Learning Mentor

Learning Mentor 

Grade 6 (Actual Starting Salary £24,253)

Permanent 

37 hours per week/41 weeks

The Trustees of Steel City Schools Partnership are looking to recruit a number of Learning Mentors for Fox Hill Primary and Lound Infant & Juniors.

The focus of the role is:

• Provide a complementary service that enhances existing provision in order to support learning, participation and encourage social inclusion
• Develop and maintain effective and supportive mentoring relationships with children and young people and those engaged with them
• Work within an extended range of networks and partnerships to broker support and learning opportunities and improve the quality of services to children and young people
• Undertake the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

The successful applicant must have the ability to work as an effective team member, be well organised, and have the ability to communicate with children and adults in a constructive and effective way.

Flexibility in working with all age groups, and the ability to form excellent working relationships with pupils and staff is essential.

Steel City Schools Partnership has been established to ensure a local, primary led partnership of schools with an ambition to work closely with other Academies and schools.

The “To provide a first class, innovative education for all” philosophy drives policy, practice and governance in order to achieve the Trust aims, which are to provide a high quality learning and cultural environment that inspires and motivates children, staff and the wider community to engage in education and learning.

Fox Hill is a successful school (Ofsted Good - July 2019) in the north of Sheffield serving predominantly the Fox Hill estate. The school has approximately 57% of the cohort deemed disadvantaged pupils and also hosts an Integrated Resource base for 24 pupils with ‘complex and multiple’ special educational needs. The school was rehoused in a new building in 2015.

Fox Hill works closely with the local secondary school and is a targeted English Hub (Whiston Worrygoose) network school for early reading and phonics.

Operating on 2 sites, Lound Infant and Lound Junior, formally Lound Academy Trust, are the most recent schools to have joined SCSP in September 2021. Both schools are Good (Infant May 2017 and Junior July 2017) and serve the Burncross / Chapeltown area. Lound works closely with the other SCSP and locality schools in the north of the city as well as with its feeder secondary Ecclesfield.

Visits to school are encouraged please contact the office at:

Fox Hill Primary - 0114 231 3469

Lound Infant & Junior School - 0114 246 2181 (Option 2) - Ask for Sam McCarthy

Please return completed applications to: jobs@steel-city-schools-partnership.org.uk

Closing Date: 13 July 2022

Interviews: To Be confirmed 

We expect the successful candidate to work within our collaborative spirit and ethos, by building on the successes of the individual schools by working in conjunction with others to raise standards and enhance the outcomes for the pupils, families and communities we serve.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

We value our diverse workforce and aim to work together to make the most of our differences. We welcome applications from everyone. Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.