Y's Girls Volunteer Mentor

Central YMCA is transforming. This is an exciting time to join us as we look forward toward growth and progression and focus on our purpose to advance the education, health and wellbeing of our communities. We want to create improved access to life-changing opportunities and enable everyone to achieve their potential, live a fulfilled life and contribute positively to society.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Central YMCA is open to applications from all backgrounds. We are committed to championing equity, acceptance, and inclusion, and provide everyone who works with us the opportunity to reach their potential.

Our doors are open to all and if you connect with our mission, vision, and values, we welcome you to come and be part of our team.

If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to assist.

You don’t need any formal qualifications to be a mentor. You will need to have complete a PVG Scheme Record/DBS check that will be arranged for you by your Project Coordinator. What’s really important is that you’re a good listener and we encourage applications from people with lived experience of how race, gender, ability, poverty, mental health, sexuality etc can interact and impact upon the lives of girls and young women.

Our mentors are as diverse as the young people we work with and we welcome opportunities to celebrate our similarities and differences.

You will be able to reflect on times where you have faced challenges in life, with which you gained essential learning and understanding. By supporting your mentee to identify small, achievable goals you will help them experience the process of persevering, achieving and celebrating and this builds their resilience and sense of worth well beyond the mentoring relationship.

What can you expect as a volunteer at YMCA?

We are looking for volunteers who are eager to make a difference in their own community by supporting girls and young women to be their best through our award-winning Y’s Girls Mentoring project.

As a Volunteer Mentor you will regularly meet up with a young person offering a friendly ear, support and guidance and advice on making positive life choices. You will also build a relationship with the young person’s parents/guardians, although the main focus is the young person. Full training, support and on-going supervision is offered by Central YMCA.

Safeguarding responsibilities

• This role will involve daily contact with learners, and you will be engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
• All staff and volunteers have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, and/or vulnerable adults for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
• The Charity’s Safeguarding Policy is available from Central YMCA website.

Central YMCA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to successfully completing pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure, the receipt of satisfactory references, relevant original ID documentation and examination certificates.

Regulated activity: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Charity is therefore permitted to ask shortlisted applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) to assess their suitability to work with children. Should you be shortlisted, you will be required to complete a disclosure form prior to interview.

Do you have something to give back? Hit apply to register your interest - we look forward to hearing from you!