Mentor

Waking Nights - Rota 3 days on 3 days off 9pm till 9am

OUR PURPOSE AND MISSION STATEMENT

My Future Matters Ltd is a trauma informed specialist provider for children and young people, and have enjoyed creating supported semi independent homes, but are excited to announce we are opening our first bespoke trauma informed home that provides care for females between the ages of 13 years to 17 years of age.

We are excited to grow the My Future Matters Ltd family and we are looking to recruit x2 enthusiastic trauma informed mentors for our new home at Sacred Place in Horam, East Sussex. We are looking for professionals with level 2-3 qualifications in Childhood studies or equivalent, and be open to undergo extensive training in trauma and attachment informed approach. We welcome people with life and work experience for this role, as we value direct experience just as much as qualifications. We are committed to investing in our staff for the long term, so we offer a good salary rate, and great growth and development opportunities, as we want our staff to be happy where they work. We believe that consistency is key for our trauma informed homes so will be a longer term opportunity. We are looking for a fulltime positiion, we do not believe in 0 hour contracts, so following a successful 6 months probationary period, offer a permanent position with the My Future Matters Ltd company.
- Must have atleast 1 years experience with working with children.
- Driving preferred not essential
- Must undergo a DBS
- Must provide atleast 2 references
- Must be flexible and able to undertake 3 days on and 3 days off off rota (waking nights 9pm till 9am)

**Responsibilities**:

- Be a positive role model, trusted and consistent mentor for young people
- To follow company policies and procedures to keep young people safe, to have equal opportunities and enable them to achieve and be safe
- To undertake regular training and supervision to create joint development plans to be an effective mentor and achieve your career development goals
- 2 members of staff needs to be on site 24/7, which requires sleep in shifts and waking nights to ensure young people have support and are safe while they are enjoying their time developing in our homes
- To use a trauma and attachment informed approach to develop key trusted relationships with young people and their professional and family/carers, team, to support them achieving their pathway plans, care plans and future goals
- To support young people with their emotional development using trauma informed approaches and interventions to enable them to regulate, relate and recover from their past trauma to enable them to develop in life

The companies mission is to improve the outcomes for young people by using a trauma informed approach and principles to enable the young people to develop, feels safe and reach their futures goals. We are committed to investing in young people so they can have the right tools practically and internally so they are able to repair from there past trauma's to feels safe, and regulated so is bale to learn, develop to achieve their full potential. We are on a mission to give young people the best possible support and space to reduce the current sad statistic of higher risk in this group in their adult life, of experiencing homelessness, having difficulties with substance misuse and mental health difficulties, being exploited and becoming involved in the criminal justice systems (Mental Health Foundation, 2020). We believe young peoples lives matter, and we want to be able to provide the right bespoke support to enable them to be happy, safe and become happy
and be part of their exciting transitional journey's towards adulthood.

Core Values

Feel Safe - It is essential for a young person to be in their window of tolerance to be able to repair from their past trauma to enable them to develop and achieve. Therefore, we have invested time in creating a 24/7 supported safe welcoming, nurturing spaces within our homes to aid in young people feeling a sense of ‘home’, belonging to promote a place of safety.

Young person led - The voice of the young person in paramount and is clear throughout our service this has taken president, as we work with the young people to achieve their own set goals. We ensure young people are involved in all aspects of decision’s in their life, plans and empower young people to attend meetings, to ensure their voice is heard.

Be Empowered and feel Valued - A core approach in our style of working is empowering the young people we work with to make crucial steps and decisions in their life. Through this we hope to enable them to gain a better sense of self, improved self-esteem and feel valued, as their lives and future matters and they can achieve great outcomes.

Access to Opportunities - We strive for all young people to achieve equal opportunities, that is why we have good local networks with careers advisors, business’s and educational