Attendance Mentors

Description:

Thousands of children are missing out onvital hours of schooling due to persistent absenteeism. Regular school attendance is important for learning as well as for a child’s well-being, mental health, and long-term development.  

We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a passion to improve outcomes for children and young people who need it most. You will provide bespoke, targeted,and responsive support for persistent and severely absent pupils in our client schools.  

We work with more than 6,000 schools across England and Wales and are searching for multiple candidates in our branch locations for full and part-time opportunities.  

Benefits 

Make a real difference to the lives of children and young people. 

Be part of a vital support system to improve their prospects. 

Work flexibly around existing commitments – full and part-time opportunities available. 

Opportunities local to you – meaning low or no travel costs. 

Free and heavily subsidised CPD training to improve your career options. 

Pay from £100 per day. 

Your Experience 

Experience of working in education, social care, community/youth work, military or other sectors with transferable skills and knowledge 

Knowledge of: 

Schooling in the UK 

Pastoral care 

Approaches to working with parents or carers 

How to empower and enablepupils and parents/carers to help themselves 

Having access to transport is desirable but not essential. 

Key Responsibilities: 

To identify, engageand mentor pupils who are severely or persistently absent from school. 

To hold a case load of pupils to engage in mentoring support and to build confidence in learning. 

To encourage and motivate pupils to get back into the classroom and to improve attendance on an ongoing basis. 

To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community-based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families. 

To support the school with other tasks as required e.g., lunchtime cover. 

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.

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