Pastoral Support Mentor

We are recruiting a Pastoral Support Mentor to work within a secondary school in Sunderland. The role focuses on supporting pupils’ emotional wellbeing, behaviour, and engagement with learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 pastoral support to pupils

• Support emotional regulation and positive behaviour

• Monitor attendance, punctuality and wellbeing

• Work closely with pastoral leads and families

• Help pupils remain engaged in school life

• Experience working with young people is desirable

• Calm, empathetic and resilient approach

• Strong communication skills

• Commitment to supporting vulnerable pupils

This is a rewarding role where you can have a direct impact on pupils’ wellbeing and long-term outcomes.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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