Key Information  

Job Title: Youth Worker

Reporting to: Programme Manager 

Salary: £12 per hour

Hours: Part time (approximately 16-24 hours per week) 

During term-time, these hours will be predominantly at weekends during the daytime and after school during the week, to fit alongside families’ availability. During school holidays these hours could swap to accommodate some weekday daytimes. 

Location: Islington and Southwark  

Duration: September 2020 until June 2020 

Proposed start date: September 2020 

Closing date: October 23 2020

We are looking for successful candidates to start as soon as possible and therefore applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and interviews scheduled accordingly. 

Please note that Chance UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and therefore our recruitment process for this post will include an enhanced DBS check

Find out more by clicking on the Job Description.

We are looking to grow our innovative and incarnational youth ministry on a council estate in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

We want to hear from passionate and committed Christian youth workers who want to help us create and develop projects that change lives and impact the whole culture of the area.

We have a number of projects we're looking to develop but we're very open and want to hear from practitioners who are interested in building community by living and working on an estate and reaching out to people with the love of Jesus.

Please do get in touch with Robin our director to hear more.

We are looking to recruit dynamic, passionate and committed youth worker to join our Targeted Youth Services team based in South Bristol for a fixed term period of 9 months to cover a member of staff on maternity leave.

Creative Youth Network is a successful charity organisation that supports young people to reach their potential and lead fulfilling lives by building secure and positive relationships with them based on their individual unique needs. We offer young people safe spaces to express themselves with creative courses, youth clubs and practical advice and support. We take pride in our relaxed working culture and environment, and are PQASSO accredited. We’ve opted in to the Bristol City Council Equality Charter and are dedicated to promoting equality and diversity within the organisation.

You will be delivering services in Bristol for young people aged 11 – 19. The role will include a combination of 1:1 work, small group work, outreach and open access delivery. You will be responsible for a caseload of up to 20 young people at any one time. 

It would be desirable if you have experience of working with young people around issues related to sex and relationships and well-being/mental health.

You’ll have two years’ experience of delivering a range of interventions to achieve outcomes for young people through effective use of resources and targeted delivery.

You’ll be expected to have the confidence to challenge a diverse group of young people and fuel their motivation to engage with the service. You’ll also need to demonstrate an ability to build effective, meaningful and trusting relationships with young people, empowering them and providing tailored guidance.

Travel is required for this role, so a full driving licence and access to a car would be beneficial. You’ll also be expected to work a minimum of two evenings per week, therefore flexibility is also essential. 

In return we can offer 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays, pro rata for part time) per year, generous pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme, opportunities for flexible working, paid breaks and fantastic development opportunities.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that underrepresented communities are represented in our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from the BAME community.

This role is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Salary: £23,053 per annum (pro rata), grade 2.3

Hours: 40 hours per week

Application deadline: 13th November 2020, 09:00

Start date: TBC

Interview date: TBC

Please visit our website to apply. Applications are preferred in a Word Doc format. 

Creative Youth Network is committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity.

Are you passionate about young people and providing them with exciting and developmental opportunities? If so, we’d love you to join us at Hampshire’s leading environmental charity.

Senior Youth Worker
Ref: HD03
Salary: £11 per hour (£21,450 FTE)
Contract: Until March 2021 (with a view to continue if funding is secured)
Hours: 19.5 hours to include Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings & Saturday afternoon
Operational Area: Hampshire
Location: Energy Youth Club, Eastleigh

Role Description:

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior Youth Worker to lead on session delivery and support the project Manager with delivering outstanding services for young people at Energy Youth Centre and other sites across the area. Developing meaningful and positive relationships with young people, you will provide support and guidance on range of subjects based on young people’s individual needs whilst facilitating their personal and social development.

To take on this rewarding role you must be a strong leader, creative and solution focused with a proven track record of delivering and leading impactful services for young people.

Think you have what it takes? Then get in touch…

In return we offer:

• 25 days per annum plus English Bank Holidays
• A contributory pension scheme
• Scope to continuing development of your professional skills

Closing Date: 25 October 2020
Interview Date: W/C 26 October 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply' button to be directed to our site. There you can download the application pack.

