Young Persons Mentor

3 weeks ago

Bracknell, United Kingdom Storyy Group Full time

Job Title: Young Person’s Mentor

**Salary**: £23,500

Hours: 37.5 hours, working on a 3-week rolling rota pattern (including weekends and Bank Holidays); you will work one weekend in three. Early shift: 8am to 4pm / Late shift: 12.30pm to 8.30pm. Loan working may be required.

Work Base: Bracknell (You will be based at one home; however, flexibility is required to travel to other homes if required).

At Storyy Group, we believe that every young person deserves a champion who will ensure that each one of our young people has a brighter future.

To make this dream a reality we provide residential care, semi-independent accommodation, alternate school provision and positive pathways for children and young people.

The 16+ accommodation-based services provide intensive support to care-experienced young people. There are between 5 and 6 young people living in our homes at one time; we do not provide personal care, but instead support young people towards independent living.

We also have several bases across Berkshire, including primary and secondary Alternative Provision sites that offer creative arts, boxing, and construction experience, in addition to children’s homes and supported accommodation. Some of our young people also attend our Alternative Provision, ensuring they can access education and are encouraged to learn in different ways.

We collaborate with local authorities, schools, parents, and carers to engage children and young people in learning, positive activities, and pathways for their future. We give them the support and tools they need to write their own Storyy.

Key Objectives

Your role as a Young Person’s Mentor is to provide support to young people in a compassionate and caring home environment, with a focus on each person being able to:

- Be Healthy
- Stay Safe
- Enjoy and Achieve
- Make a Positive Contribution
- Achieve Economic Wellbeing

What your day-to-day responsibilities will look like:

- To provide exceptional person-centred and innovative support when and where it is needed
- To adopt and provide “Trauma-Informed Support”
- To build supportive, trusting, and positive relationships with young people
- To encourage ‘positive risk taking’ within a safe risk-assessed framework
- To provide support with daily living skills and activities to ensure the young people enjoy a high quality of accommodation that is both safe and enjoyable
- To involve the young people with the design, delivery, and development of the service
- Support the young people to develop resilience and manage their adverse experiences
- To fully understand the aims, objectives, and ethos of ‘outcomes focused support services’ and reflect these in your daily work.
- To ensure that all Storyy Group and local authority safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to
- To ensure that regular opportunities are given for young people to feedback on the service and for consultation and to ensure that this information is used to improve the service
- To keep accurate, confidential, and up to date support records for effective and efficient working
- To maintain the cleanliness of the premises
- To attend regular meetings, training, and supervisions to help your own professional development
- Collaborating closely with external professional teams that support the young people
- Ensuring the young person and the service is safe and to raise and safeguarding concerns as soon as you become aware
- Work within Ofsted regulations and Quality Standards.

A Day in the Life of a Young Person’s Mentor:
Meet Matty, a young person in our care:
Matty is a 16-year-old young man, who has been in the care of the Local Authority since the age of 7. Matty was originally taken into care due to neglect and having experienced sexual abuse within the family unit. Matty has had several foster placements which have broken down due to aggressive behavior, self-harming and unmanageable personal hygiene concerns.

Matty had started to use cannabis with his friendship group and there were significant concerns that he was being criminally exploited by a county lines drug gang. Due to these concerns, Matty was referred to Storyy Group. He was placed with us as we are out of his local area, to reduce the immediate risk associated with the gangs.

Matty has a history of not participating in support from external agencies and is currently refusing to attend his secondary school.

This is what we do here at Storyy Homes. How will you help Matty to feel safe, settled and help him to move towards independence?

PERSON SPECIFICATION

KEY CRITERIA

Skills and qualifications - DESIRABLE
- NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care
- Experience working with children and young people

Competence Summary - ESSENTIAL

(Knowledge, abilities, skills, experience)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to engage with young people with challenging behaviour and/or complex emotional and behavioural needs
- Strong commitment to working as part of

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