SEMH Mentor

Role: SEMH Mentor Academy: Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth Start Date: 01/09/2026 Salary (Actual Salary): £25,744 Working Pattern: 32.5 Hours Per Week, Term Time, Plus 5 Days Are you a highly qualified and experienced professional ready to deliver targeted, high-level support that drives academic attainment, particularly at GCSE level? Join us as a SEMH Mentor, utilizing your expertise in developing regulating/coping strategies to mentor students. This senior role involves managing complex student caseloads, providing specialist knowledge on adaptations, leading statutory reviews, and ensuring bespoke intervention programmes deliver measurable academic progress. This position involves leading an action research project to monitor, assess, and report on student progress and attendance. You will analyse the resulting data to deliver strategic insights for academy governors, leader and Virtual School. You will manage a student caseload, providing crucial specialist advice on adaptations and resources needed to support their educational attainment. A key aspect is the responsibility for meticulously tracking and monitoring EHCP life skill targets and academic outcomes. You will lead Person Centred Reviews/EHCP Reviews, deliver intensive intervention programmes to groups, and complete essential welfare documents like risk assessments and individual health care plans. Furthermore, you will play a central role in leading the administration and provision of Exam Access Arrangements and testing, ensuring compliance, and supporting inclusion rooms like the Bridge and PLC. It is essential that candidates meet the Specialist Teaching Assistant (STA) standards or possess equivalent qualification or demonstrable experience. Candidates must be knowledgeable of the needs of students with learning difficulties and disabilities and the SEND Code of Practice. An understanding of Attachment Aware and Trauma Informed practice would be desirable. Required skills include the ability to write comprehensive reports, risk assessments, and Individual Health Care Plans, coupled with proven experience using data to measure and monitor progress and attainment. Efficient and effective organisational skills are mandatory.

Welcome from the Principal: As Principal, I am immensely proud to introduce you to Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth. Located near key commuting routes in Stockton-on-Tees, our academy is a place that will capture your heart. Our dedicated staff has a relentless pursuit of improving student lives, giving them a launchpad to fulfill their ambitions. This is an improving school. What sets us apart are the strong relationships we have; staff know our students and families well, fostering an environment where students flourish and are motivated to be their best. We serve an area of deprivation with a strong moral purpose: to ensure students have the opportunity to transform their lives through the best education they are entitled to. We value practition