Overview
Job title: Peer Mentor
Location: Haringey (N17), London – UK (NB this is 100% in-person role)
Salary: £29,000-£33,000 p.a.
Terms: Full time - 40 hours per week (including lunch break)
Sister System is an award-winning charitable organisation based in north London that works to bridge the gap between care-affected girls (13–24 years old) and mainstream society by providing unique accredited mentoring and educational programmes. The organisation's vision is to empower girls through equitable opportunities, while its mission is to work alongside them to enhance their mental resilience and self-belief.
Sister System is seeking a peer mentor.
The role of a peer mentor is a challenging and rewarding one that requires skill, time, passion, and knowledge of the sector, as well as a commitment to both the charity's objectives and the team. The successful candidate will be joining Sister System at a transformational time on their journey, which is both demanding and presents a unique opportunity for the successful candidate.
The role requires a dynamic, positive, and experienced individual who is passionate about ensuring that all young people can thrive and is well able to manage a complex caseload. This role is excellent for someone who is passionate, resilient, and committed to making a real, lasting difference for young girls and young women across the capital. The role requires someone who is solution-focused, tenacious, and has an appetite to be part of the change they want to see.
The main duties of the role include undertaking the agreed-upon role of peer mentor to deliver against Sister Systems Programmes , holding a complex caseload of care-affected young women, supporting the delivery of supervision, facilitating team meetings, and supporting the programme's lead in risk assessments, caseload referrals, and caseload management of the mentors and big sisters.
Required qualifications include an understanding of the care system statutory services and the wider eco-system that supports care affected young people, experience in delivering 1:1 and small group work to girls and young women (13-24 years), experience working within a contextual safeguarding context, experience working with social care and educational service providers (statutory and third sector), preferred experience of working with girls who have experienced CSE, mental unwellness, challenges around their emotional well-being, worklessness, or low educational attainment, experience of working as part of a multi-agency team,experience of advocating, mediating, and representing young people to achieve good outcomes for them, ability to engage and motivate young women towards achieving their potential, ability to lead and work productively as part of a team, will be flexible, adaptive, solution-focused, excellent communication and organizational skills, knowledge of Microsoft Office365 and CRM database, and lived experience of the care system.
The closing date for applications is May 31, 2024, and candidates must send a covering letter (expression of interest) stating how their experience and qualifications meet the requirements of this role. If you have what it takes, please email your expression of interest, clearly stating how your skills meet the criteria, along with your CV, to HR@sistersystem.org for a detailed job description.
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