We are seeking to appoint a Learning & Engagement Mentor. This is a permanent position for 31.5 hours per week, term time only to start in May 2025.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference for our most vulnerable children? Do you have the motivation and commitment to change children’s lives by ensuring they reach their educational potential?
The role involves working with individual and small groups of children with challenging social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. These pupils may have complex emotional and behavioural needs that need to be carefully managed, and experience of working with these kinds of learners would be desirable. As a Learning & Engagement Mentor, you will be working with and supporting children with a wide range of needs across the school.
Some of the work with these pupils is delivered via an ‘Alternative Provision’ programme and will involve working alongside a successful and supportive Inclusion Team to provide a range of activities that not only support the children’s academic learning, but also allow them to build their own resilience and abilities to self-manage their emotional state and behaviour, with the ultimate goal being full time reintegration into their mainstream classroom setting.
Many of these pupils also benefit from accessing our Outdoor Learning Area and so experience of or a genuine interest in working and running this type of setting, or any similar ‘Forest School’ style provision is desirable.
The work the successful candidate will carry out can be challenging and complex at times but is also highly rewarding and you will be well supported.
The successful candidate will:
- demonstrate an ability to be flexible in their approaches,
- be able to establish meaningful positive relationships quickly,
- have a well-established range of strategies for coping with sometimes challenging situations,
- guide the pupils’ learning towards independence,
- be committed to Ark Blacklands’ ethos of high expectations,
- have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of pupils.
View the full job description and person specification here
If you would like to discuss this opportunity or for any queries, please contact Joe Coleman by email at [email protected] to arrange a visit to the school or an informal chat.