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Permanent PAYE c.22.5 days per week
Flexible hours and hybrid working
From £16 per hour depending on experience

Could your creativity, relationship building and team management skills make a real difference to local children and young people?

Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.

Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.

Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.

We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.

Why we need your skills

Mentoring Plus currently raises about half its income through charitable sources, and with demand at an all-time high, we’re ambitious to deliver more support.

The charity has a strong record of winning funds from grants and trusts and community sources, and maintains comprehensive impact data, assets and information resources to share with funders.

We’re now looking for an energetic fundraising professional keen to help shape our future by taking our fundraising forward, planning and implementing effective events and campaigns supported by persuasive communications across all channels.

You’ll be at the heart of a small, friendly and committed team and working to maintain and build charitable income from all sources. This role needs your creativity, knowhow, planning skills, networking and team co-operation to really make a difference to young people in our region.

With support from the whole team and leadership group, you’ll apply your relevant skills, experience and management strengths to planning and implementing an agreed strategy across all funding sources, taking personal responsibility for fundraising from individuals and businesses.

You’ll help build and maintain relationships with key donors, representing our work and ensuring young people are heard. You’ll ensure we’re accountable for our impact with effective impact reporting and evaluation. You’ll help shape a multi-channel communications strategy in the best interests of our beneficiaries. And you’ll support the implementation of new and developing earned income streams in support of our work

We’re supported by a skilled Trustee board offering practical help, advice and scrutiny, and our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal development, including appropriate training and wellbeing support.

Our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal support, including regular reflective practice supervision. We aim to develop staff, giving them scope to build skills and influence decision-making.  

You’ll need to be in our Bath office (which has free parking) regularly but can work from home in between. Your hours can be worked flexibly by agreement e.g. long / short days, different school holiday hours etc. 

If you fit this bill and want to make a real difference to young people struggling with tough challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Please download this job description and person specification. 

We operate Safer Recruitment guidelines for all staff so we’ll then need you to complete and return this application form (submission details are included in the form).  

Application deadline: 10am Mon 22nd Sept 2025
Interviews planned in the week following

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar. We cannot accept a CV or an application in another format. 

Permanent PAYE c.15 hours/wk
Flexible hours, hybrid working
From £14.40 per hour depending upon experience

Make a real difference in this community-focused fundraising role

Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.

Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.

Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.

We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.

How your skills can make a difference

This is an exciting, flexible opportunity to join a small and committed fundraising team at Mentoring Plus. We’re looking for someone who is a confident event organiser and relationship builder. As part of an energetic team, you’ll be responsible for a number of key fundraising events over the year, while supporting campaigns, networking and enterprise projects in between.

You'll support the organisation to engage community fundraisers and donors to maximise unrestricted funding from our community.

With the support of the team, you'll plan, promote and implement keynote fundraising events to raise funds. You'll apply commercial nous and creativity to support the delivery of enterprise activities.

And you'll connect the charity to community volunteers, advocates and supporters and positively influence the community’s awareness and perception of our work.  

There's a detailed job description and role profile here. If you think you could fit the bill, we'd love to receive a completed application form from you. Submission details are in the form. Please note that we operate Safer Recruitment procedures and cannot accept an application in any other format.

Application deadline: 10am Monday 22nd Sept 2025

Interviews planned in the week following

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar.

Mentoring Plus is committed to maximising inclusion irrespective of age, gender identity, heritage, ethnicity, background, life experiences, disabilities, learning difficulties, lifestyle, beliefs etc, provided that individuals are able to meet the requirements of the role with appropriate support. We operate a strict equal opportunities policy for both adults and young people. Our central Bath premises have parking and are wheelchair accessible.

Safer Recruitment procedures will be followed including an enhanced DBS check and employment references taken and verified.

