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Post:Mentoring Support Worker – Moving Forward Moving On NI73/09/26/1v-1
Salary: Grade 5 salary scale: £26,679 - £31,325 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Status: Fixed Term Until 31st March 2027
Location: Belfast
About the service:
Moving Forward Moving On (MFMO) is a mentoring support project working with young people aged 16-24 years who have an alternative education background and/or have a history of offending behaviour. MFMO use the Transitional Mentoring Support Model of 1) Emotional Support; 2) Advice & Guidance; and c) Handholding to assist service users in addressing their barriers to progression.
As a Mentoring Support Worker, you will work with service users to improve their quality of lives within their community by promoting wellbeing, independence, healthy life choices and training & employability options. Depending on the service one may have direct contact with the families and friends of the service users and one's work may change their lives too. As a mentoring support worker, one will need to be resilient enough and open minded to deal with some of the challenges that such complex needs can present.
Full details of the role and the essential criteria are detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification available at the following link;
Mentoring_Support_Worker_JDPS_Sept 2026.pdf
The closing date for all completed applications is: 12:00pm on 18th September 2026.
For informal enquiries please contact 028 90840 555
EXTERN offer a competitive benefits package including;
26 days annual leave, increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service
11 statutory holidays
Generous pension, employer contribution of 6.5%
Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay, Maternity Pay and Paternity Pay
Life Assurance and Wellbeing Programmes
Comprehensive induction and training
Regular Supervision
Employee Assistance Programme
Bike To Work Scheme
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