Learning Mentor
Wyke Sixth Form College
Kingston upon Hull
- £10,907 - £23,162 pro rata
- Expired
- Salary:
- SFCA Support Scale Point 6, (£23,162 pro rata, actual £10,907) Pending Pay Award
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 February 2025
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to work at an Ofsted Outstanding sixth form college. Wyke Sixth Form College is recognised for its educational excellence, placed in the top 5% for progress at A level and ranked the second highest provider of students to Oxbridge in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The college’s reputation attracts students from across Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Wyke has grown significantly over the last decade, accommodating 2400 exclusively level three students on a modern £30M university-style campus. At Wyke, we put the student first and all decisions centre around staff working together to meet their best interests. 97% of our current teachers and support staff recommend working here and 98% feel they have been supported to develop in the last year. Come and join the amazing learning culture that creates “The Wyke Experience”.
Working as part of the friendly and experienced Additional Learning Support team, we require a highly motivated Learning Support Mentor, skilled at supporting young people with their studies. The role involves working with students on an individual or small group basis.
The successful candidate will be able to support students to maximise progress on Level 3 programs of study, and also those taking GCSE qualifications in English and Maths. Ideally, candidates will have experience of supporting students for whom English is not their first language. Previous experience working with young people is essential, as is being educated to Level 3 (A-level or equivalent).
We offer a forward-thinking, welcoming college with supportive management and a modern environment. Benefits include a strong programme of staff development and membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme. We are lucky to work with great students who are here to learn and 97% of staff said they would recommend the College as a good place to work in the Autumn 2024 Staff Pulse Survey. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from a diverse range of applicants. We would love our staff ethnicity and cultural profile to closely match the student population we serve.
The College takes safeguarding extremely seriously and a full range of pre-employment checks as set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education including a satisfactory enhanced DBS with barred list check and an online search will be required for this post. All posts at the College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and it is an offence for those barred from working with children to even apply for a role at the College.
For further details and an application form please see below or visit www.wyke.ac.uk/about-wyke/staff-vacancies . If you have any queries about applying for the role or require paper copies of the information, please contact personnel@wyke.ac.uk, or call 01482 346347.
The closing date for received applications is 5p.m. on 28th February 2025.
Interviews will be held on 14th or 17th March 2025.
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About Wyke Sixth Form College
Wyke is a successful and highly ambitious Sixth Form College whose aim is to be the best college in the country. We are an established, popular College with an outstanding reputation in the locality. The college draws students from Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and further afield. The largest and one of the most successful A-level provider in the area, we offer applicants the opportunity to work alongside committed colleagues who have enabled our students to achieve high levels of success. At Wyke we put the student first and all decisions centre around staff working together to meet their best interests.
We currently have over 2000 students and around 200 members of staff. We offer a wide range of A Level courses as well as some highly successful Vocational CTEC and BTEC (VOC) courses, both those equivalent to one, two and three A-levels, and a small number of GCSEs.
Each A-level, GCSE or VOC is allocated 4 x 70 minute lessons and a full time teacher will teach 5 of these ‘blocks’. The teaching day begins at 9a.m. and finishes at 4p.m. On some mornings full staff or faculty briefings are held at 8.45a.m. to keep staff up to date with what is happening around the college and allow a time for them to catch up with each other.
We have an excellent team of staff and their continuing professional development is a priority at Wyke. The approach for this was recently revised so that so that members of staff fall into one of a number of development strands e.g. ‘Aspiring Leaders’, ‘Lead Learners’, ‘Pastoral’, ‘Administrative’. Some development activities take place on one of the four Development Days spread across the year while other sessions are during afternoon workshops or independent activity which happens whenever is convenient for the staff members involved. Our plan is that every member of staff will have an entitlement to a significant amount of development every year and we also offer a system for people to log that development, including any activities undertaken independently.
We offer a welcoming college with supportive management and a strong team atmosphere as well as a modern environment. We are lucky to work with great students who are here to learn and have chosen their subjects so standards of behaviour are high.
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