Personal Mentor
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2018/September 2018
- Apply by:
- 19 February 2018
Job overview
To provide 1:1 support to pupils in the Senior School
Surbiton High School is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of supporting schools in their quest to give every child the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.
Key Responsibilities:
• To support pupils in developing strategies to enhance well-being and to develop coping strategies
• To work with pupils who are in need of more support than can currently be provided by tutors and Heads of Year. This may include pupils who:
• have low attendance
• lack of self-confidence, self-esteem or motivation
• are failing to achieve their full potential
• have behavioural or emotional difficulties
• have personal difficulties
• To develop one-to-one mentoring relationships with pupils
• To meet with each pupil for one registration and one 1:1 session per week or more as required
• To develop action plans for pupils and monitor their progress
• To work closely with parents to understand the whole picture of the pupil’s life
• To work closely with teachers, tutors and the Learning Enrichment Team to ensure everyone understands and supports the strategies being used to promote learning and personal development.
• As required, to help pupils re-integrate into School following periods of absence
• To provide support for pupils with eating disorders
• To carry out any such duties as may be reasonably requested
The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:
• Have an understanding of the nature of emotional needs of young women and the skills and habits required to succeed
• Have a strong feeling of empathy towards the pupils
• Good communication and listening skills
• A confident and positive outlook
• A flexible and creative approach to solving problems
• The ability to interact with people and work as part of a team
• High levels of personal and professional integrity and the ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality
• Personal warmth to gain the confidence and trust of pupils, staff and parents
• High standards of personal presence and presentation and attention to detail
• Ability to communicate concisely and sensitively, both orally and in writing, to a variety of audiences
• Commitment to the school ethos of promoting the best in everyone
• A healthy sense of humour
Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email
recruitment@surbitonhigh.com
To Apply
Please apply online by clicking on the following link:
Where support is better shared
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About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Principal
Rebecca Glover
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