Job Title: One Programme: Youth Development Worker

Location of job: Northampton villages of Ashton, Roade, Courteenhall and Hartwell – office base to be agreed.

Job Type: Part Time

Contract Type: Fixed Term from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021

Hours: 15 hours per week

Salary: £7,254 per annum

Closing Date: 10/07/2020

We are looking for a young person who :

- Easily relates to young people and their families.

- Is willing to develop and use their faith-sharing skills.

- Enjoys working with a team

What is the role about?

- Helping young people to grow in their faith.

- Inspiring young people to develop in leadership roles.

What's in it for you?

- Discovering the joys of working ecumenically.

- Learning from our skilled Families & Children’s Worker

- Enjoying the challenges of rural village life.

Occupational requirements

Age 18-23
To be a Christian

In return, we offer an exceptional pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement (plus an extra 3 days’ leave granted over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, Flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser

There is a genuine Occupational Requirement for the post holder to be a Christian in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

For an informal discussion with a member of the team please contact

Deacon Richard Beckett on 01604 705642 or email [email protected]

Interviews will be held via ZOOM on 22 July 2020

Friday 10 July 2020

Friday 10 July 2020

Chance UK has been delivering early-intervention mentoring programmes across London since 1995. We are looking for youth workers across two of our mentoring programmes; Explore & Empower and STEP. We are currently running all of our mentoring services via online platforms and phone to adhere to the current government guidance on the prevention of the spread of Coronavirus. We will resume with face to face sessions as and when the government guidance allows and in discussion with individual families.

Key Information  

Job Title:  Youth Worker

Reporting to: Programme Lead

Salary: £12 per hour 

Hours: Part time (approximately 12-22 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 online

Duration:  June 2020 until April 2021 

Proposed start date: June 2020 

About the role: Mentors pick the child up from home and run a 1:1 session in the community, once a week for 2-4 hours. They use the solution-focused approach to work on building the child’s self-esteem and confidence, set goals and explore new places. We are currently running all of our mentoring services via online platforms and phone to adhere to the current government guidance on the prevention of the spread of Coronavirus. We will resume with face to face sessions as and when the government guidance allows and in discussion with individual families.

Explore & Empower is Chance UK’s flagship early intervention programme that supports 5-12 year old children with behavioural and emotional difficulties and their parents/carers. This nine month-long programme empowers children to develop their skills, confidence and life aspirations through weekly mentoring sessions alongside 1:1 and group support for parents and carers 

STEP transitions mentoring is Chance UK’s newest programme that supports year 6s and year 7s (and their parents/carers) as they make the move to secondary school. In this six month-long programme, each child will receive weekly mentoring sessions and group support, helping them to develop skills confidence and strategies to manage the changes ahead, successfully navigate their first months of secondary school and beyond. 

This programme is designed for children who have current/past involvement from CAMHS. The families we work with have often experienced challenges in life e.g. trauma and we use solution-focused techniques to help strengthen relationships and explore their preferred future. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Attending Chance UK’s mentor training (either two full days or three evenings) and delivering a structured mentoring programme according to the principles and ethos outlined 

• Mentoring a caseload of up to 6 children for a six-nine-month duration. Every effort will be made to allocate Youth Workers to children who live in a close area so that sessions can be completed as efficiently as possible 

• Meeting each child on a weekly basis, online or picking up/dropping off at home, building rapport, and planning appropriate activities according to their individual interests, abilities and goals 

• Taking full responsibility for the child’s safety and welfare when out in the community together 

• Liaising directly with each parent/carer to ensure sessions happen every week

• Completing an online report for each session within 24 hours of it taking place 

• Understanding and abiding by all of Chance UK’s policies and procedures 

• Following Chance UK’s safeguarding procedures and acting on any concerns within an appropriate timeframe 

• Attending a graduation ceremony at the end of the mentoring period, and abiding with Chance UK’s no-contact policy with families after this date 

• Working pro-actively with the Programme Manager to achieve the best outcomes for each child, and flagging up issues that arise 

• Attending a monthly 1:1 supervision with the Programme Manager at Chance UK’s office 

Person specification: 

Essential 

• Significant experience supporting children or young people on a 1:1 basis 

• Strong understanding of the context and challenges facing vulnerable children and families 

• Strong understanding of the impacts of domestic violence and how these might present in children

• Safeguarding training successfully completed to a level 3 standard within the last 18 months. Evidence of this training (dated provider's certificate) should be provided at interview. 

