Learning and Skills Mentor - Apprenticeship - Level 4
- Start:
- Throughout the year
- Duration:
- 12 months
- Location:
- Balliol Road Campus and your workplace
- Level:
- 4
Apprenticeship Details
The primary goal of this 12 month apprenticeship is to support and develop new and aspiring mentors into highly effective individuals capable of guiding, supporting, and fostering the growth and development of others.
The learning and skills mentor apprenticeship is crafted to equip mentors with the essential knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to make a meaningful impact, whether in a formal educational setting, workplace, or community environment.
- Duty 1 Plan, conduct and record mentoring activities to support the progression of the mentee working within legal and ethical frameworks, including confidentiality and safeguarding.
- Duty 2 Use strategies to establish and maintain expectations and boundaries of mentoring contract, including recognising starting points of mentee, agreed development needs, potential barriers to development and where relevant, other stakeholders needs.
- Duty 3 Select and use mentoring models, tools and techniques to support mentee to make desired changes, demonstrating responsiveness to the individual mentee needs.
- Duty 4 Demonstrate awareness of own values, beliefs and behaviours and their effect on the mentor/mentee relationship.
- Duty 5 Provide support to the mentee providing information, advice and guidance, working within own professional boundaries and recognising requirements for referral to other professional services where required.
- Duty 6 Establish rigorous evaluation processes with mentee to support reflection on effectiveness of mentoring relationship.
- Duty 7 Evaluate and reflect on effectiveness of own practice for the purpose of self-development.
- Duty 8 Make sustainably informed decisions in approaches used to plan, conduct, record and evaluate mentoring practice.
- Duty 9 Maintain records of mentoring practice and recording of continual professional development activities.
- Aged 16+
- Those without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to completion of their Apprenticeship. Functional skills will be offered alongside your level 4 qualification
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For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement, your English and maths minimum requirement is Entry Level 3 and British Sign Language qualification are an alternative to English qualifications for whom this is their primary language.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Below are the answers to some questions that we are often asked:
Most apprenticeships take between 12 - 18 months to complete.
Yes, you will be paid by your employer for the duration of your apprenticeship. You will be paid at least the government’s minimum wage rate for apprentices, £3.70. A lot of employers pay their apprentices a higher hourly wage than the minimum rate.
This is ultimately up to your employers, but more than 90% of apprentices stay in employment after their course ends.
We work with lots of employers to provide apprentice positions. Check out our live vacancies section above or call 0151 353 4444 to chat to our team.
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