United Kingdom · Coaching and Mentoring
Learning mentor
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A Job Description Is a Starting Point.
Read what the role involves. Then think about your own work: what feels familiar, and what would you like to practise?
As a Learning mentor, a good place to start is Using and Checking AI Tools in Daily Work, a free Future Fluency module at Level 3. You'd practise using everyday AI tools on real tasks from your own week, and checking what they produce before you use it.
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1From This Job To A Course
The qualifications matched to this job
Matched from the standards this job is measured against: a suggestion, not an official ruling.
The units you would start with
Built for Learning mentor
3 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.
- Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring Level 3
- Support Learners by Mentoring in the Workplace Level 3
- Enabling learning opportunities in the workplace Level 4
Next, a free account. We build your Learning mentor plan as you set up, starting with the free AI Fluency module. No card.
Your first Future Fluency module is free. After that, your AI tutor is £70 a month.
2What This Role Really Is
Supporting learners of all ages, and all levels, to develop within a new work role.
- Support Learning Providers to integrate Learning Mentor provision
- Coordinate and support Learning Mentors
- Review the performance of Learning Mentors
- Explain the role as a mentor and the activities involved.
- Identify contributions of mentoring to training programs.
- Determine necessary resources and identify other potential mentors.
- Establish the mentoring relationship and agree on roles and expectations.
- Plan and conduct mentoring sessions and provide support to trainees.
- Facilitate trainee development, confidence, and responsibility.
- Offer constructive feedback and assess the mentoring relationship’s effectiveness.
- Recognize when the mentoring relationship should evolve or conclude.
- Utilize models and methods to analyze clients’ needs and aspirations
- Ensure a safe and appropriate discussion environment
- Support clients in reflecting and taking ownership of their decisions
- Enhance clients' awareness of strengths and development areas
- Identify learning and development objectives with clients
- Establish rapport and communicate effectively to engage clients
- Identify and address issues or barriers to client development
3The Pathway
The pathway
Getting in, in the UK
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Learning mentor (Level 3) — Skills England standard ST0148
4Pay And Demand
ONS's coding index maps “Learning mentor” to more than one occupation, so there is no one median to quote. Rather than pick, here is each one it could be, with its own figure:
- Child and early years officers £31,001 a year
- Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. £30,087 a year
ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, from the April 2025 survey, about six months old when published, as ASHE always is, under the Open Government Licence.
Learning That Starts With You
Learn One to One, Through Your Own Work
Work through practical tasks with your AI tutor. You explain your choices, try things out and learn at your pace.
A lesson from Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring, worked against Learning mentor.
Applied to your work in Learning mentor
The objective of this unit is to equip learners with the understanding and skills to facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring. Learners will explore various mentoring techniques, identify barriers to learning and development, and promote the wellbeing and resilience of individuals through effective mentoring practices.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time.
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5Where To Go From Here
This role profile is © 2026 Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.
Start with Your Experience
From Your Role to Your Next Role
Consider the work you do now, the role you want and the learning behind your next step.
The Practical Arrangements
Teaching and the Qualification
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Your Next Step
Put This Role in Your Path
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