Learning Mentor - Part-time

St Peter in Thanet Church of England Junior School, Broadstairs

• Ref:KCC886-3360-161S
• Posted:11/11/2025
• Pay:£25,252 - £26,262 pro rata
• Start Date:January 2025
• App Close Date:26/11/2025 at 09:00
• Interviews:TBC

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 Our support staff play a vital role in the life of St. Peter’s.

In the classroom they act as the teachers’ eyes and ears, supporting groups and individuals, helping keep a positive working atmosphere and making sure every child is ready to learn. In the playground they lead games, keep things safe and calm and give first aid when things go wrong. Where ever they are, they comfort children, encourage children, settle conflicts, repair friendships and just bring out the best in all our children.

We are looking for the right Learning Mentor to join our team of skilled HLTAs and TAs who support our children and enable them to fulfil their potential. If you are passionate about working with children in order to help them succeed, then this role is for you.

Our HLTA team consists of an Emotional and Wellbeing Mentor, a Speech and Language Mentor and two Cognition and Learning Mentors – one of whom is leaving us at the end of this term.

Primarily this role will be supporting children, individually or more usually in small groups, with the learning of key maths and English skills. You will be working under the guidance of our two SENCos as well as class teachers, will be an important part of this support team and will be responsible for the planning and delivery of your specific interventions.

We are a friendly school with a supportive team of staff who will ensure that you are able to achieve within your role.

We are looking to appoint a caring, skilled, hardworking, committed, resilient and reliable person – our children deserve nothing less!

Experience working within a school is essential. GCSE level English and Maths is a requirement and a HLTA qualification is desirable. Above all, you need to be committed to working as part of a team who are determined to secure the absolute best for our all our pupils – we believe there is success in every child.

Information about the school

Our Ofsted inspection in May 2023 judged St Peter's to be an outstanding school in all areas and for the last four years we have been amongst the highest achieving schools in the local area. We pride ourselves on our strengths in art, music, sport and drama where our specialist teachers and performance spaces enable children to really excel.

Although the school was established in 1694 our present building is much newer, having been opened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1998. We have good links with our local secondary schools. The majority of our children join us in Year 3 from Callis Grange Infants with whom we have a linked admissions policy but also have children from other schools joining us.

We have a warm and caring environment where all children, parents and staff work together as part of a positive learning culture, which enables our children to grow and learn in an atmosphere of true care and respect and develop into young people of whom we can be genuinely proud. This is through the combination of high quality teaching and pastoral care, rooted in our strong Christian values. These values and traditions help children to gain an understanding of society today and help us to prepare them well for life in modern Britain.

Our ‘all round’ curriculum means St Peter’s children flourish academically, artistically, musically, dramatically and on the sports field. We work hard to help each and every child to fulfil their potential as we believe that there is success in every child.

St. Peter's Junior School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Child Protection Policy, available on our website.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs Heather Prentice
• Address:Grange Road, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 3EP
• Telephone: (01843) 861430
• Email: office@stpetersthanet.co.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description
• Privacy Notice
• Child Protection Policy