Senior Practitioner, Volunteer Mentoring
Full time, permanent role from c.£34,000 depending upon experience
Deadline: Monday 14th Sept 2026 at 10am
Interviews: Week commencing 14th Sept 2026, Bath
We’re intensely proud of our Volunteer Mentoring service. Since 1998, we’ve been mobilising our community to get alongside young people who are facing the toughest of life challenges at home or school.
With our training, support and supervision, adult volunteer mentors work 1-1 with each child, providing a life-changing mix of time, listening, fun activities and new skills. Mentees tell us they feel happier, more confident, more able to engage with education and hopeful for their future.
Our staff love this work and stay with us a long time. So it’s a very special opportunity when a role becomes available delivering, managing and driving forward volunteer mentoring.
Could this be you?
We’re looking for a special person to be our next Senior Practitioner for volunteer mentoring for our older cohort (young people aged 11-25). This person will lead our delivery, motivate and manage the team, engage with adult volunteers and build key relationships in our community.
You’ll have at least 2 years’ professional experience in a similar field, and be ambitious to take significant responsibility. You’ll be confident interacting with adult professionals, and equally at home chatting with a teenager. Most of all, you’ll be driven to use your skills and energy to improve the life experiences of young people with unmet needs. See a full role / person profile here.
What’s this role all about?
This role involves managing the delivery of a funded project, ensuring caseloads are met and reporting on impact to funders. Along with daily casework, you’ll be onboarding appropriate adult volunteers, following a rigorous safer recruitment process while maintaining their enthusiasm and commitment. You’ll be maintaining careful records in our secure casework database. And you’ll have safeguarding responsibility for young people, supported by our designated safeguarding lead.
There’s working with colleagues to provide our engaging and well-regarded training, and collaborating with other Senior Practitioners to enhance practice, policy and procedures. And importantly, this role includes direct work with a small number of young people, their families and mentors, because that’s both the challenge and the fun bit.
Our work takes practitioners across Bath & NE Somerset including rural areas on a regular basis and includes transporting young people, so it’s essential you have a full driving licence and a well-maintained vehicle with business insurance (mileage is paid at HMRC rates).
What can you expect in return?
This is a senior role in a small organisation, so you can expect to be heard and to influence decisions. Mentoring Plus has a solid reputation among schools and referring organisations, so expect a strong sense of agency externally too. Within clear policies and practice models, there’s always scope for individual creativity and autonomy, and we value curiosity, new approaches and compassionate challenge.
Our friendly staff team is a great source of knowledge, kindness and encouragement. We take internal management and external clinical supervision very seriously to ensure everyone feels fully supported. There’s budget for annual training, some mandatory but the rest to follow individual professional passions.
We work hard, but we respect each other’s personal time. Your work phone goes off at the end of the working day. You have time for lunch away from your desk, and a chat over a cuppa with your team. Subject to policy, you can work away from the office when it suits and adjust your hours to work for you.
A sector-competitive package includes pension, 25 days’ initial paid leave plus Christmas office closure, and an Employee Assistance Programme including online GP and counsellor access. Our Bath youth hub premises offer free parking, pool and air hockey tables, a lounge, garden, ball court and fully equipped kitchen.
To apply please download and complete this application form. Submission details are below. We cannot accept an application in any other format. Please do not send a CV.
Important: we operate an anonymised shortlisting process and can only base shortlisting decisions on the information provided in your application. Please take the opportunity in your application to make clear how your skills and experience fit the role and person specification, and do not assume we can infer this e.g. from a previous job title.
Please send your completed application to jess.watson@mentoringplus.net by Mon 14th Sept 2026 at 10am.
Questions about this role? Please email inspire@mentoringplus.net and we will get in contact ASAP.
Mentoring Plus is committed to maximising inclusion irrespective of age, gender identity, 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 free parking and are wheelchair accessible.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Safer Recruitment procedures will be followed including an enhanced DBS check and employment references taken and verified.