Roots to Excellence - Mentor

TES FE News; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution seeks Roots to Excellence Mentors to provide pastoral support and guidance in a Saturday School setting. Key responsibilities include mentoring vulnerable students and leading sessions on leadership and personal growth. This full-time role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on students' lives, with an emphasis on personal development and safeguarding practices.

Benefits

Free breakfast and lunch

Access to Benenden Health private healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience in pastoral support or mentoring, especially with vulnerable youth.
• Ability to identify and address safeguarding concerns.
• Strong interpersonal skills to provide emotional and wellbeing support.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main pastoral lead during Saturday School sessions.
• Mentor highly vulnerable students, ensuring tailored support.
• Deliver sessions on leadership, culture, and personal development.

Skills

Emotional Support

Mentoring

Safeguarding

Building Confidence

Job description

Job Overview

The Roots to Excellence Mentors will play a key pastoral and leadership role in the Saturday School, ensuring that young people receive the support they need to thrive both academically and personally. They will be the main pastoral support for students on Saturdays, with a particular focus on those who are highly vulnerable or have higher-level needs.

The Mentors will also help develop and lead the Sixth Form mentors, ensuring they are equipped to provide high-quality support and guidance. Additionally, they will take a leading role in the leadership aspect of the programme, delivering sessions that focus on leadership, culture, and personal development.

Key Responsibilities

Pastoral Support & Mentoring

• Act as the main pastoral lead during Saturday School sessions, providing support and guidance to students.
• Personally mentor highly vulnerable students and those with significant needs, ensuring they receive tailored support.
• Work with students to help build their confidence, self-esteem, and resilience.
• Provide emotional and wellbeing support, acting as a trusted adult that students can turn to.
• Identify safeguarding concerns and escalate appropriately, following Roots to Excellence’s safeguarding procedures.
  
  

About Us

LAE Tottenham is a selective 16-19 free school, which offers a rigorous academic curriculum alongside a broad co-curricular programme and exceptional pastoral support enabling students to access high tariff universities. In 2023-24, over 75% of students won places at Russell Group universities, from a cohort in which 50% of students had been eligible for free school meals at secondary school.

The role is advertised on a full-time, permanent basis. This will comprise 40 hours per week, of which Saturday mornings will be a requirement. (LAE Tottenham will consider part-time working requests for the right candidate.) The annual working pattern for this role is term-time plus 4 weeks (currently 41 working weeks).

LAE Tottenham

• Academically selective 6th form, opened in September 2017. Results in the top 3% nationally for attainment and progress.
• Principal Education Sponsor Highgate School and Lead Business Sponsor Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
• Partnered by eight other leading independent schools - Alleyn’s, Chigwell, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’, Harrow, John Lyon, North London Collegiate, Mill Hill and St Dunstan’s College, each offering departmental support, CPD, expertise and shared student experiences.
• Providing first-class support into top class higher education and employment, focused on academically ambitious young people
• Housed in a stunning new state of the art school building linked to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Sunday Times ‘State 6th Form College of the Year 2020-21
• Rated outstanding by OFSTED
  
  

LAE Tottenham offers a range of benefits to all directly-employed members of staff, including free breakfast and lunch and access to Benenden Health private healthcare.

We are actively working to close the gap in areas within the school that are currently underrepresented. To better reflect the diversity of Haringey, we especially encourage applications from within the Black community, as well as other members of our diverse community, to further enrich all aspects of our school.

LAE Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, if shortlisted, you will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Further information is available on the school's website.

The closing date is 4th July 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c. 14th July 2025.

(LAET will invite strong candidates to interview as applications come in throughout the designated advertisement period).