Behaviour Learning Mentor

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Job Description

Contract Type: Fixed term contract / Secondment Opportunity for 8 months

Working Hours: 18.5 hrs per week (term time + 2 weeks)

Worker Type: Hybrid (Dragon Court and Nottingham city Schools in St Anns and Sneinton area of Nottingham)

Salary: Starting Salary is £30,296 (Level one) rising to £33,024 (level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Dragon Court, Woolsthorpe depot, 1 Woolsthorpe Close, NG8 3BP and out in NCC schools

We've got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for? Read on to find out more...

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

This is a new role to be part of an ongoing project funded through the DLUHC Supporting Families team. The purpose of the project is to test methods to better connect the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system of support with the wider Early Help System of support, to ensure families of a child with SEND receive a whole family response to their needs.

The role is to support children and young people with social, emotional and mental health/learning needs within their education setting to maintain placements and secure an effective transition to their secondary phase of education.

The post holder will undertake early help assessments and act as a point of contact for wider family and educational support services.

Each family will have their support needs identified through a whole family assessment and support plan, leading to the creation of a personalised support package.

The Learning Mentor and Family Support role will enable:

• Development of strong relationships between schools and families
• Links to professionals already working with families to ensure joined up support
• Support for young people to develop and retain strong, positive friendship groups
• Building of family resilience and knowledge of support services
• Young people to have a key person they can access before during and after transition
• The family to develop an understanding of secondary education and how to support their child
• The young person to be confident and ready for their move to secondary education
• Effective, holistic information sharing through inclusive tools processes
• Schools to develop understanding of risk factors and how to meet all needs not just learning needs
• Co-production of a transition information/profile about the young person that can be shared with all schools and families

This is a pilot in partnership with the Wells Academy (as well as feeder Primary schools) that can be rolled out to all schools as a model of good practice at the end of the project. Additionally, parent friendly guidance will be developed to support all parents in the City through the Local Offer.

This role will support the work of the project in the schools to enable the full remit of the project to be delivered.

About You

• WHAT SKILLS ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Able to work in partnership with children and families and ensure that their voices are heard.
• Able to negotiate and influence

Leading people

• Has a clear sense of purpose - puts citizens and customers first.
• Delivers objectives while looking after self and other

Equality, diversity and inclusion

• Makes sure we consider the needs of all citizens in our work.
• Shows respect for all team members/colleagues, their opinions and culture

Change and innovation

• demonstrates creativity and makes sure best practice is followed, sharing knowledge with others.
• Shares problems and brings forward suggestions for service improvement.

Collaboration

• Works well with others to deliver our services efficiently and effectively.
• Builds and maintains good relationships and deals with conflict appropriately.

THE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Experience of working as a teaching assistant, family support worker, youth worker or equivalent
• Understanding of the principles of inclusive education in relation to children and young people with SEMH (social, emotional and mental health) and learning needs.
• Knowledge and understanding of the impact of early childhood experiences upon behaviour and learning in school.
• The ability to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of children and young people and families with different ethnic and social backgrounds
• Ability to identify potential barriers to well-being, regulation, learning and engagement and jointly engage in strategies to overcome these barriers.
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies that provide universal, targeted and specialist services to address the needs of children, young people and their families

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Nic Mills at nic.mills@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or 07540302743 for an informal conversation about the role.

Closing Date: 1st May 2024

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: 8/5/24

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.