Overview
Are you personable, resilient and reliable with the commitment – and, above all, the understanding – to build trusted professional relationships with vulnerable children and young people? You’ll join St Giles Trust in the volunteer role of SOS+ North Yorkshire Peer Adviser – working on an award-winning project that educates children and young people around the risks and signs of exploitation, serious violence, and gangs, through group facilitated sessions and tailored one-to-one intervention sessions in schools and other community settings.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
What We Are Looking For
* Relevant knowledge/understanding, preferably with lived/personal experience of the Criminal Justice System, and/or having been affected by criminal or sexual exploitation.
* Experience with socially excluded children, young people and/or adults.
* Experience of providing advice and guidance and/or mentoring (not essential).
* Awards in Education & Training and/or Mentoring Level 3 qualification (or willingness to work towards).
* Ability to communicate and understand different experiences and perspectives without judgement.
Note: this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation. St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Closing date: 9 a.m. on 01 October 2025. Interviews: 07 October 2025 on Teams.
Details
* Seniority level: Internship
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance and Sales
* Industries: Advertising Services
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