Learning Support Mentor Job at Randstad (Cambridge)

Job Description

We are seeking a proactive and versatile Learning Support Mentor to join a high-quality support team operating across campuses in Cambridge and Huntingdon. In this role, you will work within the Service Industries department, providing essential support to further education students with a wide range of learning difficulties and disabilities-including Autistic Spectrum Disorders, D/deaf students, physical access needs, visual impairments, and language impairments. Your core mission is to empower these young people to access the curriculum fully, hit their targets, and build the independence required for their future lives and careers.

Job Responsibility

Academic & Metacognitive Support: Collaborate with lecturing staff and assessors across diverse learning environments. Assist students with reading materials, note-taking, word processing, utilising enabling technologies, defining complex language, and developing core metacognitive skills
Empowering Personalised Outcomes: Directly support young people to make measurable progress toward their personalised learning goals, including specific targets outlined in their Education, Health, and Care Plans (EHCPs)
Resource Adaptation: Dynamically modify and adapt classroom resources to ensure accessibility, such as enlarging text, simplifying carrier language, and recommending differentiation strategies to teaching staff
Therapy Intervention Support: Assist with the delivery of tailored therapy interventions-including Physiotherapy and Speech & Language Therapy-strictly following the guidance and programmes designed by certified professionals
Holistic & Community Supervision: Provide vital support outside the formal classroom setting, including during breaks, lunchtimes, pre-arranged educational trips, and the delivery of study programmes off-campus
Vigilant Safeguarding & Welfare: Actively assist colleagues in identifying student support needs, expressing timely concerns regarding student welfare (safeguarding), and referring students to learner services when necessary
Administrative Excellence: Maintain precise, daily records of student attendance, target-setting, and progression on internal tracking systems (Pro-Monitor) to ensure all provided support is transparently documented
Review & Consultation: Work directly with students to review their ongoing support needs, and attend statutory annual review meetings with parents and external key workers when requested

Requirements

Background in youth work
Behaviour management
Building relationships
Communication
De-escalation techniques
Empathy
Experience in administering medication
Experience in managing challenging behaviour
Experience with autism spectrum disorders
Experience with learning difficulties
Experience with social emotional mental health
Inclusiveness
Manual handling
Marking
Mentor experience
Personal care experience
Planning
Resilience
Restraint training
Speech and language therapy experience

What we offer

Access to the highly secure Local Government Pension Scheme
E-learning modules

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