Youth Worker (Qualified)

Youth Worker (Qualified)
Reports to: Project Manager
Location: County Durham
Hours: Full Time & Part Time Hours Available
Contract: Fixed Term to March 2025
Salary: £25,965 - £28,847 per annum, pro rata

About the organisation

Our client aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver their mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential.

About the role

Working as a member of our dedicated Youth Team you will engage with targeted communities to provide and promote inclusive opportunities for young people and young adults to develop positive working relationships that will enable them to achieve their potential.

You will provide a valuable resource for the charity to enable it to achieve the Trust objectives. Dealing with a variety of Youth project delivery tasks in a diverse and busy internal and external environment, ensuring deadlines are met whilst maintaining quality.

A bit about you

Their ideal candidate will have:

• Youth Work Qualification at Level 3 or above
• Proven experience of working with either children and young people or other vulnerable groups.
• An ability to set up and run groups and to record the progress of individuals within the groups.
• Some understanding of, and a sensitive approach towards the situations, needs and difficulties faced by young people and particularly by young carers.
• An ability to work positively as part of a team and independently, seeking support from colleagues where required
• Excellent communication skills

Closing date: Noon on Friday 3rd May 2024

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home:
This organisation wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your difference and together you will make the charity a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

They ensure that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.

No agencies please.