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Youth Mentor Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
-As a mentor your contact with the youth will be primarily one-on-one relationship and independent life skill building.
-Mentors must always engage in positive, prosocial activities and interactions at all times while with the youth.
-The youth mentor must remain flexible to the needs of the youth at all times, encouraging participation in positive, pro-social engagement through recreation, education and life skill development. Areas of life skill development could include: areas of hygiene, transportation, money management, shopping, cooking, diet, exercise, healthy sexual relationships and community resources.
-Making arrangements to meet and drop-off youth at pre-arranged locations. Always maintain the youths safety and wellbeing during your one-on-one time.
-The mentor must be creative, flexible, reliable & possess strong communication skills.
-Consistency always be on time and always be willing to reschedule missed time, as the youths lives present challenges and appointments.
-You will be responsible for creating case plans bi-weekly that would incorporate these different skills each time you meet with the youth.
-Mentors must be physically active enough to participate in all planned mentor activities.
-Meeting monthly as a cooperative team as well as individually with your supervisors.
-Meeting with the mentee, their workers and Mentorship staff prior to the first one-on-one session is required.
-Being able to problem-solve & de-escalate situations that arise during your one-on-one time.
Case Management:
-Preceding crisis situations (minor or major) Mentors must follow up with a detailed incident report and submit to the appropriate people.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Computer use
Transportation/Travel Information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Child and Youth Care Worker (CCW/CYW) Diploma
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Non-violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) Certificate
- Cultural Awareness Training
Additional Skills
- Administrative and office activities
- Housekeeping activities
- Food preparation
Type of Community or Social Service
- Early intervention programming for at-risk youth
- Services for the homeless
Specific Skills
- Implement life skills workshops
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
Work Setting
- Group home
- Shelter for the homeless
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check
Target Groups or Clients
- Male
- Female
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Young offenders
- Street population
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
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