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The Sickle Cell Society is looking for a Mentor to help run the Children and Young Person’s Mentoring Scheme. This person will have responsibility for co-ordinating the scheme, liaising with the other 3 mentors, tracking numbers and sources of referrals, promoting referrals by working in partnership with the NHS and any local patient/family.

Post: Mentor – East London Children’s and Young Persons
Base: Flexible home working, and other locations to meet the needs of the young person.
Accountable to: Lead Mentor
Manages: N/A
Hours: Sessional Basis
Salary: £100 per day
B Fixed term, 12 months (post will be continued subject to the outcome
of negotiations with funders).

Job Purpose
Mentors will be working with the Lead Mentor as well as in partnership with the local NHS local
patient/family Support Groups in the East London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Hackney,
Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
The aim of the East London Children’s and Young Person’s Mentoring Scheme is to improve the
health and wellbeing of young people with SCD through training, emotional support from mentors
and peer-support, improve young people’s understanding and management of the condition,
improve young people’s ability to negotiate transition from paediatric to adult services, encourage
young people’s involvement in volunteering to support others with the condition and engage more
with their local community.

About the Sickle Cell Society:
The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) is the only national charity in the Uk that supports and represents people
affected by a sickle cell disorder. We provide information, advice and support to enable and
empower individuals and families to improve their overall quality of life. Approximately 15,000
people in the Uk have sickle cell disorder. These inherited conditionals predominantly affect people
of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage and to a lesser extent people of Mediterranean,
Middle Eastern, South Asian and Central/South American heritage. We assist and enable people
living with SCD to realise their full potential whilst successfully managing the challenges they face in
living with this potentially life-limiting condition. We are a small, friendly and close knit team of 14
skilled and highly committed staff (9 part-time / 5 full-time) and approximately 30 active volunteers.

To Apply

Please read this full Job Description and Person Specification, and then complete our Application Form and return it before the deadline to addassa.follett@sicklecellsociety.org

Please note that we do not accept CVs and all applicants must reside in the UK.

Closing date for applications: w/c 15th August

Interview date by Zoom or Microsoft Teams: w/c 22nd August

Job Description and Person Specification: Mentor – Job – Description – Person specification.docx (sicklecellsociety.org)

Application Form: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SCS-Job-Application-Form-2022.docx

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The Sickle Cell Society is looking for a Lead Mentor to run the Young Person’s Mentoring Scheme in its aims to improve the health and wellbeing of young people with SCD in East London.

Role: Lead Mentor – East London Children & Young Person’s Mentoring Scheme
Base: Flexible home working, other locations to meet the needs of the young person and occasionally Sickle Cell Society- 54 Station Road, London NW10 4AU.
Accountable to: Chief Executive Sickle Cell Society
Manages: 3 Mentors
Hours: £120 per day (sessional basis)
Length of contract: Fixed term, 12 months (post will be continued subject to the outcome of negotiations with funders).

Role Purpose

The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) is a national Charity focussed on supporting people living with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) and their families. The SCS Mentoring Programme offers 1:1 mentoring and group sessions for young people (10 -24) with SCD in City and Hackney.

The Lead Mentor will provide direct support to young people through 1:1 sessions and group work. The role also will be responsible for co-ordinating the scheme, liaising with the other 3 mentors, tracking numbers and sources of referrals, promoting referrals by working in partnership with the NHS and any local patient/family Support group(s) and providing quarterly reports to the Chief Executive of the Sickle Cell Society.

The aim of the Young Person’s Mentoring Scheme is to improve the health and wellbeing of young people with SCD through training, emotional support from mentors and peer-support, improve young people’s understanding and management of the condition, improve young people’s ability to negotiate transition from paediatric to adult services, encourage young people’s involvement in volunteering to support others with the condition and engage more with their local community.

To Apply

Please read this full Job Description and Person Specification, and then complete our Application Form and return it before the deadline to miriam.williams@sicklecellsociety.org

Please note that we do not accept CVs and all applicants must reside in the UK.

Closing date for applications: 29th April 2022

Interview date by Zoom or Microsoft Teams: w/c 16th May 2022

Job Description and Person Specification: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lead-Mentor-Job-Description-Person-Specification-2022-final.pdf

Application Form: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SCS-Job-Application-Form-2022.docx

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We were also fortunate to have had the opportunity for the programme to be published in the British Journal of Haematology in Spring of 2019 outlining the outcomes of the model on children and young people. Our mentors were at the British Society of Haematology Conference in Glasgow in April 2019 to present their work.

