Paul Lavery Support Beds Agency Mentor Application

Information & Application for role of Self - Employed Agency Mentor
Please take a few moments to read the Job Description and Acceptable Standards information before progressing to the application to be sure this is the right role for you.
PLS Job Description

Position Title: Self - Employed Agency Mentor

Goal Of The Position: To develop positive, constructive, professional and meaningful relationships with young people to help them move forward in life.

Role: The Mentor's role is to support their mentees by -
- Empowering them to resolve current issues and to develop coping strategies for the future.
- Provide a model for a healthy, trusting relationship through clear communication and setting appropriate boundaries.
- Acknowledging their strengths, talents and gifts and encouraging them to find ways to use them.
- Be an active listener and offer support and encouragement where appropriate.
- Engage in activities of interest.
- Support, making positive choices in life and to become more reflective. (This list is not exhaustive).
Responsibilities:
- Safeguarding the young person.
- Maintaining confidentiality.
- Provide clear communication and/or reports with the family, caseworker and other professionals in the young person's network.
Stages of Application:
- Complete online application form.
- Confirm / Provide Proof of Right To Work in the UK Status.
- Provide 2 professional references. One must be your last employer.
- Arrange and complete interview.
- Give consent for background checks.
- Evidence successful completion of basic Safeguarding, First Aid and Health & Safety training as well as required documentation.
Required Documentation:
- Enhanced DBS registered on the Update Service.
- Full UK Driver's Licence.
- Car Insurance with Business Cover.
- Valid MOT.
- Breakdown Cover.
- Liability Insurance.
Time Commitment: As an agency mentor this will be down to your own availability (our work can be at any time of day).

Where will the work be?:
- Predominantly Bedfordshire based.
- In the community.
- In a young person's home environment.
- School sites.
- Residential childrens homes.
- Hospitals.
- Sports environments.
Benefits of being a Self - Employed Mentor:
- Freedom to choose your own hours / work patterns.
- Make a difference in the life of a young person.
- Learn about yourself, personal development.
- Contribute and give back to the community
- Have fun!

Acceptable Standards

At Paul Lavery Support (PLS) we aim to support and mentor some of the country’s most vulnerable and challenging young people in a way that not just meets expectations but surpasses them. We want young people to be the absolute best version of themselves and by supporting them to grow we can affect positive change in the world as well as the specific young person we are working with. This is to be used as a guide for all agency staff.
- Every colleague in the agency must have an Enhanced DBS on the Update Service.
- Every colleague in the agency must have up to date and appropriate Safeguard training and certificate.
- Every colleague in the agency must have up to date and appropriate First aid training and certificate.
- Every colleague in the agency must have up to date and appropriate Health and Safety training and certificate.
- Every colleague in the agency must have up to date and appropriate personal liability insurance.
- Every colleague in the agency must have an up to date child protection policy to demonstrate safe working practices. (Draft CP policy can be offered on request).
- Every colleague will complete required training courses in accordance with the needs of our young people.
Below are a few areas I want to highlight for people to remember whilst carrying out our valuable work and the way in which we live our lives. I am not here to demand anything and not here to tell people how to conduct themselves as you are all agency staff and fully responsible for your own actions. However, any breaches of the below can lead to your services not being used by this agency.
- Agency staff should not smoke in front or around our young people and their families and should not buy or give items of this nature to them.
- Agency staff should not buy or consume energy drinks or alcohol around young people and their families.
- Agency staff should not engage in any activities or actions that are deemed inappropriate as laid out in safeguard / child protection training.
- Agency staff should not use inappropriate or rude / sexual / aggressive language in or around young people and their families.
- Agency staff should not allow public access to their social media platforms and should remember to keep any posts or engagements appropriate and within the laws of the land.
- Agency staff should not use their mobile phone for personal use whilst engaged in a session.
- Agency staff should not engage in any activities or behaviours that may seem inappropriate or illegal.
- Agency staff should not force or coerce any young person or their families into any actions, behaviours, or belief changes.
- Agency staff should not carry young people or their family members in a vehicle that is not legal or safe as per legal minimum standards.
- Agency staff should not discuss young people’s situations with anyone outside of the specific professional network.
- Agency staff should keep physical touch to a bare minimum and always appropriate. If restraint is used (always as a last resort) minimum force must always be used and fully documented immediately after everyone is safe and communicated to relevant professionals as soon as possible.
- Agency staff should inform parents / carers and professional team if phone numbers are exchanged with our young people. This is something that can be appropriate but must be respected. Contact should be via text ideally for evidence purposes and strictly about appropriate matters. Any safeguard concerns to be reported in the correct ways to SW or referring professional, outside of working hours to the out of hours teams.
- If you feel that you are either out of your depth or that you are unable to meet the needs of the young person, then please communicate this to PLS. The mental health of everyone is the responsibility of everyone and we need to work / talk together to keep a healthy mind, emotional state, body and soul.
  Your everyday actions have consequences, please bare this in mind as you go about your daily lives.
- Agency staff should never hide or cover up any actions / situations or behaviours. Any matters / behaviours that are seen to be illegal must be reported to the correct people immediately. This includes the carrying or hiding / storing of weapons.