Groundwork South is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable groups. In line with our Safer Recruitment & Selection Policy and Procedure, successful applicants are subject to references and an enhanced with barred lists disclosure check.

CVs will not be accepted. No agencies please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a large response.

We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. To demonstrate our commitment we have been awarded the Disability Confident Scheme Symbol, which is awarded by the Employment Service. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. If you consider yourself to have a disability and would like to apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the Guaranteed Interview Scheme form (at the top of our current vacancies page) and submit this with your application. We shall ensure fairness and equal opportunities throughout our workforce and in service delivery.

Groundwork South is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age. A copy of our Equality and Diversity policy may also be made available to candidates on request.

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

We achieve this in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

The Hive is a holistic mental health and wellbeing service for young people aged 16 to 24 in Camden. The Hive is a safe and inclusive place to be, supporting the service as a whole to reach young people who do not readily seek help.  

Job Description

The Hive is part of The Minding the Gap programme, a cross cutting support service aimed at 16 to 24 year olds in Camden needing support transitioning between children’s and adult mental health services. The Hive is delivered by a unique partnership between leading local providers in Camden and young people - set up to create an integrated, holistic provision for 16-24 year olds. The Hive is commissioned by Camden Council and the Camden Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) from Catch22, working with The Brandon Centre, the Anna Freud Centre, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, The Winch and The Integrate Movement.

The Role

As a Young People’s Worker, you will need to be able to gain and build trusting relationships with a diverse range of young people so that they feel able to talk to you about the different problems they face. You will be trained and supported to apply non-formalised therapeutic techniques from a range of therapeutic backgrounds to meet the needs of the young people you work with. You will be able to identify and refer young people with more complex mental health needs to appropriate agencies. You will support young people to access a broad range of in-house and local services. You will take personal responsibility to ensure different service providers are working together so that nothing falls through the gaps for the young people you are working with, and that they experience integrated support. This will involve creating strong partnerships with local services via community orientation and outreach work to support young people in services they are already accessing. 

You will carry out assessments with young people in order to set goals and create holistic care plans to meet their needs. You will not be seeking to create a permanent mentor relationship, and will work with young people to ensure that they are able to live lives more independently of services, or to ensure they are linked into other appropriate organisations to meet their needs. A significant proportion of the service operates an outreach model of delivery, in the community, as preferred by the young person. The outreach work particularly targets vulnerable young people who may not readily engage with services.

You will be responsible for supporting the Hub Manager to plan, advertise and carry out activities in The Hive – our social hub. You will support and engage in the group work element of The Hive, engaging with young people on the social hub and carrying out health and wellbeing activities.  The young people supported through this project will often be vulnerable and challenging and workers  need to be resilient, skilled and flexible to ensure that we deliver a consistently high quality service.
 

Main Duties & Accountabilities

The role will require flexibility and skills in adaptability and the appointed person will be expected to carry out tasks over all different areas within the service.

This will include:

• Regular working hours within the social hub supporting delivery and engaging in the youth work element.
• One-to-one individual work with young people on your caseload;
• Outreach and orientation work with young people and services out in the community.

Working locations include:

• The Hive premises;
• Outreach and community based across Camden;
• Other sites and businesses within the local community may be required;
•  Meeting young people in their homes may be required.

Qualifications

• Have an NVQ level 2 in an area related to working with young people from under privileged backgrounds or a BA or BSc degree preferably, but not necessarily, in a social studies subject e.g. sociology, social administration, psychology or a teaching, youth work, nursing, substance misuse worker qualification, social work or other training relevant for working with vulnerable young people, including training by experience;
• Experience of working with young people in youth based/support settings;
• Experience of providing one to one support to young people;
• Experience of working in partnership, in multi-disciplinary teams;
• Experience of delivering activities within a youth base/support setting using creative ways to consistently engage young people.
• A relevant qualification in youth, social or community work or a related field.
• Experience of outreach or detached work.
• Experience of co-production of services with young people.
• Experience of community mental health delivery.

