Learning Mentor
Kinson Academy
Bournemouth
- £15,456 - £16,756 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 5 SCP10-15
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 24 June 2025
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and skilled Learning Mentor to supervise and support our pupils.
The successful candidate will be educated to a high standard or HLTA, have recent whole class teaching experience or proven impact upon children’s progress. You will be willing to engage in continuing your professional development. Candidates should also be passionate and ambitious with a drive and commitment to working with children. You will have a dynamic, exceptional and creative approach to improving the teaching and learning in a way that benefits all children.
This role will include supporting our teaching staff daily, to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum for our young people. Flexibility is key and positive behaviour management is also an important part of the role.
What we have to Offer:
· A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
· A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education Trust.
· All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.
· Strong potential for career progression.
· A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing with a dedicated Wellbeing Champion.
· An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
· AE Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced-price corporate gym membership through BH Live.
· A competitive pension through Teachers’ Pensions or The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff.
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About Kinson Academy
- Kinson Academy
- School Lane, Bournemouth
- Dorset
- BH11 9DG
- United Kingdom
Kinson Academy is a 420 PAN- pupil school which currently has 203 students. Kinson Academy joined Ambitions Academy Trust in 2019 and educates Boys and Girls aged between 4 and 11. Kinson Academy was rated Good by OFSTED in May 2022.
Kinson Academy has the special status of being Bournemouth’s oldest school. It was established in 1836 and moved to its current position in School Lane in 1936. It is very much a community school with many parents and grandparents being able to relate their own memories of the school. We have a lively and involved staff who ensure a broad, balanced and exciting education for every child.
We are fortunate in having an attractive school environment with large grassy areas, as well as hard surface playgrounds that give children large wet and dry weather play areas. We have a garden and outdoor stage in our garden/eco-classroom. Our PSFA (Parents, Staff and Friends Association) fundraise with great success. They have provided many items, including lots of playground, sports and musical equipment.
The school actively encourages links with the local community; visits have included local business people speaking about their particular skills, Kinson Common Wardens, local dance and drama groups, local Police Community Support Officers etc.
Our Vision.
‘High Expectations lead to High Achievers’
We are an outstanding, values-based school at the heart of our community, striving for excellence, enabling our children to achieve their highest potential in all areas of the curriculum.
Our vision is to create a school community where children participate, succeed and are proud of their achievements. We strive to actively promote British values and prepare our children to become role models, thus preparing them for life in modern Britain.
“Everyone is a learner and every experience is a learning opportunity.”
Kinson Academy has three key objectives:
· Ensure all pupils and young peoples’ achievement is their very best.
· Improving schools by outstanding leadership
· Achieving “operational economies” across Ambitions Academies Trust in terms of “value for money” and organisational resilience.
Kinson Academy work on the principal that:
“………… the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers.”
Sir Michael Barber
Our Ethos.
Kinson Academy (KA) demands high expectations for all. In everything KA does we always refer back to our mantra that encapsulates the belief that KA must have outstanding teaching and achievement.
A culture of high expectation leads to the highest achievers as we all thrive to better ourselves. Children and staff are challenged and supported to get the best possible outcomes. Children, with the support of their teacher, set themselves goals and targets which they then challenge themselves to meet.
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