Lead Youth Engagement Practitioner
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This role is a key part of the team at Peer Power Youth. Responsible for leading, co-ordinating and delivering and evaluating young people’s involvement in our creative ‘voice and influence’ projects, you will co-create and work alongside young people in secure settings and in the community. You will also be able to lead on a specialist area of work within the team.
A crucial part of our model is to develop strong, trusted and caring relationships with the team, with funders and commissioners, and with a cohort of young people. You will ensure that young people are recruited, engaged and supported to attend, and that activities are co-created, creative, safe and inclusive, developing the skills and expertise of the young people involved. Much of the role is outreach, from our Victoria head office, to going to where young people are for engagement, delivering sessions with young people in community or secure settings, or for recruitment of new young people, with one day a fortnight work from home.
Projects span youth voice and influence work across:
- Secure Children’s Homes
- Young Offenders Institutes
- Liaison and Diversion Schemes
- Violence Reduction Partnerships
- Youth Justice Services
- Pupil Referral Units
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Child and Youth Social Care Services
- Youth Charities
- Training and Delivery of our Empathy Led Model
As a Lead co-ordination role, we’re looking for someone who can develop high quality relationships and liaise with funders and commissioners and has a qualification in youth work or significant relevant experience. Experience with youth justice and/or secure settings is desirable, but not essential.
An average week might look like:
- Co-ordinating and delivering youth voice or wellbeing sessions, liaising with commissioners, funders, and young people
- Delivery and co-ordination of accredited skills development sessions for young people
- Providing one‑to‑one relational support to young people
- Preparing young people for meetings/events with partners
- Working alongside contractors to ensure consistent delivery quality
- Completing safeguarding, risk assessments and session planning
- Recording outcomes and monitoring impact using CRM systems
- Supporting young people’s involvement in decision making internally
- Supporting young people’s involvement in training and coaching
Please submit a CV and cover letter (maximum 2 pages) that addresses the person specification, and specifically the headings mentioned in the application pack. We are interested in your experience, approach and values.
We try and make the recruitment process as accessible as possible, so please email us if you’d prefer to apply via an alternative format (e.g. video, voice note, etc.) or have any other access requirements. Please see information pack for details of how to contact us.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
We're Peer Power Youth - we exist to make support services better for children and young people who experienced trauma
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