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Job vacancies in our Mentoring Team

Professional Mentors

Hours variable
Required for work across a number of regions including Birmingham/Solihull, the Black Country, Central and South-west London, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside and Teeside. To support employability and training linked to clients on flexible new deal programmes with an emphasis on work in the music and performance industries.

Salary up to £21,000 (pro-rata)

Armstrong Learning is one of the UK’s only providers of specialist music industry training combined with employability support and forms part of the Armstrong Learning Group alongside Access to Music, the UK’s leading designer and provider of popular music education, training and consultancy.

You will:
Provide a range of mentoring and support services to clients, identifying and removing barriers to work, motivating and providing practical help or signposting, reviewing work focused action plans leading to progression into employment.

You are:
Flexible, organised, able to work to deadlines and an effective communicator, with a knowledge and experience of work with the long term unemployed and the issues faced. You will also hold, be working towards a recognised teaching qualification or Information Advice and Guidance qualification at level 3 or 4.

For an application pack contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it phone 0161 247 7738 or 0116 247 6880, write to us at Personnel, Armstrong Learning, 26 Hulme Street Manchester M1 5BW or go online at www.armstronglearning.co.uk or www.accestomusic.co.uk/about/vacancies.

Closing date: 14th Aug 09 but early applications welcome Download the how to apply and applicant guidelines.
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Mentoring Coordinator

Macclesfield, Cheshire and Warrington (ref: MCCW5)
Part time (min 3 days 22.5hours pw)

Macclesfield based, travel required across Cheshire and Warrington
  • Can you be a key player in a successful, high quality mentoring service for unemployed people, based in the Macclesfield and Cheshire and Warrington area?
  • Can you manage a caseload of clients, with different and often complex needs?
  • Do you understand the barriers which people face in getting back to work and can you help them move into, and stay in, work?
  • Are you a fantastic team worker, able to fit in and share in the enthusiasm of a team of coordinators, professional mentors and volunteers?
  • Can you inspire, motivate, guide and help people in a practical way?
  • Do you have excellent communication skills, enabling you to build the strongest working relationships with Jobcentre Plus staff and other providers, to recruit clients and engage with other partners?
Armstrong learning are searching for an enthusiastic, committed and skilled mentor, advice worker, or trainer, to deliver information sessions, recruit and manage a caseload of mentoring clients on a confidential, one to one basis, working closely with Jobcentre Plus staff and other agencies.

This position is subject to an enhanced CRB check.
We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

Hours of work
Part / 2- 3 days per week (15 - 22.5 hours equivalent).

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all. Applications from disabled people, and people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds are particularly welcome as these groups are currently under represented.
Closing date: 24th June 2009 Please apply by enclosing your CV and producing a statement, which indicates
  • How your skills and knowledge address each point of the person specification.
  • Please state your current availability / desired working patterns.
  • Please give details of your current salary.
  • Please give details of any notice period.
  • Please return the completed Equal Opportunities monitoring form.
Download the complete job description and person specification.
Download our equal opportunities and monitoring form.
Download our how to apply guide.

Professional Mentor

Hertfordshire, East of England
Part time (2 days 15 hours pw)
  • Can you be a key player in a successful, high quality mentoring service for unemployed people, based in the Hertfordhire area?
  • Can you work with a caseload of clients, with different and often complex needs, working as part of a team of coordinators, professional mentors and volunteers across the East of England?
  • Do you understand the barriers which people face in getting back to work and can you help them move into, and stay in, work?
  • Can you inspire, motivate, guide and help people in a practical way?
  • Do you understand the barriers which people face in getting back to work, and can you help them move into, and stay in, work?
Armstrong learning are searching for an enthusiastic, committed and skilled mentor, advice worker, or trainer, to deliver information sessions, recruit and manage a caseload of mentoring clients on a confidential, one to one basis, working closely with Jobcentre Plus staff and other agencies.

This position is subject to an enhanced CRB check.
We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

Hours of work
Part / 2 days per week (15 hours equivalent).

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all. Applications from disabled people, and people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds are particularly welcome as these groups are currently under represented.
Closing date: 18th June 2009 Please apply by enclosing your CV and producing a statement, which indicates
  • How your skills and knowledge address each point of the person specification.
  • Please state your current availability / desired working patterns.
  • Please give details of your current salary.
  • Please give details of any notice period.
  • Please return the completed Equal Opportunities monitoring form.
Download the complete job description and person specification.
Download our equal opportunities and monitoring form.
Download our how to apply guide.

Volunteer mentors, flexible hours, from 1 hour per week.

Opportunities across
  • Cheshire and Warrington
  • Norfolk
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Suffolk
  • South Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • Bedfordshire
Your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.

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