Wellbeing Mentor

**Post Title**: Well-being Mentor
**Location**:Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
**Salary Pay Range**: NJC 07 to NJC 11, Actual Salary £21,929 to £23,450
**Hours of Work**: Full-time (maternity cover), term-time plus 2 weeks, 37 hours per week, 41 weeks per year
**Reporting to**: Well-being Lead, within the Inclusion and Intervention: Well-Being Team

We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, committed and reliable individual to work with a newly formed well-being team. The successful applicant will provide a range of practical and emotional support strategies to the students and their wider family/carer networks. As a member of the wider Pastoral Team, the Mental Health and Well-being Mentor will provide higher level support for students to help overcome personal barriers and improve their social, emotional and mental health and well-being.

**Nature and Scope**

Working as part of the reception team you will be required to carry out the following duties, detailed below. The nature of the Academy Year requires some of these tasks to be done regularly, whilst others will be on an annual cycle.

The post holder will be expected to use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages where appropriate.

**Overall Purpose of Post**

The well-being mentor will guide and support young people in their personal, social and educational development to help them reach their full potential both at school and in society.

You'll generally work with young people aged between 11 and 18 and assess the needs of young people to correctly plan and deliver programmes related to areas such as self-esteem, academic engagement, attitudes to learning, health, fitness, smoking, drugs, gangs, violence, relationships and bullying.

Typical responsibilities may include:

- mentor, coach and support individuals, encouraging greater social inclusion and academic engagement
- support young people in different settings, including outreach work
- work in partnership with professionals from other organisations that support young people such as social care, health, police, education, youth offending teams and local authorities
- attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings, bringing together practitioners from different sectors as part of a 'team around the family' (TAF) approach
- undertake administrative tasks, maintain effective recording systems and respond to queries
- work with parents and community groups to win support for improved provision and act as an advocate for young people's interests
- identify and pursue sources of funding for projects to improve services and/or resources for young people

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
- Attend any externally held meetings with outside agencies where appropriate to the job role
- Work term time only for a 37-hour week
- Undertake professional development activities to enhance personal development and job performance, through provision of training or mentoring
- Comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Participate in appropriate meetings with staff and senior management
- To adhere to existing working practices, methods, procedures, undertake relevant training and development activities and to respond positively to new and alternative systems
- To adhere to school policies on equality and diversity
- Use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages where appropriate

**General Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To work independently and with other members of the faculty to develop secure knowledge on how to support vulnerable children and their families
- Provide particular and skilled support to pupils with complex emotional, behavioural, communication and social needs
- Work with and have accountability of student’s wellbeing, for all students on a caseload
- Working with individuals or small groups of children under the direction of the Wellbeing lead
- Understand the different challenges that face young people as they grow up
- Implement planned learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupils’ responses as appropriate
- Establish positive relationships with supported pupils
- Support with poor attendance, building relationships with students and parents/carers
- Support with reintegration plans encourage and maintain students' school attendance
- Complete safe and well checks at students’ homes, as required
- Promote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies
- Monitor and record work completed with young people, drawing any problems which cannot be resolved easily to the attention of the teacher/Line manager
- To attend to pupils’ personal needs including help with social, welfare, physical and health matters, including minor first aid
- Liaise with staff and other relevant professionals and provide information about pupils as appropriate
- To assist with escorting pupils on educational visit