Advantage Mentoring Mentor

Who We Are

Tottenham Hotspur Foundation (the Foundation) is a registered charity and the community arm of Premier League football club, Tottenham Hotspur. The Club, through the Foundation, seeks to use the power and unique appeal of football to provide opportunities that change lives throughout its local community.

The Foundation is based at the Grade II-listed 18th century Percy House on Tottenham High Road – painstakingly restored by the Club as part of the wider sport-led regeneration of the area.  We are driven by a passion for creating positive change in people’s lives within an area of significant socio-economic deprivation, yet where a vibrancy and richness of talent and ambition exists.  The Foundation harnesses and builds on this through a range of projects and initiatives to pursue, achieve and sustain desired impacts and outcomes, utilising partnerships within the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors.

The Foundation is seeking a THF Coach to support delivering high quality coaching sessions to participants within our Fair Play Football Project, Health and Wellbeing project, Football and Sport programmes.

The Role

This role is responsible for providing a 1:1 youth work mentoring service supporting a caseload of 10 young people at any one time (across each borough of Haringey, Enfield & Barnet), with each young person being mentored for up to 6 months. They will work closely with partner agencies and their local NHS Trust to recruit young people on to programme, identify suitable progression routes and development opportunities that focus on the following to support young people including but not limited to; health and wellbeing, life skills and education and employability.

It is assumed that the majority of mentoring will take place in the afternoons/evenings due to young people’s commitments although some might take place during school/working hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit participants on to programme to be assessed by CAMHS clinician before starting programme
• Ensure that all young people are contacted within two working days of the CAMHS handover meeting
• Meet with the young person and co-design a personal plan based around Goal Based Outcomes
• Develop positive relationships with young people through a variety of youth work styles/methodologies
• Support young people to access internal and external programmes in line with their needs and interests
• Liaise with project leads to ensure young people are fully supported within their chosen programmes including support with resources
• Deliver mental wellbeing support for young people and manage a caseload, providing support at suitable times for the referral either face to face or virtually
• Develop and promote support for parents/guardians/carers so that they feel more confident in supporting their child/young person with their mental health and wellbeing
• Establish, maintain and develop effective partnership working with stakeholders including relevant external agencies and organisations
• Complete monitoring, evaluation and session recordings using internal systems, including contributing to the project monthly reports via Upshot as directed by the Advantage Mentoring CIC Regional Project Manager
• Ensure that all delivery, for which you are responsible, complies with all health and safety and safeguarding requirements including the production of individual risk assessments
• Attend all scheduled supervision, meetings and training events

What you will bring

• A minimum level 2 in Youth Work, Mentoring and Safeguarding qualification or equivalent
• Experience supporting delivery on projects
• Experience in 1-2-1 work/mentoring
• Experience of working with young people aged between 12-18
• Hold a current Emergency First Aid Certificate
• Hold a current Safeguarding Children certificate
• Mental Health Awareness training
• Demonstrate a good understanding of how to engage young people
• Demonstrably puts young people first and works in a person-centred way
• Experience of partnership/inter-agency working as part of a team around complex young people
• Commitment to diversity, equal opportunities and inclusivity
• An understanding of the issues and barriers impacting young people, especially those impacted by the pandemic

Qualifications & Experience

• Integrity – being transparent, responsible and trustworthy
• Behaving in an honest and ethical manner, serving the community to the best of our ability
• Inclusive - recognising and respecting everyone’s value
• Providing an accessible and welcoming environment
• Continuously improve - striving for excellence driving development through learning
• Maximising opportunities to fulfil potential and be prepared to take risks
• Collaboration - working together internally and externally
• Recognising the benefits of a multi-organisational approach to our community and workforce
• Inspiring - creating a culture where people prosper
• Providing a safe and enjoyable environment supporting goals and aspirations

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our participants and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates are subject to enhanced DBS checks including the child’s and adult’s barred list checks, satisfactory references and a UK Right to Work check as part of safer recruitment procedures.  

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.