Youth Mentor & Intervention Specialist
Avenue Centre for Education, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3NJ20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
8 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Fixed Term until 31st March 2026, 3 days per week, negotiable.
Youth Mentor & Intervention Specialist job summary
Are you passionate about transforming the lives of vulnerable young people? Do you have the resilience, compassion, and skill to support those facing barriers to education, engagement, and safety?
The Avenue Centre for Education (ACE) is seeking a Youth Mentor & Intervention Specialist to join our dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Specialist Team (MDST). This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to work across a pioneering three-tier Alternative Provision model, supporting young people aged 11–16 at risk of exclusion and exploitation.
About the Role
As Youth Mentor & Intervention Specialist, you will:
Provide 1:1 and small group mentoring to young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
Design and deliver evidence-based interventions to address issues such as criminal exploitation, gang affiliation, and antisocial behaviour.
Work across ACE and Luton secondary schools, promoting reintegration and safeguarding.
Collaborate with staff, families, and external agencies in a trauma-informed, multi-agency framework.
This role is central to our early intervention strategy and offers a chance to directly influence positive outcomes for some of Luton’s most vulnerable young people.
The ideal candidate will have previous experience supporting children who have experienced difficulties in education, an understanding of the reasons why this may be the case and and how to start the process of personal growth. In this role you will be required to support small groups of learners delivering sessions which help them to integrate into their future educational provision. You will be focussed on ensuring that you are providing the best experience and care possible for the students.
We are looking for a candidate who:
- Has recent experience supporting children or young people with SEMH needs.
Understands the risks associated with exploitation and is confident working with those impacted.
Is able to build trusted relationships and act as a positive role model.
Can work flexibly across sites, both independently and as part of a multi-agency team.
Is committed to inclusive practice and safeguarding.
Desirable but not essential:
Background in youth work, education, social care or therapeutic support.
Knowledge of issues including child sexual exploitation, gang involvement, domestic abuse, or substance misuse.
Training in restorative practice or trauma-informed approaches.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the key skills and experience that are required for this role.
The role is fixed term until 31st March 2026 linked to funding from the DFE Change Programme.
ACE can offer the successful candidate the support from staff, parents and members (governors) who are enthusiastic, caring and committed to working as a team to achieve the best journey for our students at ACE. You will have the opportunity to develop new skills through guidance and support of the Senior Leadership Team. You will be able to enhance your career by enrolling on the school’s numerous training and CPD schemes that effectively progress the knowledge and skill set of our staff team.
Please ensure that your application addresses all areas of the Job Description and Person Specification. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found. Applicants for this public facing post will need to demonstrate the ability to converse, and provide effective help or advice, fluently in spoken English.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
Applicants for this public facing post will need to demonstrate the ability to converse, and provide effective help or advice, fluently in spoken English.
CV's will not be accepted for any posts based in school.
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 8th July 2025 at 12.00 am
Safeguarding Statement:
ACE is committed to safeguarding children and young people. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to child protection and/or safeguarding. A satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with a Children’s Barred List Check is required as a condition of employment. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted on shortlisted candidates to identify anything that may need further exploration with candidates. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Equal Opportunities Statement:
At the Avenue Centre we believe that all individuals are of equal value and we are committed to equal opportunities for all. All people who work and study in the school have the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, class, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief. To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this vacancy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Avenue Centre for Education
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 69 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avenue Centre for Education website
School location
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