Academic Intervention Mentor - Alternative Provision
| Posting date: | 22 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 December 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S13 9HJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 386d68a7-e091-47b3-beef-e4bd6fa4b925 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
-Excellent interpersonal skills – able to deal effectively with a wide range of people at all levels.
-Flexible and able to adapt to change.
-A pleasant disposition and ability to stay calm under pressure.
-Demonstrate a positive team approach to work.
-Methodical approach to work tasks with key emphasis on accuracy.
-Ability to work on own initiative.
-To have a willingness to participate in the whole school approach to mentoring students and play an active role as directed by line manager.
What the school offers its staff
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in this role at our school. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College is a popular 11-16 comprehensive school located in the South East of Sheffield. Our mission is to provide an exceptional education for every student, every day.
To achieve our mission, we will:
• Provide a broad and balanced curriculum that challenges everyone.
• Provide care and support to break down barriers to learning.
• Improve our students' vocabulary, comprehension and reading skills.
• Demand high levels of progress and achievement from all students.
Here at Handsworth Grange, we understand the power of education to transform lives, communities, and society. In everything we do we aspire to achieve individual and collective excellence through nurturing every student’s unique potential to make sure when they leave and enter the outside world, they are ready to succeed and make an invaluable contribution to the wider society.
We are fully inclusive and have a strong family ethos. Our student population is diverse, and we celebrate our beliefs and cultures which creates a rich, vibrant atmosphere. We have high expectations of everyone, staff, and students alike, and work hard to develop positive relationships to create a firm sense of togetherness. In doing so we promote the following values:
Together we:
• Be Brave
• Be Kind
• Be Present
We are currently on a rapid improvement journey and are working collaboratively across the school and the wider Trust to make Handsworth Grange the number one school in Sheffield and the school of choice for both students and staff. We are passionate about our school and the progress of all our students, if you have the drive and determination to make a difference, this is the school to make that happen.
We founded the Minerva Learning Trust; as a result, we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust and local area. As part of that role we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust.
Our students are approachable and friendly. Please come and see for yourself; we welcome visitors to the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
-Excellent interpersonal skills – able to deal effectively with a wide range of people at all levels.
-Flexible and able to adapt to change.
-A pleasant disposition and ability to stay calm under pressure.
-Demonstrate a positive team approach to work.
-Methodical approach to work tasks with key emphasis on accuracy.
-Ability to work on own initiative.
-To have a willingness to participate in the whole school approach to mentoring students and play an active role as directed by line manager.
What the school offers its staff
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in this role at our school. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College is a popular 11-16 comprehensive school located in the South East of Sheffield. Our mission is to provide an exceptional education for every student, every day.
To achieve our mission, we will:
• Provide a broad and balanced curriculum that challenges everyone.
• Provide care and support to break down barriers to learning.
• Improve our students' vocabulary, comprehension and reading skills.
• Demand high levels of progress and achievement from all students.
Here at Handsworth Grange, we understand the power of education to transform lives, communities, and society. In everything we do we aspire to achieve individual and collective excellence through nurturing every student’s unique potential to make sure when they leave and enter the outside world, they are ready to succeed and make an invaluable contribution to the wider society.
We are fully inclusive and have a strong family ethos. Our student population is diverse, and we celebrate our beliefs and cultures which creates a rich, vibrant atmosphere. We have high expectations of everyone, staff, and students alike, and work hard to develop positive relationships to create a firm sense of togetherness. In doing so we promote the following values:
Together we:
• Be Brave
• Be Kind
• Be Present
We are currently on a rapid improvement journey and are working collaboratively across the school and the wider Trust to make Handsworth Grange the number one school in Sheffield and the school of choice for both students and staff. We are passionate about our school and the progress of all our students, if you have the drive and determination to make a difference, this is the school to make that happen.
We founded the Minerva Learning Trust; as a result, we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust and local area. As part of that role we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust.
Our students are approachable and friendly. Please come and see for yourself; we welcome visitors to the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.