Learning Mentor (Shuttleworth)

Location: Shuttleworth College - Old Warden

Benefits: People’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Contract Type: Permanent - Term Time

About the role:

We are currently seeking Learning Mentor to join our Student Services department at The Bedford College group.

As a Learning Mentor, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Working across college to collect and record attendance and punctuality data, following up with learners to monitor improvements.
• Working with learners who are at risk due to welfare issues, undertaking early interventions to provide support and remove barriers in order to improve their learning opportunities.
• Making a significant contribution to driving up College success rates by dramatically improving the attendance and punctuality of those learners.
• Following up attendance and punctuality across all learning areas of the College and reporting to teachers in real time; communicating with learners and parents / carers as required
• Monitoring and mentoring learners to improve their attendance and punctuality and monitoring progress
• Promoting good attendance inside and outside of college using a variety of methods
• Mentoring allocated learners to support their personal, social and academic development and conducting individual motivational interviews with learners as required
• Facilitating sessions that enable ‘at risk’ learners to develop strategies to overcome barriers
• Acting as a role model, critical friend and learning mentor to support learners to overcome barriers to success
• Working with the designated administrator to schedule and organise annual reviews and completing EHCP paperwork in a timely way.
• Ensuring that every EHCP throughout the organisation and partner organisations are regularly reviewed and new outcomes set.
• Supporting the communication needed with external stakeholders such as local authorities, schools, therapists, social services, transport and contractors.
• Producing half-term reports on:
  • Monitoring and mentoring activities associated with their caseload
  • The progress of “at risk learners”
• Working with Teachers and other College staff in order to plan and deliver appropriate one to one support
• Working with other support teams within the College to promote a holistic system of support
• Reporting weekly in one-to-one and/ or group meetings to the Manager,
• Embracing the development opportunities presented to you and seeking out for yourself learning opportunities which will transform your work, so you meet and exceed the role requirements.
• Promoting equality and celebrate diversity, confidently challenging prejudice and discrimination.
• Safeguarding all learners within your responsibility and report any safeguarding concern about a learner to the Safeguarding Team.

About you:

• Hold Math's and English GCSE’s (Grade A – C) or equivalent level 2
• Be willing to work towards Level 2 Safeguarding and Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification if not already held
• Have knowledge and awareness of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Have experience of working in a student support or related role
• Have experience of providing careers advice and guidance or education to young people and/or adults
• Have good verbal and written communication, organisational, interpersonal, and prioritisation skills
• Possess the ability to work effectively with students, including vulnerable students
• Possess the ability to deal with sensitive data confidentially
• Possess the ability to work both alone and within a team
• Possess the ability to travel to all campus locations for meetings, events, training etc.
• Possess the ability to adapt working hours to changing needs in the business when these occur

Interviews to be held: 24 February 2025

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About Bedford College Services (BCS)

BCS is A multi-faceted enterprise that operates across the leisure, hospitality, catering, theatre and facilities hire sectors.

The purpose of BCS is to provide a suite of commercial services to the staff and students of The Bedford College Group and to the wider community.  Always striving to provide the highest quality of product and services and endeavouring to ensure that its supply chain complies with modern day thinking of sustainability, carbon emissions and modern slavery. BCS will bid for external contracts to provide those services, exploiting its management skills and capacity. Additionally BCS works to enrich student and staff experience within the Group through work experience, qualifying courses or apprenticeship, actively engaging within the communities it operates in.

About The Bedford College Group

The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students

The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

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