SEN - Learning Mentor - Reed : Job Details

We are seeking a post 16 intervention mentor to join the team

Are you a dedicated and committed individual who can put yourself in other people’s shoes, are positive, flexible, resilient and can use your initiative?

If so, you could make a difference to the lives of these young people.

Your job is about building relationships and committing to helping students make progress, both academically and personally.

You will:

• undertake educational activities
• attend to the educational, personal and social needs of students
• support learning and development
• ensure student safety
• develop approaches to maintaining students who are in crisis.

Personal qualities such as integrity and being able to work effectively as part of a team are more important than experience in this field, which is why our staff join us from different roles and trades.

Main Responsibilities:

To plan and deliver targeted interventions, e.g. literacy, numeracy, social skills

To be actively involved in the support and monitoring of student progress by:

• Raising the level of academic achievement of targeted groups of students e.g. those in receipt of pupil premium
• Devise and implement strategies to raise the academic achievement of students
• Monitor the progress of pupils towards their academic targets and help students to achieve this
• To be actively involved in academic mentoring
• To support identified students with focused literacy, numeracy and social skills programmes
• Responsible for checking and monitoring of attendance to targeted interventions
• To monitor the attendance of pupil premium students
• Work with line manager and Lead Intervention Mentor to develop and promote strategies to raise self-esteem, and promote emotional regulation
• To maintain appropriate records to help monitor outcomes, upkeep of plans, review to do sheets and schemes of work
• To produce a half termly summary of pupil progress and complete case studies as required
• Undertaking CPD and further research as required to expand own knowledge and skills base
• To contribute to the extra-curricular programme offered by the Academy
• To apply the Academy’s behaviour management policy and report any difficulties

These responsibilities might be carried out in some of the following ways:

• Liaising with teaching staff to support teaching and learning
• Working with parents
•  Induction of new pupils
• Working with students on a 1:1, 2:1 or small group basis
• Working across a range of settings, on and off site
• To contribute to meetings through presentations and advice

Undertake any other similar duties as may from time to time be required by the Deputy Principal.

Apply today!