Lead Practitioner for Mentoring - The Avenue School : Job Details

Lead Practitioner Payscale

April 2025 start

The Avenue Special School is looking for creative, motivational, and inspiring professionals.Our vibrant and friendly school community supports more than 250 pupils, aged between 3-19, with a range of severe or profound learning difficulties, some physical disabilities and autism. We have small well-resourced classes and a real passion for supporting young people to have active and healthy lives through an exciting education both in and out of the classroom.

Working at The Avenue provides you with the opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of young people with special educational needs. It also allows you to progress in your career, taking on responsibilities and developing your passions and interests.

The Avenue cares deeply about CPD and balancing workloads to allow staff to flourish, so we offer a full programme of training and mentoring, staff wellbeing days, and the chance to work in a supportive and encouraging team environment where your voice really does matter.

Our ambitious school is rapidly expanding, and we need dynamic and committed professionals to join our excellent team. Successful candidates will be strong team-players, compassionate, and dynamic creative thinkers. If you’re excited about the skills you can bring to one of our classrooms, we would love to hear from you!

In conjunction with the leadership team, line managers and HR colleagues within the school you will lead on ensuring appropriate and bespoke programs of coaching and mentoring are planned for and delivered as appropriate to the individual, which could link to course requirements. You will support individuals in becoming impactful and reflective practitioners, whilst gaining appropriate qualifications to support their career development.

There is a directed teaching time with this role of two days a week. This commitment may be class based or an offer of specialist teaching which will be agreed with the Headteacher.

You will be an inspirational teacher with proven experience of leading an initiative at a strategic level and be able to demonstrate evidence of implementing and maintaining a culture which prioritises staff well-being and development, whilst prioritising the needs of our pupils.

Closing date 9 am, Monday 3 February 2025.

Interviews will take place week commencing 10 February 2025.