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Learning mentors help students and pupils deal with any difficulties they have with their learning.
You could work: evenings; attending events or appointments
In your day-to-day duties you may:
You could work at a client's home, at a school or at a college.
Your working environment may be emotionally demanding.
You can get into this job through:
You could take a college course to help you get started in this career. Courses include:
You may need:
You can do an advanced learning mentor apprenticeship.
You'll usually need:
You can volunteer to mentor children or young people.
You can apply directly to get into this type of work. You'll normally need:
Experience of other types of mentoring outside of education may also be helpful. Examples are:
You'll need to:
You can find out more about working in learning support from FE Advice.
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You could specialise in working with particular groups, like excluded students.
You could also move into more senior mentoring roles, with supervisory or co-ordinating duties.
With further training, you might work in student advice and guidance, teaching, speech and language therapy, educational welfare or social work.