Wellbeing Mentor

Wellbeing Mentor

Red Balloon Reading

Location: Reading

Salary: £25,398 fte (pro rata for part-time)

Hours: 0.6 of a full time equivalent. Standard working hours are 8:30am – finish 4:30pm. But this post will require you to be flexible and meet with students/families or attend meetings outside of those hours.

Start date: September 2025

 

Role:

The purpose of the role is to establish and maintain a positive relationship with a core group of students, their families, and the professionals supporting them. The students are identified as needing one-to-one support after a long period of self-exclusion from education. The work will cover student induction, non-formal education, mentoring, community engagement work and transition support for the next stage of a student’s education. Work will be face-to-face (which will involve travel).

You can view a full job description and person specification below.

How to Apply

In line with safer recruitment practices, we are only able to accept applications via our application forms, which can be accessed by following the application link above. You can save your application at any point and come back to it at a later stage.

For more details about our recruitment and interview process, please see our recruitment pack which can be downloaded via the link above.

Closing date

    • The deadline for applications is 31st of August 2025

Interviews will take place the week after a suitable application has been received, and it is hoped the successful candidate will join us as soon as possible. If you have any queries, please call 0118 958 3004 and ask to speak to Michelle Masters. We look forward to receiving your application.

Red Balloon is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires the successful candidate to commit to this. The person appointed will be subjected to an enhanced DBS check.

Red Balloon is an equal opportunities employer. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, marital status.