Learning Support Mentor

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Your Role

This position can be full time (32.5 hours) or part time. Please specify in your application what arrangement would suit you.

Start date 1st September 2026

As a learning support mentor, you will be working alongside our learning mentors to provide support to our young people.

Our learners come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds, and with different needs - our workforce should also reflect that, so we can engage, encourage and inspire our learners to be themselves.

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our team.

You will need to be resilient and dedicated to help develop abilities, creativity and raise our young peoples' self esteem.

You can view a full job description and person specification below.

How to Apply

In line with safer recruitment practices, we are only able to accept applications via our application forms, which can be accessed by following the application link on our recruitment portal available here: Vacancies - SAMpeople Recruit. You can save your application at any point and come back to it at a later stage.
• All applicants will be contacted to advise if they have been shortlisted for an interview

Red Balloon Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires the successful candidate to commit to this. The person appointed will be subjected to an enhanced DBS check.

Skills

Experience

Experience of working with SEND and SEMH young people

Personal Attributes

Ability to relate well to children and adults
essential

Discretion and confidentiality
essential

Dedicated
essential

Safeguarding Information

Every learner has the right to flourish and be safe from harm and abuse. As a professional within Red Balloon Educational Trust; we all have a duty to keep our students safe and healthy.

Safeguarding is the action taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. It means:

• protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
• preventing harm to children's health or development
• ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
• taking action to enable all children and young people have the best outcomes

Red Balloon Educational Trust has policies and procedures to ensure that every single learner, regardless of their age, disability, gender, race, religion, or belief, sex or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm. It's so important that everyone at Red Balloon Educational Trust knows what to look out for and how to report any concerns.

Safeguarding policies may be available at Trust level or be held by each Centre individually. All Safeguarding related policies and procedures are available on our website. Every Centre will ensure all staff complete training to ensure we all understand good practice and how to safeguard our learners and ourselves.

Due to the role involving engaging in regulated activity with young people, it is an offence to apply for the role if the you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Safeguarding is Red Balloon Educational Trust's priority. No member of staff will have access to work with learners until all required training has been completed.