• Ability to work in a child-centred manner; quickly building trust and rapport with a child

• Commitment to seeing each child complete the full six- or nine-month programme once started 

• Ability to have motivational conversations about topics children find challenging in a non-judgemental and child-centred way 

• Willingness to take part in a range of activities depending on the child’s interests 

• Agreement to stick within the monthly budget for activities and to claim expenses promptly at the end of every month 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent time-management and organisational skills

• Own transport or ability to use public transport to travel between family homes 

• Flexibility with scheduling own working hours, whilst bearing in mind that all sessions with a child must take place outside of school time 

Desirable 

• A professional qualification in youth work, social work, child development, education or a related field 

• Experience supporting children in the 5-13 age range on a 1:1 basis 

• Experience working in a trauma-informed way 

Essential competencies: 

• A flexible team player who thrives on a diverse work portfolio. 

• Is solution focused and pre-empts problems by seeking guidance or taking action. 

• Pursues tasks/goals with energy, drive and a need for completion. 

• A self-motivated individual with the ability to work effectively under pressure and with minimal supervision. 

• Committed to diversity and implementing equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice. 

• Discretion in dealing with sensitive and confidential information.

Please send a CV and 1 page covering letter to the recruitment email. 

Closing Date:

Round 1 - STEP Mentoring Programme closes on Thursday 4th June 2020. 

Round 2 - Explore and Empower Mentoring Programme closes on Thursday June 25th 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. 

The job description is a general outline of the duties and responsibilities the post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing organisation as a Youth Worker and Coach and be part of the Latin American Youth Forum (LAYF). Aimed at 13-19 year olds, LAYF supports young Latin Americans and Spanish/Portuguese speakers more widely to access education, training and employment, increase youth engagement, boost social and emotional capabilities and experience increased social cohesion. This project is delivered in partnership with Building Young Brixton (BYB), a consortium co-led by 9 Lambeth-based organisations, providing a broad and diverse offer for young people in the borough. 

LAYF targets vulnerable young people (including NEETs and those who are working in low income positions) and consists of four main activities: (1) Creative ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Classes, (2) Skills/creative arts workshops, (3) In-depth career/education mentoring, and (4) engagement with BYB organisations through referrals and participation to joint activities/events. The Youth Worker will develop a dynamic activity programme and a consistent mentoring service, while working closely with the LAYF ESOL Teacher delivering ESOL classes and with the Family Support Worker supporting secondary school admission. LAYF has a bottom-up approach, and all activities are co-created with the young people. 

The Youth Worker and Coach will be an excellent communicator in both English and Spanish (Portuguese desirable), who is passionate about social justice and will co-create an exciting programme of activities for the young people of LAYF. The Youth Worker will be able to handle service delivery with monitoring impact and communication (both outreach and social media) while ensuring the safety of the young people during face-to-face and remote activities. 

Due to COVID-19, we are currently delivering activities remotely and planning to go back to face-to-face delivery once it's safe to do so.

The deadline to apply is midnight of Sunday 12th July 2020. For more information on this role and how to apply, please visit the IRMO website as directed below. 

Programme Information

Young Greenwich is a new integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The key purpose of the programme is to enable young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social, and educational aspirations with an aim to develop their voice and reach their full potential. The programme is led by NHS Oxleas Foundation Trust (Oxleas) and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together with METRO form the Young Greenwich Partnership. Young Greenwich will deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for pupils in schools into community-based activities and support vice versa.

As part of the Young Greenwich offer, METRO will facilitate and deliver the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP), which aims to increase testing and treatment and reduce onward transmission of Chlamydia amongst 15-24 year olds- particularly those who are at higher risk. METRO will also facilitate and deliver the free condom scheme available to Greenwich residents aged 13-24; the Greenwich C Card enables young people to access free condoms via sites across the borough as well as online.

Job Summary

If you are right for this role, you will be a committed, motivated, and outgoing individual who wants to support the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of young people living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, working in a partnership capacity as part of a holistic health and wellbeing programme. Your role will be multi-faceted, and you will therefore be flexible and able to offer a variety of SRH interventions in a broad range of settings, to a broad range of young people.

