Achievement Mentor

37 hours per week, 41 weeks per year

Firth Park Academy is proud to be a Good school and determined to become an Outstanding school. We are a wonderfully diverse family of students and staff where our vision is to inspire all students to lead remarkable lives. We offer the widest range of extra-curricular enrichment possible to ensure our students are rich in knowledge and character. We want students to achieve academic excellence, develop strength of character and above all else, be happy.  Our school is:

A stronger-than-ever ‘Good’ school as rated by Ofsted (February 2019).     

Home of an Extended School Day for Years 7 and 11 to ensure the broadest possible curriculum of academic learning and extra-curricular experiences     

Featured on CBBC’s series Our School 7 is currently on iPlayer, which highlights the remarkable spirit of our Year 7 and 8 students and staff in the 2020-21 school year, please see link.     

A richly diverse community with students speaking more than 30 home languages.     

A leading school in our trust – Academies Enterprise Trust – the largest trust in the UK with more career development opportunities than any other.

We love to help our students learn and value the staff who help them do so, thanks to:

• A real ethos of family where we all value strong positive relationships and support each other.
• An outstanding professional development programme for staff at all stages of their career.

If you have a passion for education, are able to help support opportunities for learning and progress whether inside or out come rain, hail or shine and love working as part of a team, you could be the person we are looking for!

About the Achieve team

Achieve are an enthusiastic and impactful team, who provide a variety of support for underachieving students within the school, including:

• Mentoring programme to empower students to be remarkable in our three key strands: Academic, Self and Pathways
• Tutoring programme to accelerate students’ academic progress
• Targeted in-class support and withdrawing students from lessons for small group work
• Aspiration-raising experiences for all students, to inspire them for a remarkable future

We want to expand our Achieve team to include another Mentor. This role would be well suited to a graduate who is looking to gain experience in education. 

The successful candidate will:

• Mentor a caseload of underachieving students.
• Deliver 1:1 and small group tuition, supporting students with work from a range of school subjects, including subjects outside your specialism. Training will be provided but there is a need to be adaptable and versatile.
• Build strong partnerships with colleagues, parents/carers and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Achieve Team Leader, Careers Leader and other Mentors, working as a team towards shared goals.

Come and visit us to meet the team of students and staff who are making Firth Park Academy one of the best schools in our city:

• Informal enquiries are welcome - please contact our Principal Dean Jones at djones@firthparkacademy.org  
• Join our team and build a wonderful career in a school you are passionate about with students you love to help learn.
• Check out the ‘career opportunity’ section on our website (see link) to find out more.

This is a fixed-term position that is due to commence as soon as possible.

Closing date: Friday 17th February 2023 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.  All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty.

Academies Enterprise Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a robust, fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. 

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AET is recruiting for Teacher Training placements.  Please visit our website https://sites.google.com/aetschools.org/itt/ for further details.