Position Connect Mentor
Location Flexible - principally home based with regular travel across Glasgow
Salary £25,664 + excellent benefits
Hours 35 hours per week (flexible working)
Status Fixed Term until 31 March 2027
Closing date 14 June 2026
The Wise Group is looking for a Mentor to join our growing Connect team - an innovative digital mentoring and early intervention service designed to help people build confidence, stability and engagement before challenges escalate further.
Connect combines relational mentoring with structured online learning and wellbeing support, helping people experiencing poverty, unemployment, poor wellbeing, isolation and wider life challenges to make positive and sustainable progress.
In this role, you will support customers referred through Wise Group services, Jobcentres, Justice Social Work and external partners. Using a relational mentoring approach, you will help individuals identify goals, overcome barriers and engage with the right support at the right time.
You will play an important role in:
supporting customers to engage with online mentoring and learning
building trusted relationships that encourage progression and stability
helping customers improve confidence, wellbeing and digital capability
supporting engagement with wider services and opportunities
contributing to the continued growth and development of Connect
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a service that combines digital delivery with relational mentoring to provide flexible, scalable support across multiple communities.
We are looking for someone who:
is passionate about supporting people experiencing poverty and disadvantage
understands the importance of relationship-based support
is confident using digital platforms including Microsoft Teams
can motivate and engage people facing complex challenges
works well with colleagues, partners and stakeholders
contributes positively to team culture and continuous improvement
As part of The Wise Group, you’ll join an enterprise committed to innovation and creating lasting change in communities.
View the Role Profile for full details about this opportunity.
The Wise Group is a leading social enterprise, which transforms people’s lives.
Every day we support our customers into jobs, work to lift people out of fuel poverty, and help people coming out of prison to build a better future. Our work is varied, but underlying everything we do is a passion and commitment for social justice and a fairer society for all.
To do this, the Wise Group works in partnership with everyone from large businesses to national and local government and third sector organisations who provide essential specialist support to our customers. Together, we’re greater than the sum of our parts.
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