Relational Mentor

At the Wise Group, we work with people facing multiple, interconnected challenges - where debt, mental health, housing, family pressures and employment are all present at once. We don’t treat these as separate issues. We work alongside people to stabilise whole households and support sustained progress.

That’s what Relational Mentoring is.

We are now recruiting mentors to join our Relational Mentoring Scotland (RMS) service - funded through the Scottish Government’s Tackling Child Poverty Fund and aligned to Best Start, Bright Futures . This is a national priority, and this work sits at the heart of how Scotland will meet its child poverty ambitions.

Operating across Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and the Scottish Borders, you will work with families experiencing complex challenges - building trusted relationships, navigating systems, and supporting progress over time.

This is not a role with quick fixes or single-issue interventions.

It is about:

• Building trust where trust is low

• Staying alongside people when progress is not linear

• Connecting services around the person - not the other way round

• Supporting families into stability, and where possible, sustainable employment

You will work closely with schools, health services, local authorities and community partners - but your focus will remain consistent: one mentor, one household, a whole-system response to poverty.

What we’re looking for

We’re not just looking for experience - we’re looking for mindset.

You might come from mentoring, employability, health, justice, housing or community work. What matters is your ability to:

• Build strong, consistent relationships with people facing complex challenges

• Work confidently across systems and services

• Stay focused on long-term outcomes, not short-term outputs

• Handle ambiguity, setbacks and complexity with resilience

• Balance empathy with a clear focus on progress

Experience in mentoring or similar roles is beneficial, but not essential if you can demonstrate these capabilities.

What you need to know

• Location: Delivery across six local authority areas (travel required). Currently the most need is in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire but there may be travel required in other areas

• Driving licence: Preferred due to the nature of the role

• PVG: Required for successful candidates

This role is part of a wider shift.

Too many systems respond to one issue at a time. Our work shows that approach doesn’t reflect reality - and doesn’t deliver sustained change.

Relational Mentoring is about doing this differently. It is about prevention, progression and reducing long-term demand on public services.

If you want to be part of that shift - and do work that is challenging, meaningful and grounded in real outcomes - this is the role.