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About the Role
Advance is seeking x 5 Volunteer Peer Mentors to support young women and girls in the Maia Service. This role involves enabling survivors of domestic abuse to escape harm, build confidence, and thrive. You will provide support through 1-2-1 advocacy and group-work, contributing to the organisation's mission of empowering women and girls.
Responsibilities
- Provide 1-2-1 advocacy and support to young women and girls.
- Deliver group-work and workshops.
- Participate in Volunteer Mentor meetings, supervision, and training.
- Contribute to the development and expansion of Advance’s programme of support.
- Provide feedback, evaluation, and participate in research and focus groups.
Requirements
- Must be 18 years or older.
- Must have lived experience of domestic abuse and/or related challenges such as poor mental health, drug and alcohol use, financial difficulties, housing issues/homelessness, or exclusion from education or experience of the care system.
- Must be in a place in their own lives where they are not currently facing risk of harm or have ongoing support needs related to violence and abuse, current or alcohol use, or contact with the criminal justice system.
- Must commit to at least 6 months in the role.
- Must complete in-person & online Volunteer Mentor induction training.
- Must commit to 2-3 hours of mentoring per week.
- Must commit to 1-2 hours of Volunteer Mentor meetings, supervision and training per month.
- Must provide up-to-date CV and cover letter.
- Must apply via the job advert on the Advance careers page.
- Must pass references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Skills
- Active listening
- Boundary setting
- Maintaining relationships
- Safeguarding
- Trauma-informed approaches
Location
- Hammersmith
- Finsbury Park
- Stratford
Work Type
- Voluntary
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Volunteer
Salary/Compensations
- Unpaid
Benefits
- Initial in-person & online induction training
- Ongoing training updates and ‘refresher’ sessions
- Invitations to Advance Away Days, events and team meetings
- Team awards and acknowledgement days
- Access to individual and group supervision
- Opportunities to shape programme development
- Opportunities for progression
About the Company
- Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation established in 1998.
- Provides emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse.
- Supports women with short-term sentences to reduce offending.
- Believes in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives.
- Is a community-based organisation leading in best practice approaches.
- Works in close partnership with other agencies.
- Values include: listen and support, empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
Equal Opportunity
- This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
- Advance is committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seeks to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team.
- Policies and processes are in place to ensure all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.
- Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm.
- Expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment.
- Believes all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe.
- Follows rigorous safer recruitment practices, including pre-employment checks.
- Ensures all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training.