Learning Mentor

Location: Newcastle
Job Type: Permanent
Industry: SEN
Reference: gesw
Salary: £83 - 100 per day
Job Published: 2 days ago

The Role:

  • Work closely with the school's pastoral team as a learning mentor, providing support to students in overcoming learning barriers.
  • Lead initiatives targeting individual and small groups of students, creating an environment conducive to learning and personal development.
  • Establish and maintain open communication channels with teaching staff, parents/carers, and additional needs/EAL staff to ensure a holistic approach to student support.
  • Supervise and support students in the Focus Area, offering guidance on tasks, ensuring completion of assignments, and collecting work.
  • Maintain accurate daily records and efficiently perform necessary administrative tasks.
  • Develop and implement personalized action plans for students identified by the pastoral team, conducting individual or small group meetings based on a predetermined schedule.
  • Collaborate with the pastoral team to innovate and implement effective support and intervention packages for students.

Rate dependant on qualifications and experience.

You must:
• Be eligible to work in the UK 
• Have professional experience working with SEND children in the UK in the last 3 years
• Have up to date professional childcare related references (covering the last 2 years)
• Have an enhanced DBS disclosure on the Update Service or be happy to apply for one

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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