Well-being mentor at Heanor Gate Spencer Academy

New

Job Reference #

EDV/2026/HGSA/43537

Location

Kirkley Drive, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7RA

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Term

Full-Time

Salary

£24,021.00 - £25,603.00 Annually (Actual)
NJC 7-11, Full time, term time only plus 1 week

Hours Per Week

Weeks Per Year

Closing Date

Midday, Tue 9th Jun, 2026

Start Date

September 2026 (or earlier if possible)

Positions Available

Positions Available 1

Interview Date(s)

Week beginning Monday 15th June 2026

Interview Date(s) Week beginning Monday 15th June 2026

About this Role

We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, committed and reliable individual to work across the achievement team and our newly formed well-being team. The successful applicant will provide a range of practical and emotional support strategies to the students and their wider family/carer networks. As a member of the wider pastoral team, the mentor will provide higher level support for students to help overcome personal barriers and improve their social, emotional, mental health and well-being.

The individual will be required to support young people on a 1-1 basis but also through small bespoke interventions.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic individual who shares our ethos of supporting all learners to achieve their full potential and raises aspiration.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.