Clear Links Support is recruiting Study Mentors to support learners studying at Nacro Education Centres across the country.

About Nacro:

Nacro Education’s mission is to support individuals in gaining the skills, knowledge and experience to progress confidently onto their next steps, whether that is further education, training, or work. Nacro focus on vocational qualifications, employability, maths and English, and work placement opportunities.

Many people Nacro work with have faced challenges; growing up in care, facing homelessness, failed by the education system or caught up in the tide of the justice system. Nacro believes that everyone deserves a good education and the chance to start again.

The role:

You will be working with learners to support them in recognising their barriers to learning and to provide strategies to develop their skills to manage the impact of their condition impairment or circumstance on their learning experience. This may include developing strategies to manage anxiety, build confidence, to develop concentration skills, time management skills, to prioritise workloads and to create schedules of work-life balance.

Learners may also require support in developing skills in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information in written and spoken language, and strategies to develop memory, organisation, attention and numeracy skills.

We offer:

One set day of work per week e.g. every Wednesday
Competitive hourly pay rate, plus holiday pay per hour (£3.62 for this role)
Continuous Professional Development allowance
Free CPD accredited online training on relevant topics
Workplace pension scheme
A dedicated team of office staff and a single point of contact to support you in the role

Applicants must be available to provide on site support for one day per week at one of the following Nacro locations: Middlesborough, Stoke-on-Trent, Chatham, Peterborough

Required qualifications and experience:

Successful applicants must have a degree and at least one of the following:

A teaching qualification
A relevant postgraduate qualification (e.g. in a subject such as education, disability awareness, inclusive practice, mental health)
Relevant professional experience (e.g. in areas such as learning support, counselling, coaching, social work, specialist teaching)
Membership of a relevant professional body such as BACP, HCPC, NCCPS, SWE, UMHAN, PATOSS, PASSHE, BDA, Dyslexia Guild.

The above lists are not exhaustive. Please contact us if you have any questions about relevant qualifications, experience or professional membership.

It is desirable that applicants have experience in a similar role within the last five years. Applicants should also have an understanding of the impact of disabilities in the education context.

By the start of employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. This post is also subject to satisfactory references, a DBS check, as well as other applicable pre-employment checks.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and are positive about the employment of disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised vacancy will be contacted to discuss their application further.

If you may need reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please indicate this on the application form. We will contact you to find out how we can best support you if your application is progressed.

If you require this job advert or the application form in a different format, please contact us on supportallocation@clear-links.co.uk.

We aim to process applications within 7 working days but during busy periods this may take longer.