Achievement Mentor - Pastoral Team in London

Ricards Lodge High School is a Gold accredited member of the Attachment Research Community (ARC) (2025/2026), recognising our outstanding trauma-informed and relational practices. You will share our mission to ‘educate successful women of the future’ and are fully committed to girls’ education. You will be on board with our vision to be a leading attachment aware and trauma informed school. You will be working with our Behaviour and Safeguarding leads to support some of our most vulnerable students. You may have a degree in psychology, sociology, education or youth work and/or experience of working with teenagers and young adults in education settings. Your previous experience might include social care, youth work, mentoring, higher level teaching assistants or work with vulnerable young people. Training will be available. You will enjoy and thrive in our high achieving, and happy school, recently inspected as outstanding.

Job Purpose

• To promote a positive, optimistic attitude to learning and achievement within the school, with students, parents/carers and the wider community.
• To implement and role model Attachment Aware and Trauma informed practice.
• To work as part of a team with referred students to remove and address barriers to their learning.
• Plan and implement bespoke reflective behaviour modification tasks with support from the inclusion team, pastoral team and behaviour leads.
• To work with students, parents/carers and colleagues to identify the barriers to learning for referred students and raise their standards of attainment and progress especially in English and Mathematics.
• To follow all school policies and practices such as KCSIE, Child Protection, Behaviour for Learning, Health and Safety, and Personal and Professional Conduct.

Core Responsibilities

• To build positive, professional relationships and links with referred students’ parents/carers and maintain regular contact with them to promote good attendance and punctuality, as well as support parents/carers in their attendance at interviews/meetings.
• To draw up and implement personalised and agreed support programmes and Action Plans for referred students, including setting personal, educational and behaviour targets.
• To work with students in a variety of ways to provide support to achieve their targets. This may include:
• Individual support sessions
• Group work
• To monitor and track referred students’ progress through attendance, engagement, behaviour and attainment on a regular basis, taking rapid action to provide support if difficulties become apparent.
• To ensure that staff are appraised and updated about the Achievement Mentor’s work with individual students.
• To participate in SSP/Student Support Plans, action plans and safety plans and other interventions and/or meetings as needed.
• To liaise with external agencies as appropriate.
• To carry out focussed time-limited or one-off interventions with individuals or groups of students, such as:
• Transition sessions
• Incident reflection meetings
• Mediation
• Restorative justice
• Emotion coaching
• Anti-bullying sessions
• Learning activities relating to need
• To, within the appraisal structure of the school, engage in training activities and respond to actions suggested to improve performance.
• To follow school policies and practices, for example in relation to child protection, behaviour for learning and health and safety.

Specific Responsibilities

• To provide extra curricular activities at lunchtime and after school.
• To support the Behaviour for Learning policy by:
• Controlling the behaviour incident spreadsheet and arranging interventions/escalations with teachers, Heads of Department, Heads of Year and Senior Leadership Team.
• Providing management information on a regular basis to Heads of Department, Heads of Year and Senior Leadership Team.
• To provide reports as required for SLT and Governors.
• To contribute to a programme of small group courses for students and parents/carers.

School Expectations & Contributions

• Be aware of and comply with all school policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the overall aims, ethos and values of the school.
• Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required, including staff.
• Attend morning briefings.
• Participate in training and other learning activities and appraisal as required.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities for the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified, which requires flexibility in all of its employees. This job description is not exhaustive and the post holder will be expected to undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by the Headteacher or as deputised.