Student Support Mentor - The Grange School
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
Join a supportive team where community sits at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for someone who is passionate about inspiring students to achieve their full potential.
We require a Student Support Mentor to support individual and small groups of students and engage with them by delivering 1-1 small group work sessions to support and develop emotional, social and behavioural competences.
Term time only: Yes
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3, Point 16 FTE £28,129 (pro rata £13,539 approximately) Bucks Range 3, Point 20 FTE £30,174 (pro rata £14,524 approximately)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Working 08:00 – 15:30 with a 30 minute lunch break would equal 7 hours per day over 3 days a week.
Closing date: 11/08/2025 09:00
Interviews to be held: Week commencing Monday 18 August 2025
About us
Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and char students learn the skills for success.
We support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.
Website: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/
About the role
We require a Student Support Mentor to support individual and small groups of students and engage with them by delivering 1-1 small group work sessions to support and develop emotional, social and behavioural competences.
Please see attached Job description for further information.
About you
The successful candidate will be someone who is approachable, supportive and empathetic.
You will be resilient and hard-working and a keen team player, who equally is confident to work alone.
Other information
Visits to the school are welcomed.
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Please apply here: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies.
Tel: 01296 390900
Email: [email protected]
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview. Please follow this link for more details: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies/online-searches-on-shortlisted-candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
