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Senior Youth Mentor
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Senior Youth Mentor – Croydon / South London
Salary: £28,000 per annum (£35,000 FTE)
Hours: 30 hours per week | 4 days
Location: Croydon / South London
Contract: Fixed-term
Application deadline: Sunday 20 September 2026, 11:59pm
Interviews: Thursday 24 & Friday 25 September 2026
Preferred start: Monday 2 November 2026, or earlier by mutual agreement
About MENT4
MENT4 is a youth mentoring organisation supporting young people across Croydon and South London. We work through trusted relationships, one-to-one mentoring, schools, community settings and creative programmes to help young people grow in confidence, develop emotional resilience, make positive choices and discover their purpose.
As MENT4 enters its next phase of growth, we are looking for an exceptional Senior Youth Mentor to become one of our leading frontline practitioners.
About the role
This is not a desk-based management role. You will spend the majority of your working week directly engaging young people through one-to-one mentoring, school-based provision, community activity, group interventions and MENT4 partner settings.
You will independently manage interventions from referral through to completion, maintain excellent safeguarding and reporting standards, represent MENT4 confidently with schools and professionals, and help strengthen mentoring practice across the organisation.
At MENT4, leadership doesn't mean moving away from young people. Our senior practitioners lead from the frontline.
Key responsibilities
You will:
- Deliver high-quality, relationship-based one-to-one mentoring.
- Manage a varied caseload across schools, community and referral-based settings.
- Develop and deliver structured mentoring interventions, typically lasting 16–24 weeks.
- Facilitate small-group mentoring, youth-development activities and workshops.
- Maintain high-quality case notes, progress reviews and closure reports.
- Communicate professionally with schools, social workers, parents/carers and other agencies.
- Maintain excellent safeguarding and contextual safeguarding practice.
- Represent MENT4 independently within schools and community settings.
- Model excellent practice and provide informal support to developing Youth Mentors.
- Contribute to MENT4's training, resources, programme development, evaluation and wider organisational development.
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The role does not initially carry formal line-management responsibility. The emphasis is on practice leadership and frontline delivery.
About you
We're looking for someone with significant experience working directly with young people and strong experience in youth mentoring, youth work or comparable relational interventions.
You will need:
- Strong safeguarding knowledge and professional judgement.
- The ability to build trusted relationships with young people, including those who may be disengaged or difficult to reach.
- Experience independently managing young-person cases or interventions.
- Strong written communication and professional reporting skills.
- Confidence working with schools, social workers, families and other professionals.
- Experience facilitating groups, workshops or youth-development activities.
- Strong organisation, accountability and reliability.
- The maturity to represent MENT4 independently.
- Experience supporting young people affected by exploitation, serious youth violence, offending, exclusion or contextual safeguarding concerns would be particularly valuable.
- Relevant youth work, mentoring, teaching, social care or counselling qualifications are desirable.
Benefits & working at MENT4
- 5 weeks annual leave per year, pro rata, including one compulsory week between Christmas and New Year.
- Induction, mandatory training, supervision and reflective practice.
- Ongoing professional development.
- Flexible or remote working for appropriate non-delivery duties where agreed.
- Reimbursement of reasonable and approved work-related expenses.
- Pension arrangements confirmed within the employment offer and contract.
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The role requires regular travel across Croydon and South London. A driving licence or personal vehicle is not an essential requirement.
How to apply
Please email your CV and a supporting statement outlining:
- Your experience working with young people.
- Your approach to mentoring and safeguarding.
- Why you believe you are suited to the Senior Youth Mentor role.
Send applications to: luke.peters@ment4.org
Deadline: Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11:59pm.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview on 24 or 25 September 2026. The selection process will include an interview and may include a practical youth-work or safeguarding scenario. The successful candidate will be subject to satisfactory references, right-to-work checks and an Enhanced DBS check appropriate to the role.
Safeguarding, equality & applicant privacy
MENT4 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from candidates with diverse professional, cultural and lived experiences.
Information submitted as part of your application will be used for recruitment and selection purposes and handled in accordance with MENT4's data protection and privacy procedures. Recruitment information will only be accessed by those involved in the recruitment process and will not be used for unrelated purposes.
Please do not include unnecessary sensitive personal information in your application.
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