Hours: 37 hours per week – Fixed Term (up to 31 March 2025)
About us
Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential.
This post is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority as the lead authority.
About the role
We are seeking Mentors who can offer guidance, support, and form a positive one-to-one relationship with mentees. The mentor’s role is to provide support to the mentee to enable them to take responsibility for areas of professional development. The mentor is there to help improve the knowledge and required skills of the mentee by creating a supportive, challenging, and reflective learning environment.
Peer Mentors will share life experiences with participants and will be able to demonstrate stability, whilst drawing on their own life experience in offering support. The young people will be supported on a journey towards positive activity and work, enabling a new sense of self and creating social networks that will allow them to develop and sustain their journey.
A bit about you
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with personal experience or knowledge of the challenges faced by young people. You will have experience in establishing and developing face-to-face relationships with young people, as well as having a professional, tactful, and patient approach.
You’ll thrive working in a busy and friendly environment and will be able to work effectively as a member of a team within a complex, changing, and challenging environment.
For an informal discussion about this role please contact Natalie Wrench (Project Manager) on 07817 960233.
Want to apply?
Great! All you need to do is complete the application form below.
All completed applications should be emailed to HR.NorthEast@groundwork.org.uk or by post to Groundwork NE & Cumbria, Unit 14 Parsons Court, Welbury Way, Aycliffe Industrial Park, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 6ZE.
Closing date: Wednesday 29th January 2025
Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your differences, and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork, we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children, and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people, and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing, and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people, and adults.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
We reserve the right to close this advert at any time.
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