Learning Mentor - EBSNA (Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance)

NJC Pt 7 - £20076 (actual salary)

(Based on working 32.5 hours per week, 8.45am to 3.45pm – Term time only. Hours include a 30-minute unpaid break and a 30-minute lunchtime duty

We require an EBSNA Learning Mentor to join our Attendance and SEND Team as soon as possible. Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) is a ‘broad umbrella term used to describe a group of children and young people who have a severe difficulty in attending school due to emotional factors, often resulting in prolonged absences from school’.

 We are seeking an experienced colleague to work with students who struggle to come into school, perhaps due to a lack of confidence, anxiety or low literacy and numeracy skills. The EBSNA Learning Mentor will support the student’s return to school with the goal of consistently attending school full time.

 This role will support the provision, aiming to slowly reintegrate students back into full-time mainstream education. The EBSNA Learning Mentor will provide additional support to students to help them to re-engage with their education. The EBSNA Learning Mentor will engage with students and families to build relationships and to raise the student’s resilience, self-confidence and self-esteem – initially, this may be through a series of Home Visits and/or subsequent planned visits at local venues. Eventually, students will be re-introduced to the school environment via a bespoke on-site provision to gradually support students with barriers to learning and re-engagement with learning. You will deliver lessons within the environment or enable them to access lessons through online links to gradually build confidence and re-engage with the curriculum and each curriculum area.

 It is essential that the successful candidate will already have at least two years’ experience of working with young people.

Visits to the school are welcomed.

Holywell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.

We are an equal opportunities employer.