First, you will provide brief interventions in sexual health in an outreach capacity at schools, colleges, universities, leisure centres, youth organisations, and other venues. Here, your primary focus will be to provide basic information about SRH to young people, whilst also encouraging them to complete a Chlamydia screen and register to the free condom scheme. You will also promote online testing for those aged over 18, and connect young people with other local sexual health services through referral or handholding.

Second, you will deliver SRH and relationships training to groups of young people and professionals, in smaller workshop settings as well as to larger groups. You will be able to deliver accurate information on a variety of topics that are often sensitive and complex. You will have an existing knowledge base that you will be willing to expand and solidify through a combination of supported training and independent learning.

Third, you will provide drop in sexual health sessions and offer 1:1 sexual health support to young people who attend any of the four Young Greenwich youth groups. You and your counterpart will each be responsible for visiting two of the four Young Greenwich hubs once each week, working closely with the youth group leader as well as the young people themselves to establish trusted relationships and an engaging programme of activity. You will be proactive and creative at integrating sexual health to other, ongoing activities.

Across all aspects of your role, you promote local sexual health and contraception services to young people and adults alike, referring to in-person or online services as appropriate and handholding as much or as little as needed, particularly to those most vulnerable. You will keep accurate monitoring records for all interactions, referrals, Chlamydia screens, and C Card registrations / distributions.

This role requires flexibility and working unsociable hours. Schedules will be done up to one month in advance and will vary from week to week depending on programme need.

Programme Information

Young Greenwich is a new integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The key purpose of the programme is to enable young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social, and educational aspirations with an aim to develop their voice and reach their full potential. The programme is led by NHS Oxleas Foundation Trust (Oxleas) and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together with METRO form the Young Greenwich Partnership. Young Greenwich will deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for pupils in schools into community-based activities and support vice versa.

As part of the Young Greenwich offer, METRO will facilitate and deliver the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP), which aims to increase testing and treatment and reduce onward transmission of Chlamydia amongst 15-24 year olds- particularly those who are at higher risk. METRO will also facilitate and deliver the free condom scheme available to Greenwich residents aged 13-24; the Greenwich C Card enables young people to access free condoms via sites across the borough as well as online.

Job Summary

If you are right for this role, you will be a committed, motivated, and outgoing individual who wants to support the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of young people living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, working in a partnership capacity as part of a holistic health and wellbeing programme. Your role will be multi-faceted, and you will therefore be flexible and able to offer a variety of SRH interventions in a broad range of settings, to a broad range of young people.

First, you will provide brief interventions in sexual health in an outreach capacity at schools, colleges, universities, leisure centres, youth organisations, and other venues. Here, your primary focus will be to provide basic information about SRH to young people, whilst also encouraging them to complete a Chlamydia screen and register to the free condom scheme. You will also promote online testing for those aged over 18, and connect young people with other local sexual health services through referral or handholding.

Second, you will deliver SRH and relationships training to groups of young people and professionals, in smaller workshop settings as well as to larger groups. You will be able to deliver accurate information on a variety of topics that are often sensitive and complex. You will have an existing knowledge base that you will be willing to expand and solidify through a combination of supported training and independent learning.

Third, you will provide drop in sexual health sessions and offer 1:1 sexual health support to young people who attend any of the four Young Greenwich youth groups. You and your counterpart will each be responsible for visiting two of the four Young Greenwich hubs once each week, working closely with the youth group leader as well as the young people themselves to establish trusted relationships and an engaging programme of activity. You will be proactive and creative at integrating sexual health to other, ongoing activities.

Across all aspects of your role, you promote local sexual health and contraception services to young people and adults alike, referring to in-person or online services as appropriate and handholding as much or as little as needed, particularly to those most vulnerable. You will keep accurate monitoring records for all interactions, referrals, Chlamydia screens, and C Card registrations / distributions.

This role requires flexibility and working unsociable hours. Schedules will be done up to one month in advance and will vary from week to week depending on programme need.

This is an exciting new developmental role, whose principle purpose is to recruit, engage and co-ordinate a group of local young people with the aim of enabling and empowering them to ensure their voices are heard and bring about change. This may include increasing their levels of confidence, improving their communication skills and improving their ability to self-advocate.  We envisage that the young people engaged will develop new projects and services in response to their needs and that of the local community.

