Mentor Coordinator - Liberton High School - Edn27652

Children, Education and Justice Services

Mentor Coordinator
Liberton High School

Salary: £26,788 - £30,751 per year
Hours: 36 per week

The Mentor Co-ordinator will liaise with staff at Liberton High School and staff within the Mentoring Coordinator organisation to deliver the mentoring programme for pupils in S2-S6.

The successful candidate will show the following abilities:

• Build effective relationships with the young people in scope
• Build exceptional individual relationships with all care experienced young people, especially during primary school transitions and in S1 and S2 through an open door policy in school
• Actively support all young people in S2 to S6 scope to participate and to get the maximum benefits from their mentoring relationships.
• Ensure the young people benefit from all other aspects of the mentoring model including setting, experiencing and following their education/employment pathways; Talent Tasters; the Ambassador programme and other relevant 3rd party experiences that are on offer
• Produce case studies and good news stories utilising quantitative outcomes and qualitative feedback (with young person voice at the heart) to evidence progression, programme impact and best practice.
• Continue to keep in touch and, where appropriate, support young people in scope who don’t yet participate and/or are disengaged Mentor recruitment, training, engagement and support
• Consistently support and actively engage mentors throughout the length of their mentoring relationships
• Working with MCR regional team, Programme Manager and Mentor Services, help drive mentor recruitment to the targets needed for your school
• Where feasible Co-deliver Core Mentor Training.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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