Learning Mentor

The Role

We seek to appoint a committed and dynamic Learning Mentor who has the relevant qualifications and proven experience of working with young people. The role is to provide support, motivation and guidance to help pupils overcome barriers to their learning. These will include safeguarding, family issues, mental health problems or a lack of confidence.

The successful candidate will be required to provide support and guidance to young people to help them overcome barriers to learning, ensuring that individual pupils engage more effectively in learning and participating in the life of the school. Candidates will have the ability to identify and target those pupils at risk, and help them identify and address barriers to learning. Mentoring will take place one to one or in small groups so you will have excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for: day-to-day safeguarding needs of students in a year group, CPOMS, assisting with; administration, meetings, EHAT, communication with parents/carers and external agencies. 

You will be joining the Academy at a very exciting point along its journey to excellence. In March 2022 the school was judged to be ‘Good’ for the second consecutive time by Ofsted and we have been oversubscribed for the last two years. In this report, Ofsted have highlighted the following about our school:

·        Pupils said that Halewood Academy is a caring community.

·        Leaders have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and learning.

·        Pupils achieve well, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

·        Leaders take positive action to support the workload and wellbeing of staff.

The successful candidate will be pivotal in our journey to outstanding.

You will be given full support in your career development as we believe that development of staff is a key aspect in raising standards for our students. You will benefit from visionary, inspirational and dynamic leadership and be empowered to develop your own skills with access to world-class CPD. We are committed to professional development and have a strong track record of supporting colleagues to progress in their careers.

Qualifications

Skills