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 of an Achievement Mentor
- 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 inform 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 inEnglish and Mathematics.
- To follow all school policies and practices such as [for example in only] KCSIE, Child Protection, Behaviour for Learning, Health and Safety, and Personal and Professional Conduct.
The staff are very supportive towards each other with a great camaraderie existing throughout the school with a number of social events that are open to all and well attended.
As a valued member of staff we want to ensure that you have access to all the benefits available to you.
Benefits include the following:
- Well being weeks and social events
- A laptop for all teaching staff
- Social staff area and work area for staff
- Access to Merton’s Employee Assistance Programme including new wellbeing app with instant access to free support for up to six weeks
- Collaborative approach to teaching and learning
- Merton Employee VDU users – possible to claim a fee towards glasses/eye test
- Annual season ticket travel loans are available.
- We offer a full induction and training programme.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Ricards Lodge High School welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Educating Successful Women of the Future
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
Closing date: Monday 22nd June 2026 at 9am
Safeguarding Statement
Ricards Lodge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Ricards Lodge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.