Are you compassionate, highly motivated, and determined? Could you dedicate yourself to enabling vulnerable and under-served young people to overcome traumatic childhood experiences, navigate complex life histories and become the best they can be?
Hours: 15 hours per week, including some evenings / weekends
Salary: £23,500FTE (Actual £9,527 pa)
Duration: 15 hrs a week. Initial 1-year fixed term contract. Plans to extend this, funding dependant.
The LCT’s mentoring programme is a 12-week programme that supports young people in a face to face 1-2-1 setting in the community. You’ll build relationships with young people 1-2-1 as their mentor, meeting them once a week. You will support them to gain confidence and resilience and navigate their way through challenges and help them to set goals and outline a personal development plan. You will be responsible for a caseload of young people averaging 5 young people at one time. You will liaise with key colleagues and partners, working collaboratively to ensure every young person we support feels heard, knows that they matter, and can aspire to a positive, happy and healthy future where they achieve their full potential.
You’ll also support delivery of our Life Skills Workshops by delivering a range of creative, appealing, rewarding and engaging activities under the set topics of Life Skills.
Life Chance Trust is a newly established charity and this role offers a rare chance to use your relational skills and talents, and your experience and ideas, to shape our activities and see both young people, and the organisation, grow
For an informal discussion about the role please email trust@lifechance.org.uk to arrange a conversation. If you believe you could bring something exciting to this role please email trust@lifechance.org.uk with a CV and covering letter detailing how you meet the JD and PS (approx. two A4 pages).
Closing date: 12pm 23rd April 2024
Interview Date: 8th May 2024 (College House, Newton Abbot)
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