Big Local SW11 along with 5 charities that make up the BLSW11 Alliance are working together for the young people of Battersea.  This role will include working across the 5 charities along with other voluntary organisations in Battersea.

Whilst ‘Battersea Youth Voice’ will be open to all young people, the Coordinator’s main role will be to target those young people that have been marginalised, deemed of as ‘hard to reach’ and who rarely have their voices heard.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it. The research and youth understanding team are responsible for commissioning and producing research to inform the YEF’s understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and to help us better understand the lives of young people vulnerable to youth violence, and what this means for the YEF’s work.

Task Description

We’re looking for passionate researchers who are committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to support the commissioning and delivery of a programme of qualitative and quantitative research. This research will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers. It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

We are appointing two research officers, one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s broad programme of research, and one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s work to better understand young people who are vulnerable to violent crime.

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of team, we want two people who can:

• Assist in commissioning and producing research to help us better understand what works to reduce violent youth crime.

• Engage with and understand the experiences and needs of people affected by violent youth crime, including young people and their families, across England and Wales.

• Help manage the YEF’s comprehensive programme of research and youth understanding activity.

• Help track and maintain relationships with academics, government analysts, researchers and other experts producing work that is relevant to the YEF.

• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work, including its thematic and place-based grant-making, behaviour change and policy work.

• Help design the very best ways for us to do our research.

• Contribute to a range of published work, including research reports, briefings and regular blog posts, looking at new forms of communicating and visualisation of complex information for a wide range of audiences.

• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and in delivering our broader research programme.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with quantitative and/or qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods. You can provide examples of how you have practically used these skills.

• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.

• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self-motivated and can work independently.

• You are a highly effective project manager. You are effective at managing projects from beginning to end, whether they are delivered internally or externally.

• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people, including young people.
   

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values
   

You must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, and the ability to both deploy them and critically appraise their use.
• Excellent communicator: You can combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible way to non-experts.
• Stakeholder engagement: You are comfortable seeking the views of young people and other stakeholders to help gather experiential insights for our work. This could include facilitating sessions with them.
• Project management: You are comfortable seeing projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• Job requirements
• An enhanced DBS check will be required for both roles but a criminal record is not a block on performing this role

You might have these sorts of qualifications/knowledge/skills/experience:

A post-graduate qualification. In a relevant field such as criminology, social policy, youth work, international development or any other relevant field with a significant research methods component

• For the General Research Officer role: Conducting reviews: Experience conducting or contributing to rapid evidence reviews and/or systematic reviews.  
• For the Youth Understanding Research Officer role: Youth work: Experience working with young people, either as a youth worker or in similar child/young person-facing roles.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, by midnight, 19 July 2020

You will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27 July 2020.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3 August 2020.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

JOB PURPOSE

Be the ambassador and face of QCCA and partner GOAL’s youth services, representing the service to a diverse range of stakeholder.

To be responsible for the strategic planning, operational management and front-line delivery of a multifaceted youth work programme which includes universal, targeted and sports activities aimed at engaging disadvantaged 8–19 year olds across five wards of the London Borough of Camden.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To lead on the planning and design of QCCA and GOAL’s youth work, with the aim of delivering quality and effective youth work with tangible outcomes;

• To develop a regular programme of open and targeted youth projects, activities and events in the wards of Gospel Oak and Haverstock with a particular emphasis on informal personal, social and vocational learning;

• To fundraise to finance this work and to liaise with funders and ensure their requirements are met.

• To manage a volunteer placement programme, working in partnership with schools, youth clubs and other establishments;

• To promote educational attainment, access to apprenticeships and employment opportunities for young people aged 16-21 years using a range of formal and informal methods of engagement including 1-2-1 surgeries

• To work with trainers and facilitators to deliver an accredited qualifications in transferable life skills as well as numeracy and literacy;

• To oversee implementation and monitoring of service level agreements with partners across three other wards of Camden

• To organise and deliver needs based group work with young people utilising a wide range of resources and facilities including music, drama and sport;

• To recruit, line-manage and supervise the work of both salaried and volunteer roles, providing mentoring and coaching in youth-work as required;

• To engage young people in regular consultation, design and delivery of youth projects;

• To work directly with young people delivering activities as well as providing support and access to specialist services, where required;

• To keep records of all youth-work sessions, monitoring data and accredited outcomes;

• To oversee all marketing and outreach of youth programme activities;

• To develop partnerships with local stakeholders including statutory providers, charities, community groups, sports clubs and the local police force;

• To maintain an accurate inventory of resources and facilities;

• To raise the quality standards of QCCA’s Youth Service by adhering to the National Youth Agency guidelines and the London Youth Quality Mark.

