Job Title: Youth Mentor
Primary Purpose of Job: JHF Mentors come from a range of backgrounds and work to increase engagement, build resilience, and provide a positive role model to children and young people. Bespoke mentoring support is currently needed within community and educational settings throughout North Somerset.
Reporting to: Programme Team
Hours: A range of working hours available, depending on placements – usually between 15-30 hours a week. Hours are mutually agreed in advance. Once agreed, placements take place at a consistent time each week, most often term-time only.
Contract: Self-Employed
Rate: £16.82 per hour
Our Charity
The JHF Youth Charity is a community-focused not for profit organisation that aims to inspire and empower young lives through the strength of positive relationships. We have been working within North Somerset and surrounding areas for 10 years and have built up an excellent reputation for delivering high quality, child-centred, bespoke support.
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Person Specification
Our mentors came from all types of backgrounds. We embrace diversity of age, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual origination and identity in order to positively promote young people's self worth, individuality and potential.
You will be actively encouraging attendance and engagement, working 1:1 with young people to instil confidence, life skills and self-esteem. You will work flexibly with families, schools and outside agencies. You will be understanding to the young person's needs and provide professional and reliable support to help them achieve their agreed outcomes.
You will be required to work independently and as part of a wider team. As each placement is bespoke, no two days will be the same. Within your role, you will be empowering young people in a variety of ways, motivating them to participate in activities that challenge and inspire them.
Skills required
· Experience supporting young people (either personally, professionally or as a volunteer)
· Ability to build positive relationships with young people and their families/carers
· Good written and oral communication skills
· Good IT skills (Gmail and Beacon are used for daily reporting)
· Being able to work using your own initiative and as part of a team
· Confident, calm and positive presence
· Valid UK drivers' licence and use of a car for work
· Right to live and work within the UK
Desirable:
· Experience working with young people with special educational needs
· Practical knowledge of safeguarding and child protection
· Enhanced DBS Certificate on the update service
Responsibilities
· To maintain accurate records for reporting and safeguarding purposes and complete records in a timely manner
· To plan and deliver mentoring to an agreed work programme
· Maintain professionalism and represent the values and objectives of the JHF
· To be responsible for your own invoicing and comply with self-employment regulations
· To undertake any other duties within the scope of the role
If you are interested in this role, then please contact and request a JHF Recruitment Application Form. We look forward to hearing from you.
The JHF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or those who are returning to work after a career break.
This post is subject to two satisfactory reference checks and DBS enhanced disclosure as well as the completion of minimum standards training completion (Safeguarding, Prevent, and UK Data Protection). Please do not hesitate to contact the JHF should you wish to discuss further.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £16.82 per hour
Benefits:
* Casual dress
Work Location: In person