Youth Support Worker
Job description
Both roles will work with young people aged 14-24 years, facing disadvantage, and support them to engage positively with others from a different background and increase personal, civic and employability skills. .
Responsibilities
- Ensures youth development approach and principles are embedded in delivery and lead to change, with co-design processes creating a genuine climate for engagement and clear role in design and delivery.
- Contribute to the engagement, recruitment, and selection of participants within agreed profile. Proactively build networks and collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with parents/guardian to ensure consent (as required) and support for young person and act as an advocate for young person's interests.
- Contribute to induction, baseline & final assessments across personal, social, cultural, and employability areas and co-design of individual personal training plan based on identified need.
- Assume leadership in creating and fostering a climate which encourages positive growth and personal development in the participants.
- Lead and mentor, coach, and support young people to reflect on development and facilitate personal, social, cultural growth and build employability.
- Ensure effective participant recording systems and caseload management.
- Contribute to programme design with programme team. Deliver (both online and face to face, as needed) non-accredited training to increase personal, social, cultural development and employability.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Has or currently studying 3rd level qualification in related field plus 3 years paid experience working with young people. Or, Minimum Level 4 qualification in related field plus 3 years experience working with young people.
- Two years paid experience of facilitating non-formal learning and delivering accredited qualifications.
- Experience of recruitment and engagement of young people onto programmes.
- Experience of individual needs assessment, mentoring young people facing multiple/complex issues, recording and reporting on work.
- Experience of undertaking funder-related duties and working in a target driven environment.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills including planning and prioritisation of work.
- Ability to work on own initiative, be self-motivated, flexible and work under pressure.
- Computer literacy (use of Microsoft Outlook/Word).
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Good social skills for internal and external communication.
- Ability to work as a key member of a team.
- Commitment to own development.
- Ability & willingness to work outside of normal hours on some occasions.
- Full clean driving license and access to transport, or alternative arrangements to fulfil the travel needs of the project.
Desirable Skills
- GCSE Maths and English (Grades A-C) OR Level Two Literacy & Numeracy or above.
- Experience of working with young people participating in a range of creative and/or outdoor learning opportunities.
- Category D1 on licence.
- Vacancy ID
- 1652589
- Job ref.
- YSW001
- Job Sector
- Childcare and Social Work
- Area
- Derry or Londonderry
- Location
- Derry/Londonderry
- Salary
- £25,545 per annum
- No. vacancies
- 2
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Weekly hours
- 37.5
- Published date
- 23/04/2024
- Closing date
- 07/05/2024
- Worktime
- To be confirmed.