Learning Mentor

**Learning Mentor**

Location: Bristol and South Gloucestershire

Start date: January 2026 (dependent on completion of satisfactory reference and DBS checks)

Contract: Permanent, all year round

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, Mon - Fri

Starting Salary: £25,000 per annum

**Please note that interviews are expected to take place on 26th & 27th November 2025.**

**Who we are**:
We support children and young people living in Bristol, South Glos and the surrounding areas, providing engaging play and youth work embedded in communities. We also provide personalised part-time and full-time alternative education environments for children and young people to overcome barriers to engagement and learning.

**What we do**:
At LPW, we provide safe, emotionally supportive and enriching spaces where children and young people can: build trusted and trauma-informed relationships; grow in confidence and independence; overcome challenges; and have ownership of their learning and future.

**LPW values**
- **Inclusive**: We celebrate and embrace diversity and ensure everyone is seen, heard and valued.
- **Collaborative**: We work in partnerships alongside children, young people, families, communities and other professionals to achieve success.
- **Innovative**:We are bold and creative in our approach to inspire confidence, independence and free-thinking.
- **Compassionate**: We are trauma-informed - offering safe, emotionally available spaces for children and young people to learn and thrive.
- **Brave**:We foster strength and perseverance, even in the face of challenges and diversity.

**Job Purpose**
- To engage Children & young people (CYP) from a range of different communities in learning.
- Work with partners, managers, other colleagues and CYP to shape direct delivery across the organisation.
- Address both equality and access issues in education, and disengagement in the traditional classroom setting, by creating low-stress, supportive, and playful learning environments for young people who have experienced disadvantage.
- To reframe learning so that it is meaningful for each individual that you work with.

**In this role, your primary areas of responsibility will be**:

- Creating trauma informed learning environments for students with multiples ACEs.
- Designing creative learning sessions for the students, responding to their interests and aspirations.
- Providing mock examinations or tests to prepare students for real exams, where relevant.
- Providing support for students during their examinations, where relevant.
- Communicating with parents/guardians about trouble areas or any issues that require attention.
- Keeping up to date on the current curriculum and latest teaching trends.
- Any other duties that may be required from time to time.

**What you will bring to this role**:

- Hold a full category B manual licence.

Awareness, knowledge and understanding of:

- Equality and access issues young people may have faced in mainstream educational settings.
- Issues faced by students at risk of permanent exclusion.
- Bristol’s diverse communities.
- The effect of social and economic disadvantage on CYP.
- Issues that affect vulnerable CYP.
- Best practice in safeguarding CYP from harm.
- Other support agencies within Bristol and multi-agency processes of support for CYP.
- Best practice in promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality of opportunity.
- Adapting learning for young people with neurodivergent learning needs.
- Have nuanced understanding of what meaningful learning can look like for different students.

Experience of:

- Working within a similar role either paid or voluntary.
- Using a variety of information technology.
- Engaging and communicating effectively with a wide range of CYP on a 1:1 basis and in groups to secure positive outcomes.
- Working with partners, with families and within communities to secure outcomes for CYP.
- Safeguarding CYP from harm.
- Promoting equality of opportunity and challenging discrimination.

The skills and ability to:

- Support young people to develop skills to aid self-regulation.
- Contribute to team targets and evaluate outcomes.
- Effectively deal with challenging and confrontational situations.
- Engage and communicate effectively with CYP, parents, carers, teachers, managers, and other professionals.
- Problem-solve, innovate, plan, organise, overcome barriers, and implement solutions effectively.
- Be flexible in approach to working locations, enabling travel around Bristol.
- Be culturally competent and able to challenge inequality.
- Work effectively with CYP from a diverse range of backgrounds.
- Work effectively - independently, in a team situation and on own initiative.
- Plan and schedule sessions and activities which motivate students to engage in learning.
- Supervise students and be a role model.

Your attitude means you will have:

- Commitment to LPW vision and values.
- Commitment to developing own learning, knowledge, and skills.
- Ability to work