• To support the wider objectives and activities of QCCA and it’s key partners 

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.

To succeed we must do two things brilliant. Firstly we must: ‘Find what works’. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. By itself though this won’t matter. We have to be just as good at: ‘Make change happen’. To make change happen, we will have to take people with us. This is where you come in. We won’t change anything unless we can build a powerful coalition of youth charities and youth workers who want to see knife crime reduced. It is your job to build this coalition and make sure that change happens.

Key responsibilities

Most fundamentally, you lead on ensuring that the Youth Endowment Fund successfully makes change happen in the youth sector. You will do this by:

• Building fantastic external relationships and coalitions: If we are to have a chance at changing practices in the youth sector, we will need to build deep and trusting relationships. Every time we run a themed round of funding (from mentoring to detached youthwork) we will want to build a coalition of engaged supporters in the youth sector who care about this area of focus. It will be your job to build and strengthen these relationships.
• Overseeing the change process when the theme is linked to the youth sector: Twice a year we will launch a change process made up of a number of stages. It is your job to ensure this process is followed and that all parts of the organisation play their part:
  • Selecting an area of focus for a grant round, e.g., exclusions, alternative provision, mentoring.
  • Preparing for a grant round, which includes building coalitions, engaging young people, summarising the existing evidence, mapping power and influence.
  • Delivering the grant round, which includes selecting high quality applications, supporting and improving them and selecting the best.
  • Evaluating the outcomes, which includes finding what works and why it works.
  • Delivering impact, which includes scaling up great charities, spreading great practice and pushing for system changes.
• Identifying and delivering the best way to achieve change: In each theme-based grant related to the youth sector round it is your job to ensure we find the best way to achieve change. You decide whether there are particular practices we should look to spread or systems that we should look to change. In all of this you will be looking to work with the coalitions that you have built.
• As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
  • Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You make change happen. You have experience of finding ways to make things happen. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
• You understand the youth sector and youth workers: You really understand how the youth sector works; you have worked in it or with it. You would ideally have some experience working with young people directly. (It is a huge unexpected bonus if you also understand either policing, the education sector or children’s social care).
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
• You write very well: You write clearly without using jargon. You are good at being brief. Your writing is persuasive when you want it to be.
• You are both organised and flexible: You are a very organised person who can juggle multiple things while always being clear what the overall goal is. People comment on how well organised you are. But you are also highly flexible. When the situation changes, you are happy to change your plan.
• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
• You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

You must have this sort of experience

You have …

• Built Partnerships or Coalitions: You have significant experience in building partnerships or coalitions. You can show how these have been effective in delivering change.
• Worked in or with the youth sector: You have worked in or with the youth sector for a number of years, this might be working directly with young people but doesn’t have to be.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

Closing date for applications is 9am 12th July 2020

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

Interview week commencing 27th July

Panel interview week commencing 3rd August

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. We believe it is vital to intervene early in children’s lives to tackle the root causes of crime and violence, and to stem this worrying trend.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the best ways to prevent youth violence, funding promising initiatives and working to scale them up.

Some of the most successful work to reduce violent crime has been when local partners work together, share information and coordinate action. We want to establish the very best approaches to doing this, show clearly why they work and then support them being copied elsewhere. We call this our place-based work.

Key Responsibilities
 

You will lead our place-based work, making sure we do everything possible to find and spread the best ways to help local bodies to work together, sharing information and working in a coordinated way to make change happen. We are excited by the possibilities here, but realistic about the challenges and complexities involved.  You will make sure we navigate these challenges, finding the best ways that local partnerships can succeed.

To do this you will:

• Finalise our place-based strategy and put it into action. This means making sure that we have a ready-to-go plan for finding the most effective ways of getting local bodies to share information and coordinate activity so that youth violence falls.

• Build and nurture strong partnerships in places across England and Wales that are ready to share information and work together to reduce crime.
   
• Find the best way to ensure that partners get the help and support that they need to make our work a success. This could be direct support from you, the wider YEF team / our partners, or by bringing in external help.