Knowledge/ Experience

• Knowledge and awareness of the types of issues that affect young people;
• Knowledge of good practice in emotional wellbeing and mental health delivery for 16 to 25 year olds – and an understanding of the key issues in relation to service delivery for this group.
•  Knowledge and understanding of the issues facing socially excluded young people or those at risk of disengaging from mainstream activities and services;
•  Knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and good practice relating to young people
   

Fixed term until 31st March 2022

Oxfordshire Youth and Response have a bold new vision for the Young People’s Supported Accommodation in Oxfordshire, a brand new service model combining the power of youth work with safe and quality homes; where young people, aged between 18 and 24, are supported to develop healthy and positive bonds with their housemates and communities.

The Positive Activities Youth Worker will play an essential role within this new ground-breaking service in Oxfordshire. You will passionately believe in the potential of all young people to achieve their goals and provide positive activities which motivate, inspire and engage young people living in supported accommodation. For these young people, the weekends can be a time of uncertainty, lack of structure and support, which can lead to engaging in risky activity. Your job will be to organise and deliver a group activity that appeals to young people and encourages them to build on their strengths and strengthen relationships with their housemates. Young people will be based in Witney, Bicester, Banbury, Oxford City, Didcot and Abingdon.

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity
OY is striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We warmly welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have 100% of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. Appointment will be made on merit alone.

Youth Worker – Outreach Development Tutor
Location: Willis Road, Croydon
Salary: From £19,000 to £25,000 per annum
Work Hours: 9am to 5pm – Full Time

The Write Time has quickly established itself as a leading specialist mentoring education and employability organisation working with vulnerable people of all ages to ensure each person referred to our services achieves their full potential in both an educational and personal sense, with the use of Choice Theory. The Write Time has multiple facets to the business. The organisation has an Independent School arm that was recently rated Good by Ofsted for its quality of provision for the wellbeing of young people. We also run a Post-16 programme for young people aged 16-24 and adults, helping them to get into education, employment or training. In the past, we have worked with over 1000 students across 12 schools in 7 boroughs.

We are specifically looking for an experienced Outreach Development Tutor. The role will involve working in schools and with post 16, mentoring, delivering workshops/sessions for learners that are relevant, engaging, and related to work preparation, and employability programmes that are accredited. The role is suited for someone that has a strong background in mentoring challenging learners to achieve positive destinations. 

Do you have what it takes to join The Write Time and contribute to giving learners a future?

In order to apply for this, post you will need: -

• A minimum of a Level 2 qualification/Grade C in English Language
• 2 years’ experience in working with vulnerable learners
• To be experienced and talented working with challenging young people and adults from a variety of backgrounds, and to have a track record of success in engaging this client group to achieve positive destinations
• To be a strong user of ICT-based software including MacOS 
• To be a competent coordinator and motivator 
• To be dynamic, creative, energetic, positive, and willing to communicate ideas appropriately  

Closing date: 10am, Friday 23rd October 2020
Interviews: Thursday 29th October 2020

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website to download the application form/information pack and other relevant documents.

No agencies please.

Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone. We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults.

Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness

Belonging

Strength

Collaboration

Manchester Mind Children and Young People’s Service is looking to recruit a Young People’s Peer Support Development Worker. The role will involve working with young people with lived experience of mental health problems to promote and oversee the set-up and running of peer support groups.

We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and deliver accessible mental health support services.

Position: Peer Support Development Worker

Salary: £25,295 pro rata

Hours: 21 hours per week (part-time)

Fixed-term project 12 months

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Ability to work in an open way that builds kind relationships and is receptive to and appreciative of the skills and talents of everyone.
• Knowledge or experience of the issues that young people with lived experience of poor mental health face and the impact this has on their lives.
• Experience of delivering a project for young people alongside volunteers aged 15-25 years.

All application documents can be found alongside this listing, as well as on the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 9am, Wednesday 21st October 2020.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

Are you passionate about empowering young people to have their voices heard? Do you have experience of working with children and young people and do you understand the challenges that they face?

If so, you could be part of an exciting new project.

At Healthwatch Gloucestershire, we are committed to ensuring our health and care service is shaped by the people who use it.  We’re the county’s independent health and care champion and we exist to make sure people are at the heart of care.

