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Education and Learning Mentor

Gloucester

Gloucester Family Care’s Alternative Provision service has grown exponentially this past academic year, we are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to be part of this exciting journey and join our team. We are passionate about making education engaging, tailored and accessible to all children and young people. We believe that they should be provided the opportunity to develop, thrive and fulfil their potential.

We believe that all our children and young people should feel a constant presence from their GFC family, feel they are always at the forefront of our minds, and they belong not just within their GFC family, but also as part of the wider community around them. We believe our team should be willing to build positive, respectful relationships with students, to encourage high self-esteem and a sense of self-worth and provide a strong adult role model with an inclusive, consistent and curious approach.

We are looking for individuals who are keen to plan and implement engaging programmes of learning and produce appropriate teaching materials and resources based on individual need and ability to support progress within our curriculum.

You will have an additional responsibility to support your wider team, with a range of duties and be a positive role model. You will be expected have good communication, organisational and IT skills to bring together GFC values, professional meetings and supportive information to children, young people and your wider team.

As a GFC family, we value individuals and the diversity this brings, you must be able to navigate through being a supportive member of this team. You will be expected to attend and contribute to team development meetings and supervisions. Teamwork is key in everything that we do, we know that there can be some days that are harder than others in our line of work, so people are at the heart of every decision we make. We not only offer staff regular professional supervisions and mentoring with their senior team, but we also invest in regular individual and group reflective supervisions with an external mental health professional. You will be expected to engage in all aspects of this practice.

For the role of full time, permanent Education and Learning Mentor you will work 37.5 hours per week, Term Time only.

Our work environment includes:

• Term Time working
• Growth opportunities
• Casual work attire
• Relaxed atmosphere
• Private Medical Insurance after one year

You will be expected to develop and enhance good working practice for yourself and consistently promote GFC's values, implement policies and ensure safeguarding children and young people is central to all practice.

You will be expected to attend Training and Development days in the last week of August after the Summer Bank Holiday (four days) We will also utilise five inset days during Term Time for staff development and planning.

You will be offered the opportunity to complete overtime and sleep shifts within other services we provide for children and young people.

Essential Skills

• Experience working in an educational setting.
• Awareness of Safeguarding and Protection procedures and regulations.
• Awareness of Fire Regulations and Health and Safety Regulations.
• Have a full UK Driving Licence with business insurance on your vehicle.
• Flexibility to work as part of a supportive team
• Promote GFC culture and enhance service development.
• Willingness to engage in GFC’s therapeutic support programme and embed our therapeutic policy.

Desirable Skills

• Educational based qualifications, Teaching Assistant / QTS / Further qualification to support the role
• The confidence and sensitivity to support students who have experienced a range of difficulties, with curiosity, empathy and openness
• Ability to employ a range of skills and strategies to create an effective and engaging learning environment to motivate reluctant students
• Experience of teaching vulnerable young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties, neurodiversity or complex special educational needs in an educational setting.

GFC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosures Barring Service clearance at enhanced level. We are committed to ensuring all recruitment is undertaken fairly, effectively, safely and in accordance with legislation. The information below provides pre-employment screening guidance for candidates applying for this job.

Pre-Employment Checks appropriate to this Job Profile:

• Identity
• References which cover the past five years of employment
• Qualifications
• Self-disclosure
• Enhanced DBS Check
• Right to Work in the UK
• A full employment history

Please click on Apply Now and email your CV and covering letter.

Salary: Your salary will be £26,000.00 (pro-rata to reflect Term Time only)

Hours Per Week: 37.5

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