Alternative Provision Mentor

Salary: NJC Scale Pt 28-30: Starting Point 28 - £33,292pa actual salary  

Responsible to: Head of Alternative Provision   

Contract: 37 hours per week 41 weeks per year (term time plus 2 additional weeks spread over the year including summer school). Hours to be arranged with Line Manager. Permanent.

Framework: To work within the NJC current pay and conditions, current legislation and the policies of the school.

Murray Park School is a rewarding and professionally stimulating place to work. Over the last 3 years we have undergone a journey of rapid improvement; moving from a Requires Improvement Ofsted grading to Good in September 2022, along with a much improved Progress 8 score, as well as now being over-subscribed. Never complacent, we are now on our next stage of development and seek high-quality staff to enable this. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join Murray Park School. The school seeks to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and committed mentor who will be based across our Alternative Provision units. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and an excellent practitioner who is committed to student development and success. The successful candidate will join a hardworking; forward thinking and supportive Alternative Provision department at an exciting time.

The person appointed will have:

•A passion for ensuring the best outcomes for all students, including those who are part of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. 

•Excellent pedagogical knowledge. 

•Relentlessly high standards and expectations of all students. 

•A commitment to continuous improvement of their own practice, irrelevant of job role, career stage or position. 

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Staff at Murray Park School benefit from: 

•Flexible working for all staff. 

•A Senior Leadership Team who prioritise staff well-being and consider this when launching any new systems or pedagogical approaches. 

•A robust and centralised behaviour system, including an internal Alternative Provision, to ensure learning in our classrooms is disruption free. 

•A whole-school CPD package which includes the sharing of recent research and best-practice. 

•An approach to pedagogy which ensures professionals deliver the highest-quality lessons and interventions possible, whilst still allowing the freedom to maintain autonomy. 

How to Apply

An application pack can be downloaded

from the school website at

http://murraypark.derby.sch.uk/key-information/vacancies or apply via TES

Online.