Youth Mentor
XLP
To build a trusted, one-to-one relationship with a young person, helping them recognise their strengths, build confidence, and take positive steps toward their future. Mentors are the steady, caring adults who walk alongside young people through both challenges and successes, offering consistency and encouragement.
Role Aim To build a trusted, one-to-one relationship with a young person, helping them recognise their strengths, build confidence, and take positive steps toward their future. Mentors are the steady, caring adults who walk alongside young people through both challenges and successes, offering consistency and encouragement. Aims and Expectations At XLP, mentoring is about long-term relationships that bring hope and stability. You will meet regularly with a young person over the course of one year, offering a safe space to talk, set goals, and grow. Your consistency matters! Many of the young people we support have had adults come and go in their lives, so showing up regularly is one of the most powerful things you can do. You do not need to have all the answers. What matters most is your ability to listen, be patient, and offer encouragement. Mentors are asked to meet their mentee weekly or fortnightly for about an hour and a half, maintaining open communication with their Mentor Specialist throughout the year.
Advice, Information & Support,Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Community Work,Youth Work
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Key Tasks and Responsibilities • Build a positive, trusting relationship with a young person through regular meetings in an agreed, safe, and public setting. • Listen carefully and help them set achievable goals in education, wellbeing, or personal growth. • Encourage them to identify their strengths and celebrate their progress. • Attend supervision, training, and reflection sessions to develop your practice and ensure safeguarding is maintained. • Keep clear records of sessions where required and share feedback or concerns promptly with your Mentor Specialist. • Model reliability, respect, and appropriate boundaries at all times.
Volunteers in this role will gain a range of meaningful benefits, including professional references, access to upskilling and ongoing training and an enhanced DBS check. You’ll have the chance to build a real community with other volunteers, contribute to local neighbourhoods and take part in networking and celebration events that recognise your contribution and help you to grow personally and professionally.
3 hours (minimum of once a month)
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Multiple locations across Tower Hamlets
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