Job Responsibilities
1. To manage a mixed caseload of potential mentees and existing mentoring relationships. The successful candidate will be the lead for our work with women, including regular visits to HMP Eastwood Park and female Approved Premises in Bristol.
2. To connect and meet with people who have a criminal record (both in the community and in prison) who have been referred to us, in order to assess their suitability to receive mentoring support.
3. To liaise with referral agencies in and around Bristol (e.g., Probation, mental health teams, and other through-the-gate services) for further information to support existing referrals, including obtaining risk assessments.
4. To match mentees with mentors from our group of trained volunteers and introduce them in the community or on occasion in prison.
5. To supervise mentoring relationships and offer ongoing support and advice to mentors and mentees for the course of their relationship, but especially in the early months.
6. With the MentorMe team to deliver mentoring training (at least 3 times a year) to groups of volunteers from churches and help to assess their suitability as mentors through this process.
7. To interview potential mentors to further determine eligibility to be a mentor.
8. With the MentorMe team to deliver group supervision to our volunteer mentors, as well as taking part in other annual MentorMe meals and events.
9. To build, and build upon, relationships with community-based organisations, promoting appropriate referrals, as well as creating new referral pathways where possible.
10. As directed, to visit prisons in the south west to identify prisoners being released to the Bristol area who are motivated to change their lives, and are suitable for mentoring.
11. To establish relationships with prison staff within the chaplaincy, resettlement, substance misuse and careers service sectors, and prison officers, in order to obtain suitable referrals.
12. To offer informed and accessible signposting to relevant support services and to help mentors, referees and mentees to engage with the support available.
13. To keep up-to-date records for everyone we are working with on our online database.
14. To ensure that qualitative and quantitative data of our work is collected and shared within the team.
15. To comply with the latest GDPR data protection legislation.
16. With colleagues and Trustees to develop relationships with churches to facilitate support for the work of MentorMe and Sixty-One and to develop a base from which mentors will come forward.
17. When necessary, to assist the CEO and other staff in fundraising activities.
18. To assist with the Sixty-One social media presence.
19. To support any events that Sixty-One run and such other tasks as the CEO or Project Manager may reasonably require from time to time.
Please complete this, along with an equalities monitoring form, and return by midnight on Sunday 06/10/2024 (applications can be sent by post or email to info@sixty-one.org). It is important to refer to the person specification in the job description when completing section five of the application form.
Interviews will be held w/c Monday 14th October.
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