Sixth Form Guidance Mentor
Salary Range G05
This is a permanent post of 37 hours per week, term time plus 7 days.
Closing date for applications: Friday March 21st 2025.
Start Date: April 2025
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Guidance Mentor to support students in the sixth form exclusively. They will work under the guidance of our Head of Sixth form to provide pastoral support to students in the sixth form, supporting students who need help to overcome barriers to learning in particular. They will be committed to maximising students’ ability to learn, increasing their motivation to remain in learning, and supporting them to achieve post-16 qualifications. The successful candidate will build and maintain positive and supportive relationships with parents and carers as well as outside agencies, manage and run our sixth form centre and will ensure all pupils leaving school are not ‘NEET’.
In return, we offer you:
1. A strong commitment to professional development;
2. A school with high aspirations and a genuine opportunity to make a difference;
3. An opportunity to help shape teaching and learning and our alternative curriculum;
4. A dedicated and supportive team of professional staff and governors;
5. Strong links with other local schools for partnership working and support;
6. A strong community spirit;
7. 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 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr