Wellbeing Mentor
Middleton St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 3SW21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: The post is 35h per week (almost full-time), term time only. Monday to Wednesday: 8.15am-1.15pm/1.45pm – 4pm Thursday: 8.15am-1.15pm/1.45pm – 3.30pm Friday: 8.30am-1.15pm/1.15pm-3.30pm Negotiable hours within the school day.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- C2:15-C2:19 (£14.41-£15.43 per hour) TO S01:23 once fully trained
Hourly rate
- £14.41-£15.43 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Due to the promotion of our long-standing Wellbeing Mentor, we are advertising the fabulous role of Wellbeing Mentor at Middleton St Mary’s. This role was created during lockdown to support our children experiencing anxiety, emotional distress, turmoil, hurt and to help them feel good about themselves by recognising their feelings and developing self-help skills and regulation. This role has evolved and is much needed and valued.
Middleton St Mary’s CE (VC) Primary School is a two-form entry primary school in South Leeds. We serve the Middleton Community with close links to St Mary's Church and Leeds Diocese. The school is a larger than average primary school with 420 pupils on roll including a 52 place nursery. The school has 67 staff including 18 teachers and 4 Designated Safeguarding Leads.
The majority of our pupils are White British heritage and the proportion of pupils known to be eligible for pupil premium funding is much higher than average, 50% (200 pupils) with 76% of our pupils living in the top 10% of deprivation areas and 26% in the top 3% of deprivation areas - Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI). This offers many challenges to our children and we want to support them in the best way we can.
Wellbeing[ noun ]– the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy.
This is what the Oxford English Dictionary defines as wellbeing, but what does that actually mean? The short answer is… well, there is no short answer! What one person feels is their perfect state of wellbeing may be completely different from another person.
Well-being is something we want for all of our staff, children and families because it includes so many positive things — feeling happy, healthy, socially connected, and purposeful. Our motto is:
Believe, belong, achieve
This role will help us to achieve our school vision and motto. We want our children to feel listened to, valued, loved and believed in. Our Christian values are at the heart of our school and underpin a culture that promotes honesty, learning, respect, faith and responsibility and enables our children to know they are of immense worth and that they can make a valuable contribution to their school, community and the wider world. We want staff and children to feel of sense of pride and belonging within a warm, nurturing environment where they feel happy and safe to achieve well. If you feel that you can support this vision, then please apply.
The role will help to support targeted children to access school and homelife more positively to work out what they find worrying or challenging and assist them in developing emotional resilience.
The role will start each morning in the playground or on the street or in Breakfast Club, talking to children and their families. The day will progress to working with small groups and individual children and supporting transition back into class, liaising with teaching assistants and teachers. We will provide a lovely space to work in (The Den) with many resources and programmes. Ideally, we would like the mentor to cover weekly, one of our Year 1 or Early Years classes; leading teaching and learning in Reception and getting to know the children and families in this phase. The role may develop into a Designated Safeguarding role within our team.
Skills / requirements: • Ability to communicate effectively • Awareness of the boundaries involved when working with young and vulnerable people. • Commitment to equality and diversity • Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the school. • Good organisational skills. • Dependability and punctuality.
• An understanding of child development.
What the school offers its staff
- A highly regarded and vibrant school, extremely popular in its community
- Enthusiastic children
- A strong, supportive and experienced Leadership Team.
- A dedicated team of staff with a caring, family ethos
- Opportunities to further develop as a leader and DSL through PD.
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 complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Middleton St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Middleton St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- head@msmleeds.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01132717206
Middleton St Mary's is a large Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary School based in South Leeds. We serve the Middleton Community with close links to St Mary's Church and Leeds Diocese.
The school is a larger than average primary school with 440 children on roll including 42 children in nursery. The school has 70 staff including.
The majority of our children are White British heritage and the proportion of children known to be eligible for pupil premium funding is much higher than average, 48% with 76% of our children living in the top 10% of deprivation areas and 26% in the top 3% of deprivation areas - Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI).
Arranging a visit to Middleton St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email head@msmleeds.co.uk.
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