Senior Learning Mentor

Job Description Post title: Senior Learning Mentor Scale: SCP 17 - 23 Hours: 37 per week term-time only Academy: Oasis Academy Watermead Job Purpose: To work with pupils, parents, staff and outside agencies to ensure that the academy fully supports pupils who need help to overcome barriers to learning. Main duties and responsibilities: Management Responsibilities • Manage, set up and support the running of nurture groups. • Managing and coordinating the breakfast clubs and some after school club activities. • Support the monitoring of the implementation of the academy's behaviour policy including, administration of rewards and sanctions. • Ensure effective communication between all staff regarding identified pupils between academy and home. • Communicate daily with the Director of Inclusion and/or other teaching staff regarding concerns relating to pupils. • Maintain up to date records and data bases regarding both individual pupils and the implementation of whole academy behaviour policy. • Ensure effective exchange of written records and information at times of pupil transfer between different phases within academy and at pupil transfer to secondary academy/school. Working With Pupils, Parents And Carers • Work with teaching staff to identify pupils who are at risk of under-achieving. • Use pupil performance tracking data, assessments from teachers, support staff and information from parents to inform the setting of individual pupil targets. • Manage a range of responsibilities regarding identified pupils to support them in achieving their targets, including drawing up and implementing individual action plans and/or Pastoral Support Plans, in consultation with Class Teachers, the Special Educational Needs Coordinator, parents or carers and external agencies. • Respond to identification of barriers to learning by providing access to learning mentor support for all children and young people. • Manage programmes of study support, such as homework club, breakfast club and peer mentoring programmes. • Promote and support family learning programmes and support school council sessions. • Hold regular 1:1 counselling sessions. • Take groups of pupils for 'Anger management' and 'Self Esteem' work and hold daily 'drop in' sessions for pupils. • Develop effective 1:1 relationships with pupils in order to monitor progress towards agreed goals • Manage the overall assessment of children and young people entering or returning to school in order to identify learning mentor needs. • Initiate and maintain contact with families and carers to ensure a positive relationship with the school and develop family support for the pupils. • Be the immediate point of contact within the school for children and families in crises. • Take a leading role in the identification of barriers to learning for individual children and young people and provide them with a range of strategies for overcoming the barriers. • Support the reintegration of pupils who have been subject to fixed term exclusion. • Support pupils and parents or carers during pupils' transition between Key Stages, including secondary transfer and the different phases of their education and learning. • Support the academy with attendance and work with relevant services in relation to pupils where there are serious concerns over attendance or punctuality. Outside Agencies • Support the Director of Inclusion by taking the role of a Deputy Child Protection Officer and being a focal point of contact between various agencies where a multiple agency approach is required for a targeted pupil, e.g. ESWS, Social Care and Health, Community Health and Youth Offending Team, to ensure the needs of the pupil are met in a focused and integrated way. • Have a good knowledge of the range of activities, courses, opportunities, organisation and individuals that could be drawn upon to provide extra support for pupils. • Attend Case Conferences and Core Group Meeting regarding pupils and prepare and submit reports for these where necessary. • Contribute to the identification and sharing of good practice between individuals and partner agencies to enhance mentoring provisions. • Undertake additional or other duties as may be appropriate to achieve the objectives of the post as directed and deemed appropriate by the Principal • Attend meetings within the Service District as required to contribute to the development of policies, procedures, and activities. • The duties may change over time as requirements and circumstances change. • The person in the post may also have to carry out other duties as may be necessary from time to time. General requirements: • Take part in the school's performance management system. • Manage staff identified within the school staffing structure. • Liaise between managers/teaching staff and managed staff. • Hold regular team meetings with the managed staff. • Attend Academy Council meetings when necessary. • Promote a