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Job description

Could you help someone change their life and avoid reoffending?

Belong’s vision is of hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. We inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime through restorative Justice, psychotherapy, mentoring, and training for criminal justice professionals.

We have exciting opportunities available for committed, compassionate people to volunteer as one to one mentors with us as part of Amplify, a new, specialised project working with young people in contact with the Criminal Justice System from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic backgrounds. Through reduce reoffending, improving wellbeing and increasing a sense of identity in participants, the service will Amplify the voices and the participation of people of colour from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds in their communities.

People from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds experience disadvantages at every stage of the Criminal Justice System, from over-representation, unequal treatment, and a lack of specific, relevant interventions.

The programme will work with mainly females (and a small number of males), aged 18-25 (and 17 year olds transitioning from youth services to adult probation), from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds in contact with the Criminal Justice System in the West Midlands. Participants will either be serving a sentence in the community, on licence, or in custody. Through Amplify, participants will access three strands of support concurrently: Family support, Mentoring and Creative Psychotherapy. The service will uniquely offer intersectional, gender-specific, and culturally appropriate support. The service will celebrate and nurture service users’ identity.

Mentors will work with young people either on licence in the community, on a suspended sentence in the community, or serving a prison sentence in a West Midlands or Derbyshire prison. Upon successful recrutiment, we will work with mentors to match them to a mentee in their local area.

One to one mentors will build a professional working relationship with young people as they serve their prison or community sentence and work towards a crime free future. Mentoring sessions will take place once per week or fortnight, for one to two hours per session. During the sessions volunteers will offer support to individuals to assist them to explore their identity; access education, training and employment; develop life skills; work through previous traumas and build positive relationships, for example with peers, family and within their community. Volunteers need to be able to commit to the role for at least one year. Mentoring sessions will take place during weekdays or weekends. 

Interviews for the role will take place via zoom or phone call prior to the training dates and selection for the role confirmed after participation in training.

Successful applicants will be invited to participate in an initial two-day training course in the West Midlands (location to be confirmed) from 9:30am-4pm on Saturday 15th June and Saturday 22nd June. Please note: spaces on the training course are limited and we may close the recruitment before the closing date if spaces become full.

Prison security vetting and/or an enhanced DBS check are required for this role and all volunteers will be supported to undergo this. After vetting processes are complete, further training will be provided at the prison in which mentors are volunteering, with a range of dates available.

Full support and supervision will be provided to volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

To apply, please send us your CV and covering letter as soon as possible, and by 16th May 2024 at 11.30pm.

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Posted on: 19 April 2024
Closing date: 16 May 2024 at 23:59
Tags: Support Worker

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