Learning and Behaviour Mentor

Lord Grey Academy; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading academy in Milton Keynes is seeking a dedicated Learning and Behaviour Mentor to support students facing challenges in their learning. This role involves delivering targeted interventions, fostering positive relationships, and working closely with the Inclusive Learning team to promote student progress. The successful candidate will contribute to a supportive educational environment and play a key role in enhancing student well-being.

Benefits

Continuous Professional Development

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Specsavers eyecare voucher

Free Flu vaccine

Qualifications

• Ability to organise interventions for students.
• Experience with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
• Competent in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.

Responsibilities

• Organise and deliver intervention work for identified students.
• Support the Inclusive Learning team regarding behaviour.
• Liaise with faculties to assist in coursework and revision.

Skills

Relationship Building

Calm Communication

Data Analysis

Education

Relevant qualification in education or child development

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Suite

Job description

LEARNING AND BEHAVIOUR MENTOR

Hours of Work: 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday – Thursday, 8.30am – 4.00pm Friday

37 hours per week

39 weeks per year – Term time plus training days

Tove Learning Trust Band F:£25,183 - £25,584

Actual annual starting salary:£21,661 per annum

This is a non-teaching role.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dedicated Learning and Behaviour Mentor to start in September 2025.There are four main components to this role:

• to organise and carry out intervention work with identified individual students or subsets of students who are not making the expected level of progress in school;
• to carry out and deliver intervention work with students who have a range of difficulties including those with social, emotional and mental health needs ;
• to help and support the Inclusive Learning team with regards to student behaviour and progress;
• to offer cover in our Learning Support Centre, ensuring a calm but firm atmosphere prevails.

The successful candidate will be able to form positive relationships with students of all ages and have a calm, purposeful, approachable and friendly manner, and be able to encourage good behaviour through a pleasant but firm manner.

The role will involve basic data analysis to present information to students and parents if required.There will be liaison with faculties regarding coursework or revision work to form part of the intervention.

The successful candidate will be competent in the use of Microsoft Office/Google Suite applications, be well organised, able to multitask and prioritise.

A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website:https://www.lordgrey.org.uk/vacancies/

Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link.Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet.Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?

Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to [e-mail] by 9am on Monday 23rd June 2025. Interviews to be held on Friday 27th June

Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.

Tove Learning Trust

Tove Learning Trust (TLT) is a highly successful multi-academy Trust with primary, secondary and alternative provision schools across the West Midlands, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. We are a cross phase trust providing a high-quality education for over 11,500 children between the ages of 4 and 18. Within our family of schools we have four primaries, nine secondaries and two alternative provision schools.

As an employer of choice, we recognise every colleague is an individual, we value diversity, and work as a team to remove barriers to equity. We know that when you are ‘the best you’, whatever your role is with the Trust, you will transform students’ lives.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that all children achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes.

We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where children thrive on success.

You will have access to a team of school improvement directors specialising in Maths, English, Science,

Humanities, EYFS and SEND & Inclusion. Our outcomes in the vast majority of our schools exceed national expectations and many of our schools are rated Good or better by OFSTED.

Employee Benefits:

• Teacher & support staff pension schemes
• Continuous Professional development (CPD)
• Training School Alliance
• Networking opportunities
• Specsavers eyecare voucher
• Free Flu vaccine
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Medicash - Health Cash Plan:
• 24/7 GP Appointments & prescription services
• Dental treatment
• Optical care
• Physiotherapy
• Skinvision - skin health tracker
• A range of essential healthcare expenses
• Exclusive discounts on shopping & travel

The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.