Primary School Mentor

11 hours ago

Salford, United Kingdom Salford Foundation Full time

Salford Foundation are seeking to recruit an experienced Mentor to support young people aged 8-9 who have experienced trauma and are at risk of making negative choices. The programme will help provide young people with the tools to transition to secondary school effectively and support them through the changes that transitions bring. The programme is running at Salford Foundation with an additional offer for young children being added as a pilot. We would expect the co-ordinator to create, develop and implement the programme in line with current lessons learnt from other programmes.

You will provide them with a range of learning and development opportunities, mentoring and coaching and positive activities designed to increase aspiration and resilience. You will support them in reducing the risk of young people making negative future choices.

The young people supported attend 3 primary schools in Manchester City Council. The mentor will be responsible for providing a safe 1:1 mentoring support offer for all young people weekly and help them to achieve their personal goals set with their mentor.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Building relationships with young people and their families
- Developing a close partnership with schools
- Completing research-based evaluation tools with young people on the programme
- Ensuring interventions are tailored to meet the needs of the individual
- Ensuring behaviour is sustained long-term
- Engaging in multi-agency work to meet the needs of young people
- Ensuring the support for the client is coherent, co-ordinated and consistent
- Tracking and monitoring of progress and outcomes including liaison with parents/ families
- Acting as an advocate or supporter in assisting service users to better access mainstream services
- The maintenance of relationships with key organisations in the city which work with young people on the programme
- Ensuring evaluation evidence is captured on an ongoing basis to determine the value of the service to users
- Implementing and complying with all the Foundation’s policies, including Safeguarding Policy and procedures and ground rules for implementing appropriate behaviour with children, young people and adults

**Special Requirements**:

- Enhanced-level DBS check will be completed by the employer
- Driving license preferred due to working across multiple sites.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 10 months

Pay: £22,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 28 per week

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Salford: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- working with young people: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Salford

Application deadline: 02/12/2024

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