Youth Mentor (REF-093)

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people?

Do you have experience working with and mentoring young people to improve their lives?

If so, we are looking for you to join our team as a Youth Mentor in our Employability & Mentoring Team

As a Youth Mentor, you will work with young people in schools and the community to help them improve their SEMH and employability skills. You will provide one-on-one mentoring to help young people develop their social and emotional skills, build resilience, and prepare for the world of work.

Job summary

Salary

£25,000 – £28,000

 

Contract type

Full-time

 

Number of vacancies

1

 

Start date

Immediate/ASAP

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Application deadline

Thursday 29th February 2024

 

Interview date

Thursday 7th March 2024

 

Location

Midlands Based (dependant upon delivery), with travel to delivery sites and Sport 4 Life offices (Digbeth)

Job description

  1. Work in various locations across Birmingham & Sandwell on a flexible basis, working with disengaged young people (11 – 17 years) to deliver pre-planned one to one mentoring sessions on an ad-hoc basis.
  2. Working with secondary aged students who may be in school, at risk of exclusion or not in a school setting.
  3. Support 11-17 year olds at our S4L sports sessions with active mentoring 
  4. Deliver 1:1 sessions on life skills & resilience to help 11 – 17 year olds with their attendance, attainment & attitude.
  5. Visit various secondary schools, community facilities and venues on an ad-hoc basis.
Full Job Description

Person Specification

Essential

  • Level 3 in Coaching & mentoring (or equivalent)
  • Evidence of CPD in youth education sector
  • Recruiting hard to reach young people 
  • 1+ year of working with 12-29 year old in learning and NEET young people
  • An infectious passion, enthusiasm & charisma 
  • Excellent organisation skills 
  • A fully enhanced DBS disclosure
  • Ability and confidence to work alone

 

Desirable

  • Mentoring qualification 
  • A relevant qualification – e.g. Sales/ recruitment qualification, JNC youth work degree, PGCE, PTLSS, NVQ IAG, or equivalent
  • Delivering personal development support 
  • Delivering quality client IAG 
  • Working with and mentoring NEETs 
  • Managing a caseload of young people
  • High levels of self-motivation, energy and determination 
  • A polite, professional appearance & manner 
  • Evidence of commitment S4L’s vision 
  • An interest in and passion for sport
Employee Benefits

We recognise the importance of diversity within our teams and are fully committed to embracing and maximising talents. See also our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement. We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments, where possible, to recruitment, workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please contact us.

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Thank you for showing an interest in this role with Sport 4 Life UK. To apply, please tell us a little more about you and your skills.

As a business centred around team culture, people are always at the heart of everything we do. We believe in the richness of ideas and power of each other’s differences, and we’re striving to be an organisation packed full of people that are truly representative of the world that we live in. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is more than a tick box.

We want to hire people, not statistics or stereotypes, who bring fresh ideas to our work and young people. For impartiality, our applications are divided into two sections. Both sections must be completed to successfully apply for this role.

  • Part one: Questions about your experience and relevancy to the role – this excludes any personal information and is reviewed by the hiring manager.
  • Part two: Contact information and legally required questions – this is reviewed by our HR team for legal reasons and is not disclosed to the hiring manager prior to the interview.