We want to ensure that children and young people from across the county are listened to and heard by the people who buy, plan and run health and social care services in Gloucestershire.  We are looking for a dynamic, experienced Youth Engagement Officer to lead an exciting new Young Listeners project.

You will lead the project and recruit, train and support a team of 10 young listeners who will in turn engage with other children and young people from across Gloucestershire offering a peer to peer engagement approach.  It will be a varied and interesting job and no two days will be the same.

You will need a can-do attitude, be enthusiastic and a ‘people person’. You will also need to be a team player who enjoys being part of and contributing to a small and dynamic team.

If you want to know more, visit our website and download our job pack.

In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, comfortable office accommodation in Quedgeley and flexible working practices.

Alternatively, do you work as a consultant and interested in this opportunity?  If so, please get in touch with us directly to express an interest or have a chat to find out more.

As part of our family support service, The Joshua Tree provides opportunities for all members of our families to connect with and gain support from our team of support workers. This is an exciting new role funded by Children in Need, with the post holder being the first point of contact for the amazing children and young people visiting our new purpose-built family support centre. This includes children and young people that are newly diagnosed with cancer; on treatment and post treatment, as well as siblings and wider young family members.  By developing a positive, trusting and caring ongoing professional relationship with the children and their families, the families will feel comfortable and confident in visiting the centre on a regular basis.  We envisage the centre to be utilised during the daytime, after school times, in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays, therefore flexibility on working days and times is essential.  Initially we will be open Thursday evenings and Saturdays, in addition to office open hours throughout the week.

The key purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, child-focused environment and service. It involves maintaining the playroom, teenage areas and playground, as well as planning, organising and implementing activities, programmes, groups and individual care plans to suit the children and young people. By providing supervision and care to the children and young people visiting the centre, this will also support the adult members of the family. The role includes liaising with other members of the family support team to co-ordinate targeted interventions when required e.g. counselling, art therapy, nutrition advice, personal training, school support etc. As well as face to face work, online sessions will also play a big part within this role. This includes providing Zoom sessions for individuals and groups, leading various therapeutic programmes and activities.

This role involves an element of administrative duties as well as directly supporting children and their families mainly at the Support Centre in Northwich. Visiting our families in North Wales and visiting children in their homes and schools, may occasionally be expected. Therefore, an element of travel can be involved (up to an hour driving distance). Therefore, post holders must hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle. Mileage expenses will be covered by the employer.

This role will be emotionally demanding. A full induction programme and training will be provided. We are a very supportive team, offering regular supervision and reflection time to support emotional wellbeing.

With the development of the Support Centre, we envisage some of the ways we deliver support being adapted, to promote the use of the facility by our families. Therefore, this role is subject to review, to reflect these ongoing developments.

The post holder will follow The Joshua Tree's values and effectively communicate with service users, their families, colleagues and educational and healthcare professionals.

Together Co (formerly known as Brighton and Hove Impetus) is Brighton and Hove’s leading loneliness charity, working to create connections that change lives for the better across the city. We run Social Prescribing and Befriending services that support more than 2000 people a year and have 400+ volunteers working alongside our staff team. In a city of 300,000 people no one should be lonely or socially isolated. Together, we can make sure no one is.

A person centred, collaborative and compassionate approach is at the heart of what we do and we are looking for someone with the right skills and attitude to support clients and manage volunteers in both in GP surgeries and in people’s own homes, whilst also working as part of a citywide team of Link Workers based in our central Brighton office.

Reporting to the Operational Lead for social prescribing, you will provide a front line social prescribing service, assessing a person’s need and helping them access appropriate groups and services. An experienced support worker, you will have an ability to build instant rapport with clients alongside a pragmatic and proactive attitude that enables people to achieve the goals that matter to them. You will also have the ability to build relationships with referrers in the voluntary and statutory sectors and clinicians in primary care.

This is a crucial time for social prescribing, which is now high on the government agenda. As well as some of the more forward thinking CCGs investing in services like ours, NHS England have further invested in funding a Link Worker in every Primary Care Network (PCN) across the country.

