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Mentoring
Mentoring at Been-There Care aims to help you manage the demands of working in the sector and feel more confident in your role supporting care experienced children and young people with increased confidence in your own abilities.
Training alone is not enough for some professionals working with care-experienced young people. It is a challenging sector, and sometimes the emotional demands can be as challenging as the practical demands of the post.
This is why Jon and Alex offer independent mentoring for professionals and volunteers working with care-experienced young people.
Alex has mentored numerous frontline professionals as a manager for housing and social care charities. She is particularly talented in building rapport, and collaboratively agreeing areas for improvement with those she mentors. Alex’s patient but methodical approach has consistently resulted in measurable professional development in those she mentors, which cascades down to the service users for whom they have responsibility.
Jon has mentored numerous staff members and volunteers throughout his career in supported housing and social care. This has included supporting volunteers working in homeless hostels, supporting ex-offenders in gaining post-custody social care work experience, training and supporting multi-agency frontline workers for a local authority, and setting up mentoring programmes to ease Gypsies and Traveller adults back into education.
At Been-There Care, we firmly believe that our mentorship programmes are most effective when conducted in person for the initial session. However, we fully appreciate that circumstances may arise where an in-person meeting is not feasible, and in such cases, we are more than willing to accommodate online meetings.