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Volunteering Matters
- VO98026
Would you like to make a difference to New Scots, Migrants, Refugee families in your community?
Would you like to help tackle Child Poverty?
We have the right opportunity for you!
Volunteering Matters is now recruiting volunteer mentors for our Parental Employability Project to help build resilience and aspirations to move parents towards and enter employment. While our staff will be on hand to help you provide employability specific support to parents, your role as a mentor will be focused on developing additional skills and overcoming personal barriers to facilitate their entry into the job market. More specifically, you might be supporting your mentee with confidence building, communication skills, social skills, proactiveness, future plans and aspirations, accessing local community groups. No previous experience or knowledge required, just a willingness to make a difference to families in your community.
We especially welcome applications from mentors that have direct or indirect lived experience of any of the mentioned barriers and struggles and feel ready to provide friendly guidance to someone who is on their employment journey. We welcome mentors with additional languages.
You will be ideally a flexible, patient and reliable individual with strong people skills. Before you start, we will invite you to attend training, aimed at providing you with all the necessary tools and knowledge to carry out your mentoring role safely and knowingly.
You will also have multiple opportunities to meet with the mentor project worker in 1:1 meetings and go through any questions or doubts you may have before you start.
Experience required
No experience required, training will be provided.
Travel details
We support families within the city of Edinburgh
Travel expenses
Travel expenses are fully reimbursed
Support
Training details
Full induction and ongoing training provided
Restrictions
Minimum age: 18
Availability
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Frequency & commitment
This is a fully flexible role
Volunteers (aged 18-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.
Find out more
Please fill out this form to register your interest in the opportunity Volunteer Mentor (Edinburgh) with Volunteering Matters
Your email address and phone number will only be used by the organisation/TSI you are contacting to discuss in more detail the opportunity you are enquiring about.
Your details and message will be sent to:
John Brown, Volunteering Matters
John Brown, Volunteering Matters
Email address: john.brown@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
Thank you for registering your interest in Volunteer Mentor (Edinburgh) with Volunteering Matters.
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