Youth Services Mentor – Malicious Comms

Salford Foundation are seeking to recruit a mentor to join their Targeted Youth Team.

This role supports young people who have been identified as needing interventions around malicious communications. This role involves the delivery of our Mal Comms mentoring programme which is a ten week 1 to 1 mentoring programme with the goals of:

• Educating young people ages 10-17 about malicious communications:
• What ‘malicious communications’ means, forms of malicious communication, online risks and safety, and laws around online communications.
• Raising awareness among young people of online safety practices and help them to adopt a healthy digital diet.
• Empowering young people to protect themselves online and report concerns.

This material has been developed into a 10-week session plan; however, there is some flexibility within the material for the Mentor to adapt the order of, or focus given to each session, depending on the presenting needs of the individual young person.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Delivery of 10 week mentoring programme with young people referred with malicious communications concerns
• Facilitating referral procedures and developing a close partnership with partners
• Ensuring the support for the client is coherent, co-ordinated and consistent
• Engaging in multi-agency work to meet the needs of young people
• Monitoring of progress and outcomes including liaison with parents/carers
• Delivering mentoring sessions with young people as well as completing outcome monitoring forms with all young people being supported on the project
• 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

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by young people
• Knowledge of the context of Greater Manchester in relation to young people
• Knowledge of support services for young people and their families
• Understanding of Child Protection, health and safety, and anti-discriminatory practices

Experience

• Minimum 1 year experience supporting vulnerable young people
• Experience of working in education or community organisations
• Experience completing detailed case notes to a high standard
• Managing projects to deadlines

Skills

• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• A commitment to your own personal and professional development
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent standard of both verbal and written communication
• Ability to use MS Teams and Outlook competently

Special Conditions

• Successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and require 2 satisfactory references
• Driving licence and own car to use for business use essential