Learning and Skills Mentor Apprenticeship (Level 4)
Learning and Skills Mentor Apprenticeship (Level 4)
Why this apprenticeship?
Mentoring takes place in all parts of the Education and Training Sector and staff-development context.
Within the Learning and Skills Mentor apprenticeship, you could be supporting learners of all ages and all levels to develop within a new work role.
These learners may be apprentices themselves, trainees, or new recruits.
This might be the first steps towards your aspirations to be a leader/manager or to work within education or training.
You will have sector specific experience and qualifications, which you will use to guide and advise those who are less experienced and are new to a work role.
The Learning and Skills Mentor is therefore a ‘dual professional’, having both up-to-date knowledge and skills in a specialist area and the generic skills necessary to develop, support, and advice others.
If you enjoy motivating others, are aspirational, and have a passion for learning and sharing your knowledge, this apprenticeship could be for you.
Entry Requirements
You need to be aged 16 years and over
GCSE Grade (C/4) and above in maths and English or willing to study and achieve Functional Skills at Level 2
Course Content
- Plan, conduct, and record mentoring activities to support the progression of the mentee working within legal and ethical frameworks, including confidentiality and safeguarding.
- 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.
- Select and use mentoring models, tools, and techniques to support mentees in making desired changes, demonstrating responsiveness to the individual mentee’s needs.
- Demonstrate awareness of own values, beliefs, and behaviours and their effect on the mentor/mentee relationship.
- 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.
- Establish rigorous evaluation processes with mentees to support reflection on the effectiveness of the mentoring relationship.
- Evaluate and reflect on effectiveness of own practice for the purpose of self-development.
- Make sustainably informed decisions in approaches used to plan, conduct, record, and evaluate mentoring practice.
- Maintain records of mentoring practice and recording of continual professional development activities.
What qualifications will I achieve?
You would achieve:
- Learning and Skills Mentor Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard
- English, maths, and ICT Functional Skills Level 2 (for those that have not achieved a grade C or Level 4 or above)
What can I do after this apprenticeship?
This course is designed to give you the skills, knowledge and behaviours to progress into roles where you supervise and mentor in a range of environments. This could also lead to progression to different roles in the education sector like a tutor/trainer.