gym, free on-site parking and Cyclescheme.
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