Senior Learning Mentor - Birkenhead, United Kingdom - Empowering learning

Empowering learning
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Birkenhead, United Kingdom

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Join our team as a Learning Mentor in Birkenhead

Up to £21,000 per year


Empowering Learning Manchester are recruiting for a Learning Mentor to join a high performing, progressive and innovative Alternative Provision located in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

This provision aims to provide quality education for students with special needs, empowering them to reach their full potential. This school believes in creating a safe, nurturing, and stimulating learning environment that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and individuality.


Requirements:
Learning Mentor

  • Experience working with children with special needs
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • A passion for teaching and supporting students with special needs
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and a positive attitude

Job Description - Learning Mentor

Key Areas and Job Responsibilities:


Pastoral

  • Meet with pupils and parents as necessary to address pastoral concerns
  • To develop, agree and implement time bound action plans with groups or individuals linked to the needs of vulnerable pupils and to maintain accurate records of work for each identified pupil
  • To liaise closely with school staff to ensure that everyone understands and supports the strategies being used to develop pupils' skills for learning and learning behaviour
  • To contribute to the identification of barriers to learning for individual children and provide them with a range of strategies for overcoming barriers
  • To work closely with the SLT, SENDCo, Safeguarding Officer and Attendance Officer to improve attendance of vulnerable pupils
  • Take a joint lead to develop pastoral care of pupils, providing CPD as necessary
  • Lead workshops and arrange external talks to educate parents in pastoral trends and issues facing pupils

Pupil Wellbeing

  • Take a lead role in developing and implementing practices which reflect the school's commitment to positive behaviour and emotional wellbeing
  • Contribute to schools positive behaviour policy
  • To deliver interventions to groups or individuals, to meet their needs
Management and General

  • To be a point of contact with parents/carers in relation to pastoral care and behaviour
matters - liaising with teaching staff and senior leaders

  • Follow up all correspondence from parents/carers to ensure enquiries have been dealt with
  • Meet parents as required
  • Attend Senior Leadership Team or staff meetings as required
  • To keep up to date with the range of activities, courses and opportunities, organisations and
individuals that could be drawn upon to provide support to pupils and build up a detailed knowledge of support available

  • To attend training and professional development sessions
  • To assist where and when necessary with the induction of pupils
  • To liaise with Pastoral team keeping them well informed about their pupils which you mentor/support
  • To ensure the DSL is informed immediately of any concerns relating to safeguarding in relation to the students you mentor/support
  • To attend team and School meetings and those that are specifically in relation to the pupils that you mentor/support, such as pastoral support programmes or liaison with multi agencies
  • To maintain accurate records on named students which measure the impact of your intervention providing regular feedback/reports
  • To undertake other duties, appropriate to the post, as may be required from time to time

Safeguarding

Benefits for the learning mentor

  • A competitive salary
  • A supportive and welcoming work environment
  • Ongoing professional development opportunities
  • A chance to make a real difference in the lives of students with special needs

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent, Temp to perm

Contract length: 4 months


Salary:
£18,278.32-£21,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension
  • Free parking
  • Onsite parking

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Work Location:
In person


Reference ID:
LM-BH

Expected start date: 27/03/2023
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