Student Mentor

Role – Student Mentor

Location – South Bristol

Type of Role - Permanent, Term Time and Part Time basis

Hatched Talent Solutions is the Talent Partner for Education 1st, located in South Bristol. Education 1st is driven by the belief that every child and young person deserves equal value and aims to promote equal opportunities and outcomes within its alternative provision services. We are excited to support Education 1st in finding multiple and exceptional Student Mentor to join the team on a Permanent, Term Time and Part Time basis

Their goal is to ensure that each young person referred to Education 1st receives the nurturing and support needed to grow in areas such as:

• Self-Management
• Resilience
• Communication
• Relationship Building
• Emotional Awareness
• Safety and Well-Being

Education 1st provides tailored mentoring and educational support through offsite social and emotional programs, along with classroom-based lessons, helping young people develop the skills necessary to move forward and re-engage in their education.

Purpose of role

As the Student Mentor, you will Support students in achieving their full potential by providing academic, emotional and behavioural support under the direction of the Senior leadership team.

Your responsibilities

• Work with students on a one to one, two to one or small group basis to support their academic and SEMH progress.
• Provide own transport to collect from and drop students home/agreed destination on a daily basis.
• Assist, follow and lead student activities and project based learning on or off-site which are in line with individual student timetables.
• The children we work with can display some challenging behaviours that support staff would need to manage, however full training is given to enable staff to provide the best quality of care and support for the young people including Team Teach training, should a young person require to be held.
• Support workers are expected to take part in on and offsite activities including physical activities with the children, so a decent level of mobility and fitness are required. For example, playing football, basketball, gym work, activity centres, cooking and visiting various places of interest.
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns to the safeguarding team in line with the safeguarding reporting procedure.
• Following all policies and procedures to the letter and to the highest standard
• Promote and reward good behaviour.
• Support each student’s personal targets to make positive progress academically and in line with set SEMH targets.
• Support students whose behaviour is a barrier to their achievement.
• Completing daily reports of the highest standard. Ensuring they are completed within a timely manner and send the reports to a member of the senior leadership team the same working day.
• Uploading daily seesaw entries based on students' individual targets, incorporating PEE (Point, evidence and explain) and uploading them onto seesaw the same working day.
• Promote awareness of, and encourage, student involvement in enrichment activities which aim to improve a young person’s skills and readiness for life.

Data Protection and Safeguarding

• Work within the requirements of Data Protection at all times.
• Understand your responsibilities in relation to Safeguarding and child protection and how to highlight an issue / concerns
• Remain vigilant to ensure all students are protected from potential harm.

General

• The post-holder will be expected to undertake any appropriate training provided by Education 1st to assist them in carrying out any of the above duties.
• The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the protection of children and young people, as appropriate, in accordance with any agreed policies and/or guidelines, reporting any issues or concerns to the safeguarding team.
• The post-holder will be required to promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the workplace. To include ensuring that the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act, COSHH, and all other mandatory regulations are adhered to.

An Enhanced Disclosure with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will be undertaken before an appointment can be confirmed. The successful candidate will be required to disclose all convictions and cautions, including those that are spent; the exception being certain, minor cautions and convictions which are ‘protected’ for the purposes of the ‘Exceptions’ order. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance

Must have criteria

• Full clean driving license with access to your own car
• Passionate about improving the lives of young people
• Adaptable and calm under pressure
• Personable and fun
• Great English communication skills
• Eager to learn new skills and always looking for self-development

What's on offer

• Up to £23,400 for full time, £20,250 term time and £12.00 per hour part time – DOE
• Full training and qualifications
• Pension
• Employee Assistance programme

This job description only contains the main accountabilities relating to the posts and does not describe in detail all of the duties required to carry them out. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the nature and level of the post.

Due to the high level of applications, we may not be able to respond to every application.