Mentor Lead

Mentor Lead

College location: East Surrey College/John Ruskin College

Salary : £36,000 per annum

Hours: Monday and Friday - 8:45 am to 5: 00 pm

Do you have the experience to lead and develop a mentoring provision that truly makes a difference to young people? If yes, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for a Mentor Lead to drive a high-quality, targeted mentoring offer across East Surrey College and John Ruskin College, supporting students at risk of becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), and helping them build confidence, independence and employability skills. This is a key role within our Inclusion and Wellbeing team, where you will lead mentoring initiatives that improve student engagement, attendance, retention and progression particularly for vulnerable learner groups. You will coordinate a structured mentoring approach, oversee interventions, and work closely with safeguarding, curriculum and student support teams to ensure every student feels supported and able to succeed.

The successful candidate must have:

• Relevant qualification in mentoring, youth work, education, wellbeing or in a related area or willing to work towards one
• Experience working with young people in an education, youth work or support setting
• Knowledge of strategies to improve student engagement, attendance and retention
• Understanding of safeguarding and child protection duties and procedures
• Strong report writing skills, with the ability to present clear summaries, insights and recommendations

Please refer to the attached JD & PS document for the full list of qualifications, knowledge and experience required for this role.

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such as an excellent pension scheme, generous holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

• Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.