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What skills and experience we're looking for

Farsley Farfield Primary School is seeking to appoint a Senior Learning Mentor at its busy campus just off the ring road on the border between Leeds and Bradford. The post-holder will lead a small team of part‑time assistant mentors across its two sites, providing pastoral, safeguarding and family support for our diverse school community.

We are a very inclusive school, with at least 30 children in receipt of funding for their SEND needs. Ofsted described our provision for SEND as ‘exceptional’. The inspector also described our safeguarding provision as ‘highly effective’ in her feedback. Can you help us to sustain and build on our excellent practice in these areas?

The successful candidate needs to be the sort of person that is optimistic, imaginative and energetic. Experience of successfully leading family, pastoral and/or safeguarding support previously would be a significant advantage.

Are you:

• Looking for a post where you can really make a difference and have significant responsibility?
• Able to provide effective pastoral and family support?
• Able to work diligently to secure positive outcomes for the most vulnerable children and those needing protection?
• Able to lead, challenge and empower staff, parents, carers and children?
• An excellent role model and effective at motivating and supporting a team?

What the school offers its staff

• A fabulous mix of children - socio‑economically, ethnically and in terms of academic standards - and supportive wider school community
• Engaging children who are enthusiastic and excited to learn
• Plenty of space, inside and out, to provide wonderful learning, sporting and recreational opportunities - the best primary school grounds a recent DfE surveyor had ever seen
• Talented, hardworking and imaginative staff who make working together a pleasure
• A commitment to your professional development

Further details about the role

An ability or willingness to drive a minibus would be welcome. Confidence with IT would be essential.

Farsley Farfield Primary School is a large, popular, consistently ‘good’ school with an intake of 60 and 440 pupils on roll (including up to 52 nursery children). In 2017, we were awarded prestigious TES national Healthy School of the Year in recognition of our extensive and ambitious work on food and physical activity.

We are a split‑site school on one fabulous green campus. This post will operate on both sites which are 200-300m apart - you will get your ‘steps’ in! This is a rewarding place to work.

Interview and assessment day: w/c 5th October

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.