PAYE c.30 hours per week, termtime-plus (41 weeks per year).
Based Bath and working across Bath & NE Somerset. Some hybrid working and scope for flexible hours
From £14 per hour dependent upon experience, plus pension (FTE from £27.3k)

This role is offered on a fixed-term contract to 31 July 2026 initially while an interim project structure is implemented. Subject to funding, a permanent contract is likely to be offered in its place.

Youth charity Mentoring Plus supports young people aged 5-25 across several projects, all with the aim of offering positive 1-1 mentoring and opportunities to help build confidence, self-esteem, engagement with education and emotional wellbeing. Demand for our services has never been higher, and we currently have an opportunity to join our highly respected team of professional practitioners.

Our Practitioners are the professionals who make our work accessible and safe: receiving referrals, getting to know the young person, matching them with a mentor and supporting the relationship. You’ll be supervising the adult mentors, following up safeguarding concerns and representing the young person’s interests in multi-agency support processes.

Our mentoring services offer 1-1 community-based mentoring to young people aged 7-25 facing significant challenges in education, at home, with peers or with mental wellbeing. Young people are matched with trained adult mentors for weekly 1-1 mentoring sessions.

Young people are quick to appreciate that mentors are focused on them and don’t have a ‘script’, which helps quickly build trust and playful communication. With practitioner support our mentors show imagination, energy and insight, helping each mentee child feel more confident and prepared for the future.

In this role you’ll need to build a rapport with families (though our support is focused on the child), schools and fellow professionals. You’ll be part of the team delivering mentor training periodically, and offering inspiring group activities in school holidays. You’ll be spending plenty of time mentees in assessment, often involving sport, art, cookery, wildlife, board games or whatever else they want to do!

It’s fast-moving, rewarding work where hearing a tough life story will be rapidly followed by a fun meetup with a young person. Practitioners experience the reward of both helping young people directly and enabling adult mentors to do the same.

Role profile

You’ll need some experience in an equivalent role, which could be in the education, healthcare, social care, voluntary or similar sectors. You’ll need confidence in your own practice with young people needing extra support, but it’s vital you also enjoy supporting adults to reflect on theirs, building their knowledge and abilities.

Empathy and warmth are essential when working with young people and families, and so are clear, compassionate communication with fellow professionals and the ability to keep accurate records on our secure casework database. We serve a broad geographic area including rural communities, so a full driving licence, access to a well-maintained car and business insurance are essential for this role.

As you’d expect, we look after our professionals with regular management supervision and monthly clinical supervision. We offer regular training, practice sharing and a commitment to staff wellbeing and development. Our small and friendly team comprises like-minded individuals all motivated to help young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for the future. Some home-based working is possible (not 100%).

How to apply

If you fit this bill and want to make a real difference to young people struggling with tough challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Please download a job description and person specification here.

We operate Safer Recruitment guidelines for all staff so we’ll need you to complete and return this application form (submission details are included in the form).

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar. We cannot accept a CV or an application in another format.

Deadline for applications: Mon 22nd Sept 10am. Interviews are planned during the week following.

Are you seeking a fulfilling and flexible way to make a difference in your community?

Join us as a volunteer mentor and transform the lives of young people in Bath & North East Somerset.

As a volunteer mentor, you will be matched with a young person aged 7 to 25 who could benefit from a positive role model. Each week, you will spend one to two hours together exploring interests, trying new activities, and having fun while offering support and encouragement.

For children and young people facing challenges at home, at school, or in their community, your time and kindness can have a lasting impact on their happiness and wellbeing.

Interested?

If you are kind, empathetic, and ready to give 1-2 hours each week, we would love to hear from you.

Find out more here or call our volunteer coordinator, Chris Hart, to discover if mentoring is right for you: 01225 429 694

No experience required. We provide:

• Full training and ongoing support - next training: Sat 4 + 11 October in Bath
• Activity budget and expenses
• Flexibility - choose when and where you volunteer
• A connected community of volunteers with socials and newsletters

If you're looking to do some amazing this year, join us!