Aberdeen Priority Families

Young Person Mentor

Be rewarded and have new experiences, volunteer with us as an Mentor.

Can you:

• Work on a one to one basis with a secondary school child aged 11-16yrs for a full year.
• Meet the child every week, outside of school hours or at weekends for 2 hours+. 
• Offer problem free time away from their issues, motivational support and guidance
• Engage with the child in recreational/educational and interesting activities to open the child to new experiences to achieve their set goals. 
• To challenge negative behaviour and to participate in whole group activities with other mentees and their mentors.

 What you can expect

• Participate in meetings to set goals and targets for the mentoring year.
• Provide emotional and practical support to the child. Giving them good sound appropriate advice.
• Selecting your weekly activities with the child, working within your set budget.
• Complete plans for each session you have together and email them to your volunteer coordinator on a weekly basis.
• Speak with the parent/carer when dropping child back home, focusing upon the positives of the child’s behaviour, so the child can hear good things being said about them.
• Feedback any concerns you may have about the wellbeing of the child to your volunteer coordinator or project manager asap.
• Attend monthly supervision sessions with your volunteer coordinator

What we can offer:

• Gaining valuable social care experience, working with children and their families 
• Wonderful opportunity and very beneficial for students or people looking to study and work in the social care sector.
• Learning about how best to support children living in difficult situations, whilst being fully supported in your practice.
• Improving your employability skills for future employment
• Improving your confidence to work with children and their families
• Being actively involved in your local community
• Meeting new people, making new friends
• Gaining a sense of pride and self-worth and feeling good about just 'giving something back'

Action for Children does what’s right, does what’s needed and does what works.

Aberdeen Priority Families Service adopts a whole family approach to supporting and enabling families with multiple and complex needs to improve their life outcomes.