Year Group Mentor

An exciting opportunity to join the team at Oasis Academy Sholing

We are looking for a passionate and vibrant person to join our pastoral team as a Year Group Mentor. You will have key responsibility for a specific year group, whilst also being the link for parents and the respective Head of Year. This role will also support across pastoral services, helping with attendance, behaviour for learning, interventional work, student wellbeing and academic achievement.

If you enjoy working with students and their families, we would like to hear from you. You will be working with a great team of staff who believe all students deserve our full support to achieve their personal best.  We have a strong programme of staff development and opportunities to work with a wide variety of professionals in the academy.

Our offer to you

When you join the Sholing family there are several offers you will receive that make us stand out as an employer of choice. These include but are not limited to:

• An exceptional CPD offer including fortnightly personalised Incremental Coaching, weekly Academy-wide and department-based CPD and termly Trust-based CPD.
• The opportunity to undertake fully-funded National Professional Qualifications and access to Apprenticeship Levy for further professional and academic qualifications.
• Access to an iPad for all staff / students.
• The opportunity to further your career within the Trust and region.  There are also a range of National Lead Practitioner roles within the Trust which you may also have the opportunity to apply for.
• Access to Eye Care vouchers and a national Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to Health Shield Cash Plan which can include 24/7 access to a GP, assistance with the cost and access to dental treatment, eye-care, physiotherapy, and chiropody.
• Support to balance your work/life/caring responsibilities via our Time Off Work Policy, Menopause Policy, Flexible Working and Sabbatical Policy
• Trust wide recognition of the challenges to mental health, facing both staff and students, and the support of our National Mental Health Team which is staffed by professionally qualified Mental Health Nurses.
• Confidential Counselling services for you and those that live with you, should times get tough.

Our Academy

Oasis Academy Sholing is a rapidly improving, forward-thinking Academy that maintains high expectations of staff and students.

Sholing is part of the highly successful Oasis Community Learning multi-academy trust.  The successful candidate will share the ambition of community transformation, delivered by exceptional education at the heart of the community.

We are searching for somebody who has high expectations and a commitment to raising standards.

Application process

Like what you see?

For further information and an application pack please visit www.oasisacademysholing.org or email us at recruitment@oasissholing.org or phone 02380 448861.

For an informal discussion about the role and the Academy, don't hesitate to get in touch with Dave Cheeseman, Assistant Principal at David.Cheeseman@oasisshling.org

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.