Enduring Relationships Youth Mentor

Future of London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS

32 days annual leave

Remote/office-based blend

Season ticket loan

Career development

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and leisure discounts

Tax-free bikes

Job summary

Enfield Council is recruiting Experienced Youth Mentors in Enfield to join a newly established integrated multi-agency wrap around Family Help Hub and Enduring Relationships Hub.

You will deliver targeted youth mentoring interventions with young people aged 10-18, working alongside social workers and partner agencies to support planning and intervention and promote positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Deliver targeted and time-bound relationship-based, strengths-led youth mentoring interventions as part of a multi-disciplinary Hub.
• Support young people aged 10-18 where emerging or escalating needs are identified.
• Work alongside social workers, family help lead practitioners and partner agencies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to single, whole-family plans, ensuring the voice and needs of young people are central to assessment, planning and intervention.
• Engage directly with young people who may resist engagement through personalised youth work.
• Provide advocacy, mentoring, information, and guidance, plus enrichment activities and harm reduction advice.

Job description

Join Enfield’s Transformative Children’s Services

Enfield are looking to recruit experienced Youth Mentors to join our newly established integrated multi-agency wrap around Family Help Hub and Enduring Relationships Hub.

Youth Mentors Full -Time Salary Range SO2 £41,511 - £43,449

The Family Help Youth Mentors and Enduring Relationships Youth Mentors will deliver targeted and time-bound relationship-based, strengths-led youth mentoring interventions as part of a multi-disciplinary Hub, supporting young people aged 10-18 where emerging or escalating needs are identified.

Working alongside social workers, family help lead practitioners and partner agencies, the postholder will contribute to single, whole-family plans, ensuring the voice, experience and needs of young people are central to assessment, planning and intervention.

The Youth Mentors will work directly with young people (with an allocated caseworker in either the family help teams (Family Help Youth Mentor) or the children in care/leaving care teams (Enduring Relationships Youth Mentor)) who may resist engagement by positively engaging them in personalised and targeted youth work.

The Youth Mentors will provide a wide range of youth work interventions to support children including advocacy, mentoring, provision of information, advice and guidance, positive and enrichment activities and harm reduction advice and interventions.

The Youth Mentors will develop and maintain a professional relationship based on trust with the aim of helping children to aspire to achieving positive outcomes by reducing participation in risky behaviour, reducing likelihood of entering care, preventing placement breakdown and supporting positive reunification home from care.

We are looking for enthusiastic, able and experienced youth mentors who can demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children and show experience of being involved in applying a strength-based approach to supporting individual children to empower and affect change.

This is a great opportunity to join an excellent service that works together to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. Our leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

Enfield is committed to supporting staff to develop their skills and as such offers a comprehensive induction and a bespoke training programme available to all case holding practitioners. You will receive high-quality support from an experienced manager and given opportunities to contribute to service developments.

Enfield’s Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best, delivering high quality case work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information, please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/.

“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.

For further information please contact:

Anne Stoker Director of Transformation: Children’s Services at [e-mail].

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification, which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.

• A blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.

• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.

• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.

• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.

• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working.