Learning Mentor

37 hours per week, 38 term time weeks + 5 INSET Days (39 weeks total)

**Salary**:Grade 8 SCP 28-33, Full Time Equivalent Salary - £32,655-£37,035 (Pay Award Pending)

**Actual Salary**:Actual Salary - £28,462.56-£32,281.36

Are you a compassionate and creative individual with a passion for supporting young people with additional needs? Do you believe in the power of nature and positive relationships to help students thrive? St Martins School are seeking a Learning Mentor with experience in outdoor learning and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) support to join our dedicated team at a specialist secondary school. They will work dynamically and collaboratively with the school’s senior leadership team, class teams and families as we work together to Shape Successful Futures.

**The Role**:
As a Learning Mentor, you will play a key role in supporting students’ emotional wellbeing, engagement, and progress both in and out of the classroom. You will:

- Work closely with individual students, small groups and class groups to promote positive behaviour, emotional regulation, and resilience.
- Use outdoor learning and nature-based activities to engage students who may struggle in traditional classroom settings.
- Deliver targeted interventions and mentoring sessions tailored to students’ social and emotional needs.
- Be a consistent and trusted adult presence for pupils who need strong, stable relationships to succeed.
- Collaborate with teachers, SENCOs, therapists, and families to create holistic support plans.
- At times, used to cover lessons where needed.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- Experience supporting young people with SEMH needs, ideally in a special school or alternative provision setting.
- A strong belief in inclusive education and trauma-informed practice.
- Knowledge or training in outdoor learning approaches (e.g. Forest School, bushcraft, gardening, therapeutic play).
- A calm, empathetic and proactive approach to supporting challenging behaviour.
- A team player who is flexible, reflective and committed to making a difference.

The hours of work for this post are: Monday and Thursday - 8:15am-4:00pm, Tuesday and Wednesday - 8:15am-4:45pm, Friday - 8:15am-2:45pm.

St Martins School and Horizons 6th Form is an 11-19 Special School in Derby, with a mixed student profile of children and young people with a range of learning difficulties and additional complex needs. St Martins shares a site with Noel-Baker Academy in Alvaston, whilst Horizons 6th Form is based in Derby city centre. We received our fourth consecutive 'Outstanding' OFSTED in October 2024 and we continue to aspire to the highest standards for students and our staff teams.

Our Special settings cater for children and young people with a wide range of Special Educational Needs from children with profound medical needs and life limiting conditions, those with severe, moderate and sensory needs through to young people with social emotional and mental health needs that require support and understanding to help them to navigate their world.

Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a healthcare professional or work in facilities, admin or operations all of our Special Schools offer you the opportunity to work within an establishment that has a ‘family’ feel that puts the children, young people and their families at the heart of what they do.

**Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment**:

- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- **Support Staff only** based on working **full time, all year** - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (**37 days holiday** **rising to 39 days** after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you **grow, contribute** and **flourish** in your role and in the Trust.

**Colleagues within the Trust benefit from**:

- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications - NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

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