Physical and Mental Health Mentor

Billesley Primary School; Yardley Wood; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Billesley Primary School in the United Kingdom is seeking a dedicated role focused on promoting health and wellbeing and supporting pupils and staff across the school. You will work in partnership with the leadership team to implement the school’s vision, help improve attendance, and mentor pupils to foster positive learning behaviours.

The role emphasises warmth, sensitivity and reflective practice, with flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and ideas, contributing to the school

Qualifications

• Understand how curriculum relates to social and emotional learning and student achievement.
• Show teamwork contributes to school improvement.
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively with colleagues.
• Maintain positive relationships with parents, carers, teachers, and leaders through regular communication.
• Promote equal opportunities and practical responsibility across the school.

Responsibilities

• Support Pupils and Staff by motivating and developing skills and knowledge through effective communication and collaboration.
• Use evidence-informed practice to support emotional resilience in and outside the classroom.
• Plan and support a range of extracurricular learning opportunities.
• Contribute to key fundraising events.
• Identify areas of strength and improvement with awareness of school policies and practices.
• Ensure systems implemented are fair, transparent and promote pupil well-being.

Skills

Excellent communication

Relationship building

Mentoring

Teamwork

Flexibility

Job description

Join our team

Are you an individual who understands the importance of health and wellbeing, and how these contribute to wider success? Can you promote physical and mental wellbeing and positive learning behaviours across the school; working in partnership with existing staff to meet the needs of our pupils.

Billesley Primary School is committed to school improvement within the Elliot Foundation Multi-Academy Trust. Therefore, there may be opportunities to work alongside other schools within the Trust and wider educational system, including training and sharing of best practices.

‘The school has high expectations for academic achievement, behaviour and pupils’ wider development. Pupils live up to these expectations, and most achieve well. They are terrific ambassadors for their school. They embody the school’s values of ‘inspire, create and achieve’. Ofsted 2025

You will

• Be passionate about supporting children across the school

• Passionate about evidence-based practice.

• Display warmth, care, and sensitivity in dealing with children.

• Open-minded, self-evaluative and adaptable to changing circumstances and new ideas.

• Be a reflective practitioner.

• Ability to work flexibly.

• Insight into what is important in our school.

• Brings personal interests and enthusiasm to the school community.

Main Purpose of Job

• Support the Leadership Team in implementing the vision of the school.

• Improve attendance through hands-on approaches, including engaging with families, pupils and the wider system

• To secure the very best standards of social and emotional mental health across the school through mentoring and in - class support

• Prioritise the importance of good physical and mental health and positive learning behaviours for pupils

• Be responsive to the needs of pupils

Main Responsibilities

Support for the Pupils and Staff

• Support an ethos in which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge through effective communication and collaboration

• Use evidence-informed practice to support and develop emotional resilience in and outside the classroom.

• Plan and support a range of extracurricular learning opportunities.

• Contribute towards key fundraising events.

• Contribute to identifying key areas of strength and improvement with detailed

• knowledge of the school's day-to-day policies and working practices.

• Ensure that any systems implemented are fair and transparent, and promote the well-being of children

Knowledge and Understanding

• Understand the relationship between the curriculum, social and emotional learning and educational achievements

• Show an understanding of how teamwork contributes to school improvement.

• Work cooperatively and collaboratively with colleagues

• Be committed to developing and maintaining positive relationships with all stakeholders: parents/ carers, teachers, the Pastoral Team and the Senior Leadership Team through regular communication

• Be committed to, and show evidence of, the promotion of equal opportunities and acceptance of responsibility for its practical applications

Skills

• Develop and maintain good relationships with all members of the school community.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Liaise with staff to identify learners who would benefit from mentoring.

• Discuss and help decide how identified needs will be addressed.

• Implement strategies and support learners in self-esteem and confidence-building activities

• Drive, energy and enthusiasm

• Ability to challenge and support colleagues

• Knowledge of teaching and the ability to design courses

• Willingness to be accountable for one's own and school decisions.

Support for the School

• To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to safeguarding and child protection, health and safety, security and confidentiality, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person

• To contribute to overall ethos/work/aims of the school

• To attend and participate in regular meetings, and in training and other activities as required

• To assist in the general care of the school environment

• To assist with children at the beginning and end of the day and in the playground as required

• To undertake broadly similar duties commensurate with the level of the post as required by the

Personal Qualities

• Passionate about evidence-based practice.

• Displays warmth, care, and sensitivity in dealing with children.

• Open-minded, self-evaluative and adaptable to changing circumstances and new ideas.

• Be a reflective practitioner.

• Ability to work flexibly.

• Insight into what is important in our school.

• Brings personal interests and enthusiasm to the school community.