• Once we know more about what works in place-based crime reduction, help local partnerships across England and Wales know what works and learn about how to make it happen. 

• Ensure that we learn what works really effectively. Working closely with our Knowledge and Evaluation teams you will make sure we learn what, why, how and where things work (and don’t work).

• As a senior staff member, you will also:
  • Help build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Help to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience. You have a good understanding of how the youth sector, public sector and schools operate.

• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and an 11 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
   
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You are a great and supportive team player.

• You believe evidence and research have an important role to play in improving local practice. You are passionate about making sure local planning and change is informed by the best available evidence.

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

• You make things happen. You have experience of getting to the heart of a strategy and turning it into operational plans. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You know attention to detail, clarity of purpose and strong project management matter.  

You must have this sort of experience:

You have…

• Built Partnerships:  You have significant experience in building strategic, long lasting partnerships. You can show how these have been effective in delivering impact for children and local communities.

• Developed and Delivered Strategy:  You have significant experience of developing strategies. You can then translate them into great ideas and actions.

• Managed complex projects:  You have significant experience of managing projects with a diverse range of stakeholders. 

• Managed senior stakeholders: You have experience of working with local leaders, youth practitioners and/or commissioners on strategy development or programme design.

You might have this sort of experience

It’s not necessary but it would be an extra bonus if you have…

• Experience of turning evidence into credible messages, tools and advice relevant to local practice.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, please go through  this link by midnight, 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3rd August.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

Family and Community Worker
London, SE1

Safer London is a leading charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation. We believe that all young Londoners can have a positive and productive future.

Whatever their history, when a child or young person comes to Safer London, they are just that – a child or a young person. By working alongside young Londoners, their families and peers, as well as the places where they spend their time, we can create a safe London not just for them – but everyone.

We’re looking for an experienced Family Community Worker to join our amazing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to play an integral role in improving the lives of young Londoners, their families, peers and communities.

In this role you will provide support to the families and communities of children and young people affected by violence and exploitation. This new role will involve a particular focus on developing pathways to support families of young Londoner’s leaving custody, as well as developing methods to mobilise family and community led solutions to de-normalise and respond to violence.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- A relevant qualification in social care, health, youth/ community work, criminal justice or demonstrable equivalent experience – e.g. Registered and Qualified Social Worker
- Knowledge of good practice in relation to violence and exploitation; an understanding of trauma; adverse childhood experiences and contextual safeguarding
- Experience of safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk and of managing complex safeguarding issues and liaising with statutory services to safeguard the child and/or meet the needs of adults at risk
- Experience of working in partnerships and relationships with a wide variety of organisations to support the needs of vulnerable young people and adults
- An understanding of best practice and the importance of good quality case recording

We’re committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect anyone who works and volunteers with us to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.

At Safer London we value diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We know that in order to make London a safer place for the young people that live here, we need a diverse range of perspectives, experience and knowledge.

To apply please complete the online application form and submit by 5th July.

To apply for this role please visit our website and complete the online recruitment process.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

Please note we don’t accept CVs.

The Emerging Communities project aims to prevent HIV amongst Latino and Polish MSM in London and promote wellbeing for people living with HIV through peer-led groups and to provide evidence on the efficacy of this HIV prevention and support approach.

The Polish Sessional Worker will  assist the Emerging Communities Manager to develop, implement, and evaluate METRO’s Emerging Communities group HIV prevention and support programme for the remainder of our 2019/2020 MAC AIDS programme. This peer-led HIV prevention and support programme funded by the MAC AIDS Fund seeks to work with influencers and volunteers from the Polish community to deliver effective HIV campaigns and HIV prevention and support interventions.

Social Prescribing Link Worker

Over the last three months they have developed their Social Prescribing service to meet the changing and growing needs of their community caused by Covid-19. These changes fulfil many of their long term ambitions around proactive contact and case management on a larger scale and integrated working across their organisation and Health Partnership.