I (Paul) would like to share a scenario as I feel it is appropriate:

A teacher took a PSHE session and spoke to his group about alcohol consumption. Mainly the dangers of excess usage. Whilst talking about it and almost preaching to his class a young person stood up and said, ‘Sir I saw your Facebook page and you were on a stag do.’ The teacher tried to stop the young person continuing but he carried on, ‘you posted about how much you drunk and how you ended up doing something very silly.’ The teacher was embarrassed and had the young man removed from the class. The head told the young person off and the young person said ‘I haven’t done anything wrong; I didn’t swear or do anything wrong. He was telling us that we should not drink and get drunk, and he was doing that very thing.’ That teacher left before he was pushed.

This story is real, and the message is clear:

To bring real change in our young people’s lives we must first acknowledge where we are in life. We must reflect and strive for growth every day. We cannot effectively change others’ lives if we are living in a state of severe imbalance all the time. Above are a few standards that should be kept, showing our young people that we are a calmness in a world of anxiety.
If you feel like this is a role for you, please proceed to the application on the next page. Any questions please email admin@paullaverysupport.co.uk or visit our website here.

Application

(Please complete the application in full as we cannot accept CV's)

Safe and fair recruitment commitment

At Paul Lavery Support (PLS), we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people at risk and expect all our colleagues to share these values. We are also committed to treating all applicants equally and fairly based on their skills, experience, and ability to fulfil the duties required of the role applied for. This is regardless of any protected characteristics (ethnicity, gender or gender re-assignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, physical / mental disability, age, pregnancy or maternity, marriage, or civil partnership).

Applicants must share with us all the relevant information that we have requested in this application form, but we would like to reassure applicants that any information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence in a fair and open manner.
Post applied for Self Employed PLS Agency Mentor
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Do you understand that to take on work with PLS, you must be registered as self employed?*

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From which date are you available to receive offers of work through PLS?*

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Personal details
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An enhanced DBS registered on the update service is required for this role. This is a service we can provide at the time of interview for an additional cost if needed. Please do understand, that if you decide to have a DBS carried out at the time of interview, you will be required to provide payment for this.

Due to the nature of this role, enhanced DBS and security checking will be required as part of the application process and will involve disclosure of all spent and unspent criminal convictions. We would therefore encourage you to disclose any such convictions at this stage so they can be discussed in full.

This role involves regulated activity with children. You should not apply if you are on the Childrens’ Barred List.
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If selected for an interview, do you require any reasonable adjustments to attend?

This question is to help us make the interview process fair and accessible to all applicants. Your response will not affect how your application is assessed.
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Professional references only

Please provide contact details for two referees who are able to comment on your suitability for the role applied for. You are responsible for providing accurate contact details so that referees can be contacted.
- The first referee MUST be your current or most recent employer.
- Professional referees will not be accepted from work colleagues who are not authorised to provide professional references in an official capacity on behalf of the organisation, or from people writing solely in the capacity of friends, or from relatives.
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Data Protection Consent

Paul Lavery support (PLS) is an Agency that supports and mentors vulnerable and challenging young people and their families. This could happen in the community on a school site or in a young person’s home. PLS must have and hold various information’s about each agency member for safety and security purposes. The information that we need to hold for the term you stay with PLS is:

Name / email address / address / application form / DBS certification number and date (DBS scanned copy will be destroyed safely after 3 months) / training certificates / passport copy / driving licence copy / mot / car insurance certificate / personal insurance certificate / breakdown cover certificate. This list could be added to as rules and legislation changes. It is also the responsibility of the agency member to refresh and send all current documents to PLS.

The reason for holding all the above personal information is for safety and evidence purposes. If a potential new client needs to see that you are adequately covered for insurance and have relevant certificates or training as well as various safeguard check documents, then I need to send them to prove your safe standards as well as my own. I will also need to share your email address and telephone as well as full name to the Local Authority and other educational / social care providers and bodies to secure the work that you may receive. I may also need to send your DBS certification number to prove you have made the relevant legal safety checks to show you can work in this field. The Police / HMRC and any other government body that requests the above information PLS will also share with them. By providing PLS with your information, you give us consent to verify all information throughout the recruitment process and ongoing. All above information that PLS holds is in accordance with data protection and current GDPR legislation.

If you have any questions about the above, please feel free to contact us and we can discuss anything that is unclear. If you are happy with the above and by signing this application form you agree to PLS holding and sharing the above information’s solely for the purpose stated:

Thank you for taking the time to read this and remember it is everyone’s responsibility to keep information safe.
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Thank you for completing this application form and remember to upload any up to date training certificates. Any questions please contact admin@paullaverysupport.co.uk.

Now when you're ready, press the 'Submit Application' and we will be in touch soon.

Thank you,

Paul Lavery Support
www.paullaverysupport.co.uk
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Information & Application for role of Self - Employed Agency Mentor

PLS Job Description

Acceptable Standards

Personal details

Contact details

Right to work

Passport

Disclosure & Barring Service

Health concerns

If selected for an interview, do you require any reasonable adjustments to attend?

Employment status

Education