Mentoring Support Worker - Moving Forward Moving On

Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Team

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: 12:00 noon on 18th September 2026.

For informal enquiries please contact

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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