Social Prescribing Link Worker Responsibilities:

• Provide personalised one-to-one support to individuals referred for urgent support and receiving wellbeing calls
• Take a holistic approach, based on the person’s priorities and the wider determinants of health that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities
• Manage and prioritise a caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and urgent support required by individuals
• Remain the point of contact throughout the individual’s social prescription including follow ups to ensure individuals are provided with ongoing support as required
• Refer and signpost people to community groups, activities and statutory services to meet their urgent needs and ensure individuals are engaged with their local community
• Maintain systems to keep accurate records relating to the delivery and outcomes of the service including processing referral forms, monitoring database and updating case notes as required by both the Centre and Health Partnership
• Support the Health Partnership teams to embed social prescribing into their routine work through attending meetings and supporting case work
• Ensure the Social Prescribing service reflects the vision, mission and values of the Centre and Health Partnership
• Ensure best practice is reflected on, shared and implemented
• Work in accordance with their organisation and Health Partnership policies and procedures including confidentiality, safeguarding, home working, lone working, data protection, information governance, and health and safety
• Work as part of their Social Prescribing team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to project planning and service design
• Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner

Social Prescribing Link Worker Requirements:

• Experience of working in the voluntary sector, primary care, population health, mental health, public health or health promotion
• Experience of working directly with vulnerable people including those with mental health issues, long term conditions, or complex lives
• Experience of a personalised approach to supporting people, coaching and motivational interviewing
• Experience of developing and maintaining good working relationships with organisations and individual
• Experience of maintaining client confidentiality
• Experience working in a multicultural environment. Ability to speak a community language e.g. Bengali (desirable)

About the company:

Our client is a vibrant community centre in the heart of Tower Hamlets. The Centre is a charity with a national and international reputation for its innovative work in inspiring and empowering the people from the local community, using a unique model of integration. It supports over 2,000 people each month.

Location: London, E3 3BT

Job type: Fixed Term Contract, July 2020 to June 2021

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Benefits: 27 days + bank holidays and an extra day off for their birthday. Pro rata for short term and part time contracts.

Closing deadline: 9th July 2020
Interview date: Week commencing 13th July 2020

You may have experience of the following: Social Worker, Social Prescribing Link Worker, Advise, Counselling, Not For Profit, Charity, Advocacy, Nursing, Advice Worker, Service Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Service Delivery, etc.

Ref: 93393

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH WORKER x 2 – MALE*

NORTH MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Full-Time, 40 hours per week, Fixed Term Contract to August 2021

Salary £26,388 p.a. (inc London Allowance)

Youth violence is a problem that significantly affects young people, their families and entire communities. At Oasis, we believe that violence can be prevented by taking a holistic public health approach. Oasis Community Hub Hadley encompasses a range of integrated and diverse community projects which together have a common aim to bring transformation to the whole person and the whole community. Through this holistic approach we have been instrumental in shaping the way young people are supported after experiencing trauma, violence or aggression.

Oasis Youth Support at North Middlesex Hospital is just one of our projects and provides an early intervention and trauma informed approach to tackle the drivers of violent behaviour. We are seeking two dedicated Youth Development Outreach Workers (Male*) to accompany young people who attend North Middlesex Hospital A&E department due to a violent or aggressive incident, on their journey to make positive choices with the aim of breaking the cycle of violence.

The primary purpose of the role is to participate in a youth outreach service, working with young people who come into the A&E department either as a victim or perpetrator of a violent crime.

You will be part of a large team based at the hospital and supported by the Youth Support Project Coordinator, as well as the wider Community Hub Team based in Ponders End, Enfield.

The key responsibilities within the role are:

• Support young people and develop a bespoke mentoring programme that meets their needs.
• Develop and evaluate a model of care that enables young people to benefit from community based interventions.
• Ensure new referrals are received and passed on in a timely manner.
• Assisting the team by facilitating high quality information gathering/sharing to track the support given and the success of the project.

You could be successful in this role if you: 

• Are passionate about making a difference to young people’s lives
• Are a people person with fantastic communication skills
• Have the ability to build positive relationships with young people as well as professionals
• Possess or training towards a relevant professional qualification (e.g. JNC, QTS, QSW), or can demonstrate relevant experience.
• Have experience of working in a youth/community setting affected by youth crime.
• Experience of mentoring / supporting young people
• Are self-motivated, with the ability to take initiative and organise your own time

This role is a challenging but very rewarding opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of some of the most vulnerable young members of society who are living in challenging circumstances. 

We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups.

*Due to the work context of this role there is an Occupational Requirement to be male (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, Para 1).

Closing date for completed applications is 9am Monday 20th July 2020.

Interviews will be held week commencing 6th August at Enfield, North London.

Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Oasis supports Equal Opportunities.  Registered Charity No. 1026487