Main tasks
- Understanding the circumstances of people we support and how this role contributes to their success.
- Helping people to understand their goals, options, and possible next steps
- Offering guidance, support, encouragement, and a safe space for people to discuss their personal and development needs and how to progress to meet them.
- Jointly agreeing tasks and actions to undertake between 1-to-1 meetings.
- Providing active support as necessary, such as reviewing documentation, responding to email, signposting where to find useful resources, networking connections; etc.
- In conjunction with your mentee, producing mentor updates, sharing progress, and identifying any significant challenges where additional Depaul UK support is needed.
- Sharing relevant learning, materials and useful resources that may benefit Depaul clients and our work.
- If desired, contributing to other areas of Depaul UK’s work and community as opportunities arise.
Skills, attitudes and knowledge
- Building trust with young people from a range of backgrounds – mentoring skills, great communicator, positive, encouraging, able to give and receive constructive corrective feedback and reinforce learning and progress.
- Being a role model with experience or a growth and progress story that young people can relate to.
- Experience of job searches, application process, interview experiences
Support, training and commitment
Support and supervision
The mentor will be line managed by a member of the Steps to Success team, and supported also by Depaul UK’s Volunteer team.
Induction and training
All mentors with receive an induction to Depaul UK and an induction to specific to your mentor role
Commitment
Flexible. A minimum of 1 hour per month. This could be evenings/daytime/weekends to suit both mentor and mentee.
If you have not been an active in your mentoring role for 3 months we will contact you to see if you wish to continue and if you have not been active for 6 months your role will be ended. You could then re-apply for any volunteering at Depaul again going through the full volunteer recruitment process.
Benefits of the role
- Travel expenses to and from the project, travel between projects, and all genuine out-of-pocket expenses, are reimbursed.
- While volunteering at the project, volunteers have full liability insurance cover.
- There are appreciation events to recognise the important contribution that volunteers make
- Personal & professional development through training, support and ongoing evaluation
- Depaul can provide a reference after 6 months active continuous volunteering
- Contribute to a project that really does make a difference to the lives of young people.
THE DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE – DISCLOSURE
Depaul UK aims to promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. Depaul UK welcomes applications from diverse candidates. Criminal records will be taken into account for requirement purposes only when the conviction is relevant.
As Depaul UK meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013) by SI 2013 1198’. All applicants who are offered volunteering may be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure & Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed
We kindly request no contact from recruitment or media agencies.
