Are you a proactive, collaborative and compassionate individual with a proven record of working positively with socially excluded children and young people and the ability to engage successfully despite ‘challenging’ behaviour?  Do you have experience of delivering sessions to groups of young people?

If so, St Giles is looking for a SOS+ Mentor and Facilitator to provide one-to-one mentoring and group work sessions for children and young people at risk of serious youth violence, gang activity and exploitation

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Our successful candidate will be expected to establish positive and professional relationships with the children, young people, parents/carers and professionals accessing the service and to promote the value of lifestyle changes to those accessing the service.  You will facilitate group sessions and interactive workshops to children and young people on all aspects of gang involvement, violence and exploitation, plus deliver vital one-to-one mentoring sessions that tackle mentees perceptions of gang involvement, violence and exploitation.  These will encourage them to develop a positive self-identity, healthy relationships, to feel safe and to raise their aspirations.

We will also count on you to maintain accurate records of your mentoring work, session work and data collection and to contribute in multi-agency meetings, utilising expertise around lived experience and local knowledge. Complying with relevant safeguarding policies of the provision(s) and St Giles Trust. Ensuring that all systems are in place to protect the confidentiality of clients who use the service, and appropriate disclosure procedures are followed

What we are looking for

• Personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group (i.e. involved in gangs or knife crime).
• Proven experience of working in a high intensity environment, being self-motivating, with an ability to effectively manage your own wellbeing.
• Knowledge of the issues facing this client group, such as gangs, knife crime, social exclusion and isolation, child criminal exploitation and trauma.
• Knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding practices and policies.
• The ability to calculate risk and implement safety procedures when engaging with ability to confidently speak in front of large groups delivering key messages, following a session plan and hitting learning objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written.
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervision, season ticket loan and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion-confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, or neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

Please note St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

An Enhanced Child Workforce with Child Barred List DBS check is required for this role.

In your application form, please provide a written statement (maximum 1,000 words) showing how you meet the requirements of the role by addressing each of three-person specification areas: 1) Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications 2) Skills 3) Personal Qualities.

Closing date: Thu 30 July 2026 at 9 a.m.       

Interviews: Mon 03 August 2026 via Teams

This is a fixed term contract until 31.03.2027