Behaviour/Learning Mentor
Stanground Academy
Peterborough
- Expired
- Salary:
- £20,661 - £22,658 per annum (£14,255 - £15,633 pro-rata)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 7 September 2017
Job overview
Behaviour/Learning Mentor
Ref: 16-17/STA/078
37 hours a week, term time (39 weeks)
£20,661 - £22,658 per annum (£17,582 - £19,281 pro-rata)
Closing date: 8 September 2017 at noon
The Stanground Academy are looking for an outstanding Learning Mentor to join their team with a focus on behaviour.
The successful Learning Mentor will support Teachers to ensure that pupils engage more effectively with their learning and help increase levels of achievement through appropriate provision. They will also be required to cover lessons across the academy and work with both individual pupils and small groups. This is a great opportunity to combine mentoring skills whilst working in a supportive environment.
The ideal candidates will:
- be able to demonstrate a range of behaviour management strategies
- be well organised and have high expectations of achievement and behaviour
- have the ability to engage constructively with and relate to a wide range of young people from different backgrounds
- possess excellent communication skills, at all levels.
The Stanground Academy, part of the Greenwood Academies Trust (GAT), is situated in Peterborough, one of the UK’s fastest growing cities, and is transforming the life chances of its pupils by ensuring that every child can succeed, despite the challenges they may face.
The academy is part of the Greenwood Academies Trust, which offers great development and progression opportunities, an attractive pension scheme and tax efficient childcare vouchers. You will be required to work term time only so this is reflected in the pro-rata’d salary.
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About Stanground Academy
- Stanground Academy
- Peterborough Road, Stanground, Peterborough
- Cambridgeshire
- PE7 3BY
- United Kingdom
The new Stanground Academy opened on 1 April 2012 and is one of the Greenwood Academies Trust’s Group of Academies, replacing the predecessor Stanground College. The Academy has since undergone a £24M building project and now boasts state of the art” buildings providing academic, vocational and sports facilities for pupils and staff. These include fully-equipped specialist rooms, extensive sports facilities, a dance studio, a theatre and high tech ICT equipment.
The Academy hosts an ambitious and dynamic environment with a shared vision to create an outstanding Academy which the local community both needs and deserves. They aspire to ensure that every student reaches their full potential irrespective of their starting point by providing exceptional learning opportunities both in the classroom and through an extensive programme of extra-curricular activities. The Academy, offers a positive team ethos within a supportive and friendly working environment. The staff are highly motivated, exceedingly hard working and committed to achieving the highest standards in every aspect of their role.
Peterborough is known as the green city of the East of England. It is a city surrounded by beautiful countryside including 2,000 acres of riverside parkland, embracing Ferry Meadows and the Nene Park, with access to a vast range of outdoor leisure activities to enjoy.
The excellent rail and road links to the city ensure that it is easily accessible to the highly desirable towns and beautiful villages in rural areas located close to Peterborough. Peterborough is connected by rail with the nearby towns of Stamford, Grantham, Ely, and Huntingdon along with direct connections to some of the largest cities in the regions such as Cambridge and London. London is just a mere forty-five minutes away by train!
The Greenwood Academies Trust and the Senior Leadership Team at the Academy are passionate about professional development. The CPD programme in place encompasses regular training days, voluntary drop-in workshops, calendared mentoring and opportunities to share outstanding practise. This is strengthened by the Trusts vision to develop its own high quality leaders and opportunities for further career progression are available across the Academy and the Trust.
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