Learning Mentor
Long Lawford Primary School
FT Maternity Leave Contract commencing 1st September 2026 until 31st August 2027
Band I SCP 17-20 £27,418.96 - £29,718.44 per annum (actual)
About Us & The Role
Long Lawford Primary School is an exciting, stimulating and joyful place for all. We are a happy, forward thinking school, passionate about ensuring all children have access to the highest quality education in a safe and stimulating environment.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Learning Mentor to join our established mentor team to support and enhance the educational provision at our school, particularly with children with varying social and emotional needs.
The position is to commence 1st September 2026 and will be term time only with 5 teacher training days per academic year (39 weeks per year). The hours are 35 hours per week (8.30am – 4pm Mon–Fri with a 30-minute lunch break).
Key Requirements
* To be innovative and creative in engaging children and families inspiring positive attitudes.
* To work collaboratively and provide a complementary service to that provided by teachers and Pastoral/ Inclusion Team in order to address the needs of pupils who need help and support to overcome barriers to learning.
* To contribute to raising standards of attainment, improving attendance, reducing exclusions and maintaining good standards of behaviour.
* Develop positive mentoring relationships with pupils identified as needing support devising pupil action plans which raise standards.
* To engage with Senior Leaders in pupil performance data, pupil premium pupils identifying pupils in need of targeted support. To design and implement strategies for pupils to ‘make up lost ground’ enabling them to become independent learners and achievers.
* Establish and maintain home/school liaison with the families and carers of pupils receiving support in order to keep them informed about pupil needs and progress, and to secure positive family and carer involvement and support. OFFICIAL
* Establish good relations and be proactive in engaging and brokering interagency support – e.g. Behaviour Support, Child Guidance, and Counselling – so that the needs of the pupil concerned are met in a focused and integrated way.
* To develop an induction support package for newly arrived pupils as well as efficient and effective transfer of pupil information at points of transition.
* To facilitate well planned social skills support groups for pupils enabling them to thrive both as individuals and within a range of friendship / collective groups.
In Return We Can Offer
* Children who are eager to learn.
* A forward-looking school with high expectations of all.
* A welcoming, supportive and committed staff team.
* A positive and encouraging environment in which to work and learn.
* Opportunities to develop professionally.
To be considered for this role it is preferable you have previous experience of working in an educational or training setting with primary school aged children who have support needs.
Relevant Allowances
None
How to Apply / Additional Information
The application pack is available to download from this site or can be requested from the school office (email admin2405@welearn365.com, Tel 01788 543332).
Completed application forms to be returned to the school by email to admin2405@welearn365.com or delivered by post/hand to the school office by the deadline date and time.
Please mark your application for the attention of Mrs C Gibbons, School Business Manager.
Please note we do not accept CV's and will only accept the Warwickshire County Council school application form.
Closing Date is 9am Friday 5th June 2026, shortlisting will take place shortly after. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 9th June 2026. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted further.
Long Lawford Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
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