Job Title: Sessional Lead Youth Worker

Salary: Competitive, negotiable dependent on experience

Hours: Evenings/Weekends

Location: Sessional delivery across East Durham – Seaham, Shotton, Horden, Murton, Peterlee

Responsible For: No direct reports, responsibility for the support of Volunteers and Support Workers

Reports To: Youth & Community Engagement Officer

About the role

Working as a member of the Youth Team as a Level 3 Qualified Youth Worker, you will lead in engagement of targeted communities to provide and promote inclusive opportunities for young people. The postholder will provide a valuable resource for Groundwork North East & Cumbria 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

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This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service

About you

We are seeking self-motivated, enthusiastic sessional Lead Youth Workers to join our team. Working in targeted communities to develop positive working relationships with young people and enable them to achieve their potential. These roles will support the development of a full range of personal and social development opportunities for young people, meeting their needs through community engagement and capacity building.

You will be highly motivated and with a good understanding of both legal and ethical issues as well as best practice in relation to working with young people. You will have a creative, innovative and sensitive approach to the situations, needs and difficulties faced by young people and young carers. Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) are essential to support the achievement of the project’s objectives.

For further information please contact Kathryn Green (Youth & Community Engagement Officer) on 07900 696139.

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Application Form

Sessional Lead Youth Worker – Job Description

All completed applications should be emailed to [email protected]

Closing Date: We are recruiting on a rolling basis with applications closing at midnight on Sunday 31st December 2023

Make yourself at home

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our 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 we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

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