Unqualified Student Support Mentor

Student Mentors

A Secondary school in Weston-super-Mare are looking to appoint three, full-time Student Mentors to join their collaborative support team as soon as possible. These roles have become available due to additional funding at the school to support students with a range of special education needs (SEN) and/ or social, emotional mental health needs (SEMH) are looking to appoint Students Mentors to join their collaborative student support team. The school pride's itself on not having a generic 'one size fits all' approach, as they provide specific, tailored learning programmes to fit the needs of their students. You will not have any responsibility of planning interventions, as this will be pre-done by the SENDCo at the school. However, there are chances for you to develop yourself and get involved with intervention planning, should this be something you wish to do with.

Whilst you may have experience of working in an education setting already, you may have experience in the following instead:

• Working in the care or mental health sector
• A degree in subjects such as Psychology, Sociology, Counselling etc
• Support or social worker
• Care work
• Youth/ extra-curricular activities/ clubs
• Voluntary work with children or adults with additional learning needs

The school are willing to give individuals an opportunity to work at their school if they have not worked within education before. They value your personality and attitude towards work. If you are passionate about helping others, are reliable, proactive and get on well with others - please still apply.

Start date: ASAP

This particular position is full-time, but if you are seeking a part-time position, please still get in touch!

The successful applicant will:

• Be passionate about helping others
• Have empathy and understanding of issues that young people face today
• Engage and inspire pupils
• Be able to build positive relationships and have the patience to do so
• Deal with situations calmly and sensitively
• Be dedicated, proactive and reliable

About the school:

• The school embraces diversity in both students and staff - they celebrate different religions and cultures where they are willing to learn from one another
• Is modern, with beautiful facilities - making it an enjoyable space to work in each day
• Is Key stage 3 and 4 only, as it does not have a sixth-form
• Are forward thinking in their approach to managing behaviour
• Hold high standards for all students, regardless of their starting points
• Have collaborative teaching and support teams. They ensure that student welfare is at the forefront of everything that they do and work excellently together to achieve this.
• Has a large on-site car park
• Is close to public transport links

In addition, Protocol Education can offer:

• Competitive rates of pay
• FREE continued professional development training (CPD) including Team Teach
• Ongoing honest, friendly, and professional support from our dedicated team of experts
• A £250 bonus if you introduce someone new to Protocol Education, as a thank you!
• Social events
• CV, interview and careers support

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

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We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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