SCITT Lead Mentor
Avanti Schools Trust
Harrow
- New
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- £51,492 per annum pro rata
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 2nd September 2024
- Apply by:
- 1 July 2024
Job overview
About us and the role
Avanti Schools Trust is looking for a dedicated and experienced SCITT Lead Mentor to join our team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing and supporting trainee teachers, ensuring they receive the best phase-specific training and mentorship. This role involves working closely with school-based mentors, delivering high-quality training sessions, and guiding trainees towards achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
What will you do?
- Provide high-quality, phase-specific development and support to a portfolio of trainees in Avanti Schools Trust schools.
- Assist mentors with effective observations, feedback, and instructional coaching to improve trainees' classroom practices.
- Teach core and foundation subject sessions both online and in-person.
- Ensure trainees meet the core requirements for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Why should you apply
You will be working in a fantastic environment.
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
- Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
- LGPS pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
What are we looking for?
- QTS qualified
- Excellent classroom pedagogy
- Good understanding of the Teachers' Standards and Core Content Framework
- Some experience of developing, mentoring, and coaching trainee teachers within an ITT route (e.g., PGCE, Schools Direct, Teach First).
- Experience developing the practice of other qualified teachers
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Attached documents
About Avanti Schools Trust
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