Self Employed Youth Mentor
16 days ago
Hemel Hempstead
Job Title: Self-Employed Youth Mentor (Long-Term Engagement) Overview We are seeking committed and reliable Youth Mentors to provide consistent, long-term support to young people. Each mentor will be allocated a young person, with the expectation of building a trusted, stable relationship over time. This is not ad-hoc work — it requires continuity, accountability, and genuine commitment to positively impact a young person’s life. To act as a consistent, positive adult role model, supporting a young person’s personal development through regular, structured mentoring sessions and relationship-based practice. • Build and maintain a trusting, professional relationship with an allocated young person, • Deliver consistent daily / weekly sessions (1:1 or small group where required), • Provide emotional support, guidance, and positive challenge, • Support with confidence building, behaviour, education engagement, and life skills, • Create a safe, supportive environment where young people feel heard and respected, • Set goals and track progress over time, • Work collaboratively with families, schools, and professionals, • Maintain accurate records and uphold safeguarding responsibilitiesCommitment Expectations (Essential), • Ability to commit to regular, ongoing sessions with the same young person, • Understanding that consistency is critical to building trust and achieving outcomes, • Willingness to engage for a minimum agreed period (e.g. 3–6 months or longer), • Reliability — cancellations and inconsistency can negatively impact the young person, • Professional approach to boundaries and relationship-buildingKey Requirements, • Experience working with young people (mentoring, youth work, education, coaching, etc.), • Strong ability to build rapport and maintain professional relationships, • Understanding of trauma-informed or relationship-based approaches (desirable), • Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection, • Ability to work independently as a self-employed professional, • Patient, empathetic, and resilient, • Consistent and dependable, • Strong emotional intelligence, • Ability to challenge constructively while maintaining trust, • Passionate about long-term impact, not short-term intervention, • Self-employed / freelance basis, • Structured, regular sessions (typically weekly), • Long-term placements with individual young people, • Work delivered in schools, community settings, or agreed safe environments, • Competitive rates based on experience and assignment, • Ongoing, stable placements (not ad-hoc shifts), • Opportunity to build meaningful, lasting impact, • Continued opportunities across programmes, • Enhanced DBS check, • Safeguarding training, • Public Liability Insurance, • Right to work in the UK
