Learning Mentor
About This Role
▪ Working with teaching staff in identifying pupils at risk of under-achieving.
▪ Taking responsibility for identified pupils in supporting them to achieve their targets
▪ In consultation with teaching staff, drawing up and implementing an individual action plan for each
student.
▪ Lead on the running of breakfast club
▪ Developing a 1:1 relationship with pupils in order to monitor the pupils’ progress towards agreed goals
▪ Developing a knowledge and appreciation of the range of activities, courses, opportunities, organisation
and individuals that could be drawn upon to provide extra support for pupils.
▪ Maintaining contact with families and carers to foster a positive relationship with school and develop
family support for the pupils.
▪ Being the focal point of contact between various agencies where a multiple agency approach is required
for a targeted student, e.g. ESWS, Social Care and Health, Community Health and Youth Offending
Team, so that the needs of the young person are met in a focused and integrated way.
▪ Using student tracking performance data in identifying and achieving targets.
▪ Working in a variety of ways to support, motivate and challenge pupils to raise levels of achievement.
These may include support in class, 1:1 counselling, helping individuals and groups with work and
developing skills, as well as developing and implementing Individual Action Plans.
▪ Keeping detailed monitoring and progress records and making it available to the Link Learning Mentor
and the designated line manager in school(s) worked in.
▪ This job description allocates duties and responsibilities but does not direct the particular amount of time
to be spent on carrying them out and no part of it may be so construed.
▪ This job description is not necessarily a comprehensive description of the post. It may be reviewed once
a year and it may be subject to modification or amendment at any time after consultation with the post-holder in order to ensure the smooth running of the school.