Year Group Guidance Mentor
Required from September 2025
This is a permanent position of 37 hours per week, term time plus 5 days.
Salary : G05 - £23,845-£26,733
Closing Date: Monday 19th May 2025
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Guidance Mentor to work with students in the school. They will work under the guidance of a ‘Head of Year’ and take a lead role in providing pastoral support to students in a given year group, addressing the needs of students who need help to overcome barriers to learning in particular. They will work with students to maximise their ability to learn, increase their motivation to remain in learning, and support them to achieve qualifications and will build, and maintain positive and supportive relationships with parents and carers.
In return, we offer you:
• A strong commitment to professional development;
• A school with high aspirations and a genuine opportunity to make a difference;
• An opportunity to help shape teaching and learning and our alternative curriculum;
• A dedicated and supportive team of professional staff and governors;
• Strong links with other local schools for partnership working and support;
• A strong community spirit;
• A vibrant and interesting place to work.
This is an exciting time to join Ysgol Aberconwy, a mixed 11-to-18 comprehensive school of over 1100 pupils. Set in its own extensive campus on the banks of the beautiful River Conwy, the school is situated in the medieval town of Conwy on the North Wales coast adjacent to the Snowdonia National Park. As a PFI School, we are exceptionally well resourced and maintained, and we have developed a significant reputation locally for the quality of our pastoral care as well as our academic success. Numbers in the school will have risen by 40% over the last five years in September, and we have developed specialist resource centres to support children with dyslexia, autism and other learning needs. JOB REQUIREMENTS
Please download the Applicant Information Pack for more information about this role.
https://www.aberconwy.conwy.sch.uk/en_gb/job-opportunities/
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