Mentoring & Schools Lead

We are recruiting someone to lead and develop our mentoring and schools work, to grow the project so that more young people can access the support they need offered through our work.

We are looking for someone who can develop, lead and manage Mentoring in schools and the community across Bath & North-East Somerset (BANES). We currently work in 7 secondary schools and 1 primary school and want to work in more schools across the county. We also want to increase the number of young people we mentor in the community and increase the numbers of young people referred to us.

The successful candidate will be responsible for registering LUX Youth Project with the Local Authority to be an approved Alternative Provision provider and will oversee the delivery of mentoring as part of this project. They will build strong working relationships with the relevant people in Local Authority, Social Care, schools, SEND and the Virtual School to develop referrals to our projects.

The successful candidate will be part of the Senior Leadership Team at LUX and will help shape and implement the Christian vision of the Charity.

If supporting young people and seeing their lives transformed so that they are able to transition successfully into adulthood is something that inspires and excites you please request an application pack, we’d love to hear from you.

This role has an ‘Occupational Requirement’ for the candidate to be a Christian in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and sign our statement of faith.

If you would like to have a chat about this role please contact our CEO, Luke Brightwell, on