We are pleased to announce that the Sickle Cell Society are currently in early conversations with all of the East London Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) across the 7 boroughs about the potential expansion of the City and Hackney Sickle Cell Peer Mentoring Programme which has successfully piloted over the last 2 years.

Whilst these conversations are taking place, we intend to pause referrals into the programme to manage demand and capacity. The break will commence from 30^th June 2019. This means the mentors will take a short break from mentoring young people to ensure that the wider expansion to all of East London is successful. We hope the programme will resume hopefully in the winter or early next year, 2020 and will be re-launched. We will keep you informed of the progress of the programme expansion.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Sickle Cell Society on info@sicklecellsociety.org

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The Hackney and City Mentoring Scheme is a pilot model of social care using peer to peer mentoring was developed for children and young people with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) aged 10-24 and started in August 2017. The mentoring programme was commissioned by the City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) through their Innovation Fund and provided by the Sickle Cell Society (SCS).

The aim of the project was to support emotional, social and physical wellbeing by fostering development of skills and positive behaviours through mentor-mentee interaction. This included confidence building and promotion of self-management, improving knowledge and sign posting available health, social and education support structures. The impact on short term quantitative and qualitative outcome measures was evaluated for the period Aug 17- Jun 18.

The Hackney and City Mentoring Scheme was also invited to present their findings from their analysis at the British Society for Haematology
59^th Annual Scientific Meeting in Glasgow in April.

Click here to read the full abstract and see below the poster overview of the publication.

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Since joining the programme, Faith has worked extremely hard to overcome some of the challenges related to Sickle Cell and has been able to accomplish some amazing things as a result. Over the past year Faith has worked with her mentor, Whitney, to focus on ways to reduce anxiety, manage her studies and adjust to her new Sickle Cell treatment. She was able to achieve an outstanding 8 grades 9-7 in her GCSEs. Faith also won a prize for her performance in a literacy competition for International Women’s Day and won the Sarah Crossan Literature Award in recognition of her literacy skills.

With the support of Whitney, Faith has worked towards pursuing her goal of becoming a medical doctor. She secured a place at two highly competitive summer schools on offer at University College London and Kings College London and was selected to take part in medical mentoring programmes for students. She was also invited to visit both Oxford University and Cambridge University over the summer as part of her involvement in The Brilliant Club. In addition, Faith completed a week’s work experience in the A&E department of Homerton University Hospital where she learned more about working as a medical professional in the NHS.

Outside of school Faith has found the confidence to record her first song, perform live on stage and in an Artistic Development Programme run by the Hackney Empire. Faith now says “I can acknowledge all of the things I struggle with, and despite it being difficult, I am trying to improve anyway.“ Faith has shown great determination and strength in refusing to let Sickle Cell stop her from pursuing her dream career and her hobbies and we hope that her story so far encourages other young people to keep on pushing through the difficulties of Sickle Cell to reach their full potential.

Click here to find out more about the Hackney and City Mentoring Programme

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There will, of course, always be conversations which I find uncomfortable but now that I have started to find my voice I hope that – with time – those conversations become easier. If I hadn’t started to open up I would not have met some of the most incredible and inspirational people with Sickle Cell that I now know and I would not have been given so many amazing opportunities, such as becoming a mentor!

To anyone else who is unsure about whether or not to speak up I would say whilst you should never feel pressured into having a conversation you’re not ready to have, you should never allow Sickle Cell to silence you.

Find out more about Whitney and the Mentoring Programme here.

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To refer a young person email: mentors@sicklecellsociety.org

Or call: 07377170152

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To book your first session email: mentors@sicklecellsociety.org

Or call: 07377170152

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Michael has a BSc in Financial Economics and an MSc in Real Estate. To date he has spent his career working in the property development field focusing on the financial viability, acquisition and delivery of residential accommodation blocks for rent to predominantly young professionals in London.

Michael’s is a keen foodie and enjoys visiting London’s various food markets and world restaurants, has a love for music and is a casual pianist, he is a keen runner and does a 5km twice a week and an avid Arsenal fan. Michael has over 5+ years experience of mentoring and coaching football in Hackney and also holds an FA qualification in football coaching.

Michael’s objective is to share his experiences in life to help others who may be facing challenges of their own and help them to overcome them.

If you are, or you know, a 10-24 year old living with sickle cell in Hackney and City then email mentors@sicklecellsociety.org or call 07377 170152 to book a session or to find out more.

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