Learning Mentor
Stoke Damerel Community College
Plymouth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade D
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
Job overview
Stoke Damerel Community College is looking to recruit a Learning Mentor to work with our children and young people of all abilities who have barriers to learning that prevent them from achieving their potential and enjoying their time at school. A barrier to learning is any factor that prevents a child from being in an emotional/physical or psychological state to engage in learning. These barriers can include low self-esteem, separation, loss, anger or behavioural issues.
Your role
- To develop strategies and skills to enable the young person to make positive choices.
- To build resilience with the young person in order to achieve.
- To advise and work with the relevant school staff providing advice and guidance including key teaching staff and pastoral teams.
- To convey, evaluate and promote the views of the young person to the school when necessary including Person Centred Planning and multi agency meetings.
- Decision making on the needs of the young person including signposting and referring to therapeutic services ie; counselling.
Stoke Damerel Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All members of staff at Stoke Damerel Community College must undertake the required employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and an enhanced (DBS) disclosure.
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About Stoke Damerel Community College
- Stoke Damerel Community College
- Somerset Place, Stoke, Plymouth
- Devon
- PL3 4BD
- United Kingdom
Stoke Damerel Community College is located in Plymouth, a vibrant waterfront city in the South West packed full of historical interest, cultural attractions and set in an area of natural beauty.
We are an oversubscribed 11 - 19 secondary school and form part of Greenshaw Learning Trust, a Multi Academy Trust, which is a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice, and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.
Our passion is to support and develop our students to realise their full potential and prepare them for the next journey of their lives. We have high expectations of both staff and students and believe that every student has the right to learn, every teacher has the right to teach and every support member of staff has the right to offer valued support: This creates a disruption free learning environment in which students and staff can flourish, feel safe, respected and valued.
Our ethos supports our vision - Aspire, Achieve, Thrive. Head to our website homepage, or contact us and discover why this is a truly great place to work.
“Stoke Damerel Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake all the required employment checks which include, but is not limited to, the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We welcome visits from all potential applicants. This can be arranged by emailing: hr@sdcc.net.
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