STUDENT MENTOR

John Ruskin College; Redhill; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension scheme

Generous holiday package

Free onsite parking

Fully equipped gym

Discounted Spa & Salon treatments

Job summary

John Ruskin College is seeking a Student Support Mentor to engage with students across East Surrey College and Croydon campuses, ensuring safe, welcoming spaces and supporting attendance and wellbeing. You will work with staff to identify students at risk and provide targeted mentoring to improve student experience.

The role focuses on helping young people build resilience, develop new skills and action plans to achieve learning potential, with term-time hours on Monday and Friday, 8:45 am to

Qualifications

• Knowledge of KCSiE (Keeping Children Safe in Education)
• Knowledge and understanding of the Prevent Duty
• Experience of working with young people who may present with challenging behaviour and using de-escalation techniques and professionally resolving conflict
• Awareness of the issues impacting learners in the current climate

Responsibilities

• Engage with students around campus to maintain safe, welcoming spaces
• Identify and support students at risk through targeted mentoring interventions
• Collaborate with staff to promote attendance, behaviour, and wellbeing
• Support students to develop action plans, resilience and new skills

Skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Prevent Duty knowledge

De-escalation techniques

Behaviour support awareness

Job description

Student Mentor

Job Type: Support

Job Category: Youth Engagement

Employment Basis: Established (salaried)

Location: John Ruskin College - Croydon, East Surrey College - Redhill

Salary Range: £27,213.23 per annum (Term-time only plus 3 weeks, 38 weeks in total)

Closing Date: 31/10/2026

Documents

• 3._OSC_Corporation_Competency_Framework.pdf (PDF, 497.72kb)
• Introduction from the Principal.pdf (PDF, 156.25kb)
• Student Mentor JD & PS.pdf (PDF, 169.57kb)

Student Support Mentor

College location: East Surrey College / John Ruskin College

Salary: £27,213.23 per annum (Term-time only plus 3 weeks, 38 weeks in total)

Hours: Monday and Friday - 8:45 am to 5:00 pm

You'll be playing a key role in engaging and interacting with students around the campus, ensuring social spaces, corridors and communal areas are safe and welcoming, and that students maintain good standards of behaviour. You will work collaboratively with staff across the college to identify and support students at risk through targeted mentoring interventions.

You will be supporting young people to make positive changes in their lives, helping them to develop action plans to build resilience, develop new skills and achieve their learning potential, while contributing to enrichment and engagement activities and improving the student attendance and experience.

The Successful Candidate Must Have

• Knowledge of KCSiE (Keeping Children Safe in Education)
• Knowledge and understanding of the Prevent Duty
• Experience of working with young people who may present with challenging behaviour and using de-escalation techniques and professionally resolving conflict
• Awareness of the issues impacting learners in the current climate

Please refer to the attached JD & PS document for the full list of qualifications, knowledge and experience required for this role.

Note: This is a term-time only plus 3 weeks role.

Interviews are expected to be held from 20th August onwards.

• In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such as an excellent pension scheme, generous holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.