Learning Mentor (Sports)
Location: Haringey, UK
Salary: SCP 12 – 15, £31,524 - £32,931; £28,595 - £29,872 pro rata
Education Phase: Secondary
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 13th August 2025
Interview Date: 15th August 2025
About our client
Our client is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. They support their schools’ Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of their students.
They believe that education should be stimulating, enriching and enjoyable.
That strong schools achieve this through creating the right environment for high-quality learning having strong, broad and relevant curricula; by having clear boundaries, building excellent relationships and working to close gaps for every learner.
They believe that a great education empowers people, both children and adults, because it offers them genuine choices for their future decisions. And helps them to appreciate the value of learning throughout their lives.
Job Description
Overall Purpose of the Role:
This post is designed to use sport and physical activity as a medium for building strong community engagement at Duke’s Aldridge Academy. Through a combination of breaktime and out of hours activity open to all, and targeted mentoring to support specific students, the postholder will seek to build strong relationships and to help students thrive and succeed at school. Leading the way, the postholder will encourage strong student engagement at unstructured time from staff on duty so that these times become vibrant and fun-filled, contributing significantly to the development of very strong staff-student relationships across the school.
Key Duties:
- Work with senior leaders responsible for duty rotas to encourage a culture of positive interaction with students during supervision of unstructured time. Build a set of physical activities for free time that can be easily overseen by duty staff and support relevant staff to run these safely and with confidence.
- Personally organise and lead football games, exercises and school-level competitions before school, at breaktimes and after school on a weekly basis.
- Arrange these activities to cater for all ability and interest levels so that they embrace the widest number of students.
- Through partnership with external football leagues/clubs, create a talent pipeline from school level activity through to club membership for students with sufficient potential and interest.
- Through football activity, build positive relationships with the widest range of students possible and use football activities to promote school values and rules, along with wider positive personal development support.
- Work with the school pastoral/senior team to identify students in particular need of mentoring and act as key worker/mentor for these students, seeing them individually during the school day and working with them to help them successfully navigate school life, follow policies, attend well and hit their learning targets.
- Work with these students to ensure that participation in football is directly related to success in the rest of school life.
- Monitor the attendance, behaviour and academic performance of mentees. Liaise with their parents where there are concerns as agreed appropriate by their Head of Year. Remove rights to football activity where performance in these areas does not meet the standard required.
- Create opportunities for family support for these students being mentored and bridge any gap between school and home to help all stakeholders to work well together so that students thrive. Connect families needing support to the school’s Community Engagement Manager.
- Work with the school to build their local community work to ensure that the working relationship between the school, families and local community is strong.
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