Progress Mentor

This is an important role supporting a cohort of the most vulnerable students in the College, those who have a social worker, are registered young carers are living independently and have challenging personal circumstances. Consequently, this role will involve you dealing with social care teams and other external agencies. We are looking to appoint someone pro-active who will use this role to champion and support these vulnerable students by ensuring that all barriers to participation are removed. The role requires you drive high attendance and a positive and aspirational attitude to learning. This role is ideal for anyone who has the desire to make a meaningful impact on the lives of our most disadvantaged young people by ensuring that each has a comprehensive and individualised package of wrap-round support. The role complements the work undertaken by other cross-college support teams, particularly the Tutor team and the Learning Support team.

Below gives a sense of the range of responsibilities involved in the role but is not exhaustive.

o To act as the student's point of contact within College in terms of providing information, advice and guidance to support their academic and personal progress.

o To liaise with external stake-holders involved in the student's care and to produce (where necessary) a Personal Education Plan (PEP) to support students with social services intervention and to attend relevant meetings off-site where appropriate.

o To join the College Safeguarding Team and keep CPOMS up-dated as necessary.

o Ensuring there are no financial or other barriers to students accessing all the opportunities available to them in College.

o To be as innovative as possible to ensure you make a practical difference to the student's progress in college.

o To monitor and support attendance and to make home visits if necessary to promote attendance and engagement.

o To support students whose attendance has resulted in missed learning and to monitor the student catching up work through LAB slots and other interventions.

o To monitor Sapien and provide targeted support and intervention to raise each student's achievement and aspirations.

o To work with all staff connected with each student (teachers, tutor, learning support team) to implement a coordinated and personalised strategy to drive achievement.

o To support and promote Careers Information, advice and guidance by encouraging work experience placements, attending careers events and university open days.

o To support and promote student engagement activities including clubs and societies, volunteering, sports and the acquisition of life skills.

o To work with the student on unifrog and encourage their career aspirations, including supporting them in writing their personal statement for university

o To provide 'drop-in' support for these students to encourage them to achieve academically and personally.

o To support and promote the BePART ethos in terms of the value of learning and the powerful contribution it makes to social mobility.

Administration

o To complete all necessary administration associated with the role.

o To attend College events which take place outside normal working hours

The position is ideal for any individual who wants to develop in a unique and innovative job where no two days are the same and where your day to day work is highly rewarding. Whilst the role has prescribed hours, Monday to Friday, there will be times when flexibility will be required to work outside of these hours when urgent matters arise and at arranged events that occur outside of the College day (this time can be claimed back)