Learning Mentor - CS11817
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £23,493 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leamington Spa, Warwickshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Warwick College Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | CS11817 |
Summary
This role is based in the UK and will be working on site in our UK based College.
This is a term time only post and is pro rata. The salary you will be receiving is £17,936.61 per annum. For any roles that start part way through the academic year, the annual salary will be pro rata to the remaining months.
This role also involves an element of Personal Intimate Care, which adds an uplift of £5 per hour.
BACKGROUND TO THE POST
The role of the Learning Mentor is to ensure that all our students with SEND reach their potential. The main purpose of this Learning Mentor post is to work with students with SEND within their learning programme and help them towards achieving independence.
The Learning Mentor’s time will be spent with identified students in the classroom/workshop/practical at Level 1 and on a mentoring basis with students at higher levels of study where the student has an EHCP. There will be a requirement to undertake administrative tasks relating to recording student progress and supporting student retention and achievement. This role will have a requirement to perform intimate, personal care in order to support specific student needs.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
● To provide personal and or intimate care for students as and when required, including toileting.
● To provide support in-class, or mentoring support outside the classroom as directed by the SEN Team Leader.
● To assist the class lecturer with the preparation of materials or activities for named student’s use.
● To actively promote and support independent learning.
● To be a key worker for a number of designated students who have EHCPs and support the SEN Team Leader in the EHCP annual review process.
● To work closely with the personal tutor/Personal Learning Adviser to ensure that individual student targets are being monitored and reviewed.
● With knowledge/permission of personal tutor/ Personal Learning Adviser/SEN Team Leader/Specialist Support Lead, make contact with parents, either by telephone or in writing where appropriate.
● To act as a trouble-shooter and work with the students to ensure they meet deadlines and catch-up on any missed work.
● To attend Academy and Inclusion Team meetings.
● To undertake training and development as required. This will include College core training and the departmental mandatory Team Teach training.
● To accompany and support students during work experience placements, and/or trips, if appropriate.
● Work collaboratively with College staff to produce Individual Risk Assessment, Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans, and Medical Protocols and support the completion of exam access arrangements.
● To undertake administrative duties, which will include keeping their own records, completing ProMonitor records, updating tutors with student progress reports and completing regular student support/progress reviews.
In order to support during busy exam periods, you may be asked to undertake exam invigilator duties. The College will provide training.
The list of duties is not exhaustive but outlines the main features of the post at appointment and may vary as the job evolves without affecting the nature of the duties or the responsibility level.
Duties and Responsibilities - Personal Intimate Care
• To provide personal intimate care as outlined in the Personal Care Plan and or medical protocol.
• To deliver the care in a professional, respectful way and at all times adhering to the Personal and Intimate Care Policy and associated procedure when delivering personal intimate care.
• The member of staff agrees to undertake mandatory training related to the delivery of Personal Care for students and manual handling, and to attend refresher training annually.
• To report any concerns to the Head of Department (?) and complete associated paperwork and documents.
Personal intimate care is a term used to describe activities involved in meeting the personal care needs of a child or vulnerable adult. It includes providing care which requires direct or indirect contact with, or exposure of, private parts of the body, such as:
• Changing underwear, continence pads or sanitary wear
• Helping use the toilet
• Bathing, showering, washing or wiping
• Providing some forms of specialist medical care (such as inserting suppositories or pessaries).
It can also involve other forms of physical care including:
• Feeding
• Changing clothing
• Applying or administering external or oral medication
• Hair care
• Washing non-intimate body parts
• Prompting a student to go to the toilet.
Offers of Work
For the successful candidate a conditional offer of work will be made. Our offer of work will be conditional upon a number of mandatory pre-employment checks, to include but not limited to: DBS, Barred List check, right to work check, internet search, TRA check (academic posts).
Essential Attainments:
● Demonstrate English and Maths skills equivalent to level 2.
● Working knowledge of information technology such as e-mail, the internet and other software applications.
● Previous experience of supporting young people with a learning difficulty and/or disability and assisting with personal care.
● Previous experience of providing personal care to young people
This is a term time only post and is pro rata. The salary you will be receiving is £17,936.61 per annum. For any roles that start part way through the academic year, the annual salary will be pro rata to the remaining months.
This role also involves an element of Personal Intimate Care, which adds an uplift of £5 per hour.
BACKGROUND TO THE POST
The role of the Learning Mentor is to ensure that all our students with SEND reach their potential. The main purpose of this Learning Mentor post is to work with students with SEND within their learning programme and help them towards achieving independence.
The Learning Mentor’s time will be spent with identified students in the classroom/workshop/practical at Level 1 and on a mentoring basis with students at higher levels of study where the student has an EHCP. There will be a requirement to undertake administrative tasks relating to recording student progress and supporting student retention and achievement. This role will have a requirement to perform intimate, personal care in order to support specific student needs.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
● To provide personal and or intimate care for students as and when required, including toileting.
● To provide support in-class, or mentoring support outside the classroom as directed by the SEN Team Leader.
● To assist the class lecturer with the preparation of materials or activities for named student’s use.
● To actively promote and support independent learning.
● To be a key worker for a number of designated students who have EHCPs and support the SEN Team Leader in the EHCP annual review process.
● To work closely with the personal tutor/Personal Learning Adviser to ensure that individual student targets are being monitored and reviewed.
● With knowledge/permission of personal tutor/ Personal Learning Adviser/SEN Team Leader/Specialist Support Lead, make contact with parents, either by telephone or in writing where appropriate.
● To act as a trouble-shooter and work with the students to ensure they meet deadlines and catch-up on any missed work.
● To attend Academy and Inclusion Team meetings.
● To undertake training and development as required. This will include College core training and the departmental mandatory Team Teach training.
● To accompany and support students during work experience placements, and/or trips, if appropriate.
● Work collaboratively with College staff to produce Individual Risk Assessment, Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans, and Medical Protocols and support the completion of exam access arrangements.
● To undertake administrative duties, which will include keeping their own records, completing ProMonitor records, updating tutors with student progress reports and completing regular student support/progress reviews.
In order to support during busy exam periods, you may be asked to undertake exam invigilator duties. The College will provide training.
The list of duties is not exhaustive but outlines the main features of the post at appointment and may vary as the job evolves without affecting the nature of the duties or the responsibility level.
Duties and Responsibilities - Personal Intimate Care
• To provide personal intimate care as outlined in the Personal Care Plan and or medical protocol.
• To deliver the care in a professional, respectful way and at all times adhering to the Personal and Intimate Care Policy and associated procedure when delivering personal intimate care.
• The member of staff agrees to undertake mandatory training related to the delivery of Personal Care for students and manual handling, and to attend refresher training annually.
• To report any concerns to the Head of Department (?) and complete associated paperwork and documents.
Personal intimate care is a term used to describe activities involved in meeting the personal care needs of a child or vulnerable adult. It includes providing care which requires direct or indirect contact with, or exposure of, private parts of the body, such as:
• Changing underwear, continence pads or sanitary wear
• Helping use the toilet
• Bathing, showering, washing or wiping
• Providing some forms of specialist medical care (such as inserting suppositories or pessaries).
It can also involve other forms of physical care including:
• Feeding
• Changing clothing
• Applying or administering external or oral medication
• Hair care
• Washing non-intimate body parts
• Prompting a student to go to the toilet.
Offers of Work
For the successful candidate a conditional offer of work will be made. Our offer of work will be conditional upon a number of mandatory pre-employment checks, to include but not limited to: DBS, Barred List check, right to work check, internet search, TRA check (academic posts).
Essential Attainments:
● Demonstrate English and Maths skills equivalent to level 2.
● Working knowledge of information technology such as e-mail, the internet and other software applications.
● Previous experience of supporting young people with a learning difficulty and/or disability and assisting with personal care.
● Previous experience of providing personal care to young people