Learning Mentor

Overview

Closing Date: 30 January, 2026

Salary: 22,

Location: Wokingham

Odyssey House School is an exciting special school setting, aiming to provide the highest quality education to students with additional needs. Our students have a range of additional needs, primarily high-functioning autism, anxiety and emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). All students follow a differentiated National Curriculum, with the aim of achieving a range of recognised qualifications at Key Stage 4 and 5 including Entry Level, Functional Skills, GCSEs and other Level 2 qualifications.

The School Ethos Is Shaped By Our Mission “To change a child’s experience of education through connection, nurture and belief to help them learn, grown and achieve transformative life outcomes.”

The school’s premises have been designed specifically to meet the needs of neurodiverse children as well as providing an amazing work environment, where staff benefit from excellent facilities of the highest quality, allowing them to deliver exceptional education.

Staff and students benefit from small class sizes, a dedicated library, reading booths, student focus areas, a sensory room, staff well-being lounge and work area.

Apply now if you would like to support our students in their journey!

What We Can Offer You

At Odyssey we pride ourselves on developing a creative and supportive environment. In addition to offering a competitive salary, our offer to you includes:

• Newly renovated schools, refurbished to a high standard including air conditioning and staff wellbeing areas based in beautiful surroundings
• A statutory state pension
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff celebration events
• Staff recognition
• Supportive CPD offers
• Onsite Parking (Wokingham site)

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The post is advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

Odyssey will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

Hours: 8:30-5pm

• To work under the instruction/direction of senior manager/teaching staff to support the delivery of quality learning and teaching of pupils with special educational needs. Work with children and young people who have a range of significant and often complex SEND for example those with autism, social, emotional and mental health difficulties, or moderate learning difficulties including, in some instances, those with medical conditions and those who exhibit challenging behaviour.
  
  To undertake specified work with individuals, groups and whole classes under the direction and supervision of a qualified teacher;
• To undertake 1:1 work/care/support programmes in the pupil’s home or other setting (as arranged by the school) to enable access to learning for pupils who are unable to attend school and are enrolled on the school’s transition / outreach programmes.
• To encourage the participation of pupils in the social and academic processes of the school and enable pupils to become more independent learners.
• To undertake work/care/support programmes to enable access to learning for pupils and to assist the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom.

Support for Pupils, Teachers and the Curriculum

• Work collaboratively with teachers and other professional agencies to provide effective support for learning activities;
• Awareness of and work within school policies and procedures especially when and in context to supporting pupils with their learning in their homes;
• To work with children and young people who have extremely complex needs and, in some instances, serious medical conditions. Providing an…