Our aim is to continue operating citywide, whilst also hosting PCN Link Workers to ensure they have access to the same quality training, support and expertise that we have become known for.

This is a rare opportunity to join the social prescribing team of an organisation that is moving from strength to strength. A recent rebrand has not only given us a fresh new look, but has also helped us rationalise our aims, align our services and further exemplify our values.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds.

Redthread works with vulnerable young people in crisis. Whether they have been the victim of a stabbing, are seeking support for anxiety, have suffered a sexual assault, or want to find a new home beyond the reach of a gang, we support them to overcome the challenges they face through our dynamic youth work programmes.

Our Youth Violence Intervention Programme at Queen’s Medical Centre launched in February 2018, and was the first YVIP service outside of London. Since then, the team have become fully embedded in the hospital and are highly valued by clinicians and community partners alike.

As a Youth Intervention Practitioner based in the A&E department of QMC, you will support young people who are experiencing trauma or tragedy and their families. To do this well you need to be a people person; passionate about supporting young people, and excited at the prospect of working in a fast-paced and exceptionally busy environment. You’ll need a proven ability to work with high risk, vulnerable young people and an understanding of the impact intense, short term work can have.

You must be a strong communicator: as comfortable building a relationship with a young person as you are liaising with our clinical colleagues. You’ll be keen to keep learning, seizing training opportunities at Redthread and continuously reflecting upon and improving your practice.

Closing date: 10am, Monday 2nd November 2020

Online 1st round Interview: 9th November 2020

For full details on the role please see the application pack on our website via the button below.

Oxfordshire Youth and Response have a bold new vision for the Young People’s Supported Accommodation in Oxfordshire, a brand new service model combining the power of youth work with safe and quality homes; where young people, aged between 18 and 24, are supported to develop healthy and positive bonds with their housemates and communities.

The Progression Coach is one of the most important roles within this new service in Oxfordshire. There will be 3 Night Worker Progression Coaches based in the new YPSA Service, providing essential overnight sup-port. Whilst all progression coaches will passionately believe in the potential of all young people to achieve their goals, it is the job of the Night Worker to build meaningful relationships with the young peo-ple and provide a reassuring, consistent and supportive presence over the nighttime period. Night Workers will be confident at de-escalating crisis and will work with a solutions-focused mindset to helping the young people address any challenges they may have faced in their day or evening, reinforcing the positive pro-gress they are making in their work with their day time Progression Coach.

In the new model each Progression Coach Night Worker will be based within one of the homes across the County. This office and rest space will be secure. Night Workers will be able to access the on-call support of YPSA Managers, and other night workers throughout their shift should it be required.

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity
Oxfordshire Youth is striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We warmly welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have 100% of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. Appointment will be made on merit alone.

Youth Outreach Officer 

Full time at 35 hours
Remote working, blend of home working and travelling, East of England, UK
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 Dependent on experience
Permanent

GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling-related harms.

Our flagship Youth Outreach Programme expanded in April 2020. The programme is designed to deliver education to young people on safe gambling choices over the next four years.

GamCare are recruiting for a Youth Outreach officers to promote, schedule and deliver this work and build strong regional networks around this work.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Establish the reputation of the GamCare Youth Outreach programme in youth work settings across regions
• Promote, arrange and deliver training sessions to youth-facing professionals (e.g. youth workers, teachers, social workers) in your region
• Promote, arrange and deliver young peoples’ workshops to 11-19 year olds in East of England
• Maintain a network of local stakeholders
• Maintain accurate records and provide statistical information required to assist delivery and evaluation.
• Be a point of contact for people interested in GamCare’s young people’s projects in East of England

You should have previous experience working with young people aged 11-19 and delivering educative content to a variety of audiences.

The role will require delivery time in the specified region and the surrounding area, as well as administration done from home.

You will form part of an enthusiastic team working and committed to supporting those affected by problem gambling across Great Britain, and work with a supportive a supportive line management team.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

To apply, please go onto the GamCare website and complete an application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey.

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

Job application: <NAME OF VACANCY>

Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

For further information, please contact Claire Little, Team Leader

Please note we do not accept CVs.

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

Closing date for applications: Monday 26 October at 9.00