Trailblazer Youth Mentor and North Yorkshire - Part Time positions

The Trailblazer initiative is aimed at addressing economic inactivity and supporting NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) young people aged 18-21years. Launched in the Get Britain Working white paper, the initiative received £240 million in funding to reform Jobcentre Plus and introduce 16 Trailblazers across the UK. Trailblazer focuses on enhancing local support systems, integrating existing work, health, and skills programmes into a holistic offer, and developing evidence-based strategies to support economically inactive individuals into work or learning.

NYY’s Role

The proposed programme will support 4 cohorts of 15 academically under achieving Year 10 students at four different secondary schools across York and North Yorkshire – 1 in the City of York and 3 in North Yorkshire.

The Youth Mentor role is to co-develop the programme with individual schools to:

• Support young people to engage with the next stage of life to prevent them becoming NEET

Overall, the aim of the programme is to provide youth mentoring and enrichment activities to build confidence, skills, and progression into work or training.

Interviews will take place the week commencing 15th September 2025.