Learning Mentor

Grove Academy

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**POST: Learning Mentor**

**REPORTING TO: AHT with oversight for Behaviour**

**RESPONSIBLE FOR: Ensuring that pupils undertake a pre-prepared lesson during a teacher’s absence, support students and work closely to support the pastoral and curricular systems both operationally and administratively.**

**LIAISING WITH: Lead Teachers/teaching/support staff/parents, as appropriate.**

**WORKING TIME: 37 hours a week, 39 weeks per year Monday to Friday.**

**SALARY/GRADE: Level 5 SCP 13 **£25,950 - £31,153 (Pro rata actual salary starting at £22,187.25 depending on experience)

**PURPOSE**
- To provide support and guidance to children and young people who are experiencing difficulties in learning due to social, emotional or behavioural problems or other issues.
- To supervise a group of pupils during the absence of a teacher to ensure that pupils carry out a prepared lesson, maintain good order and to keep pupils on task, responding to questions and assisting pupils to undertake the set activities.

**MAIN (CORE) DUTIES**
- Provide a mentoring service that meets the needs of students who require help in overcoming barriers to learning that prevent them from achieving their full potential, both inside and outside school.
- To establish supportive relationships with pupils.
- Model professional behaviour at all times in line with the staff code of conduct
- Support the operational smooth running of the school
- To support teaching, SEND and other staff in identifying those children who are significantly underachieving / disengaged from learning
- Communicate, distribute and supervise work that has been set by the teacher in accordance with the school policy.
- Manage the behaviour of pupils whilst they are undertaking this work to ensure a constructive and purposeful environment.
- Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies according to the school’s policies and procedures.
- Collect any completed work after the lesson and return it to the appropriate teacher/administration officer.
- Report back to the teacher as appropriate using the schools agreed referral procedures on the behaviour of pupils during the class, and any issues arising.
- Provide general clerical/administrative support, e.g. input and retrieval of data into computerised and manual systems, taking registers, etc, as required.
- To contribute to PSHCE, citizenship and enterprise as required.
- Accompany staff and pupils on educational visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the direction of the teacher/organiser.
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
- Attend and participate in regular meetings as required.
- Assess work as required.
- Participate in training and other learning activities as required.
- Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others.
- To comply with the school’s health and safety and safeguarding policies.
- To supervise communal areas around school ensuring the behaviour of pupils remains at an optimal levels including lunch time.
- To support the general welfare of pupils as necessary including after school activities.
- To assist in the classrooms/library as required.
- To work with small groups/individual pupils as required.
- To invigilate and supervise during internal and external examinations.
- Identify those students who would most benefit from the learning mentoring scheme and take the lead in drawing up a PSP with appropriate targets under the guidance of the line manager, SENCo, and SLT.
- To undertake general administrative work as required and maintain a record of evaluations to support effective practice.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.

Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

Employees are expected to be courteous to colleagues and provide a welcoming environment to visitors and telephone callers.

The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

This job description is current at the date shown, but following consultation with you, may be changed by Management to reflect or anticipate changes in the job which are commensurate with the salary and job title.

Grove Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Person Specification: Cover Supervisor/Admin Support/Learning Mentor

**ESSENTIAL**

**DESIRABLE**

Knowledge Required

Educated to GCSE or equivalent to Grade C (or above) in English