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SalaryHours Per Week: 36.5, Term time only
Contract Type: Permanent
Wylde Green Primary School
Green Lanes
Sutton Coldfield
B73 5JL
Job Start Date: 19 February 2024
Head Teacher: Mrs Donna O’Toole Deputy: Mr Richard Hamilton- Martin
Co- Chairs of Governors: Mr Ben Reaney & Dr Emily Coyne-Umfreville
The Governors of Wylde Green Primary School are delighted to be able to advertise for the post of a Senior Learning Mentor to work in partnership with our current Senior Learning Mentor. You will have a key role within our pastoral team.
We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual who can support our aim of ‘providing a supportive and caring environment, rooted in high quality teaching and learning, grounded by impeccable conduct’ and can exemplify it in their daily practice.
We are proud of our team of professional, focused, positive staff. We look forward to appointing a Senior Learning Mentor who can work with our school community and pastoral team.
We are looking for a Senior Learning Mentor who:
- has experience as a Learning Mentor or similar role within a school
- has experience of working alongside agencies to support children and families
- has high expectations of all children
- is able to identify barriers to learning and plan effective strategies to manage them
- has the ability to enthuse and inspire children
- is committed to improving outcomes for all children
- is able to work as part of a team
- is willing to go the extra mile
- has experience of working with families
Your duties will include pastoral and behavioural support in class and on a one to one basis, being a member of the safeguarding team, providing nurture groups and leading after school activities, you will also lead on pupil attendance on a daily basis. There will also be the opportunity to use your strengths to support learning. You will be working with both children and families to support them to improve well-being and attitudes to learning.
We can offer you:
- a diverse intake of happy, motivated children
- experienced leaders who are highly ambitious, that really care about the children and staff at the school
- supportive colleagues, governors, parents and PFTA
- a successful school committed to improving outcomes for all children
- resources to ensure your effectiveness and success
- a commitment to your professional development
Closing Date: 22 January 2024, midday
Applicants can obtain an application pack which is available via email using our recruitment@wyldegrn.bham.sch.uk address. Candidates may also call at the School Office.
Interviews: Week beginning Monday 29 January, 2024
Visits to school are a requirement of the recruitment process.
Times available: Thursday 11 January at 4.00pm
Monday 15 January at 4.00pm
Tuesday 16 January at 12.30pm
If you are unable to attend, it is essential that you contact the school to arrange to speak to the Head teacher.
Please contact our Office Manager on 0121 373 2691 or email recruitment@wyldegrn.bham.sch.uk to book onto one of these visits.
For further details and an application pack please visit the school website
(If you have not been called for an interview within 28 days of the closing date you can assume you have not been unsuccessful on this occasion.)
Only standard Birmingham City Council application forms will be accepted, we will not read accompanying CVs.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
BCC is a Living Wage employer
Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
