Creative Arts Youth Worker

7 days ago


Dagenham, Greater London, United Kingdom Future Youth Zone Full time

Role Profile

Job title
Youth Worker, Creative Arts

Salary:

£11.95 per hour

Reporting to:

Arts Co-ordinator/Youth Work Team Leader

Holidays:

34 days including bank holidays & birthday day off pro rata

Location:

Future Youth Zone

Hours:

Sessions available over 7 evenings & weekends a week.

To Apply:

The Person:


You will be a Youth Worker committed to creative arts and creating positive relationship with young people, ideally with an ice breaker, game or challenge for every occasion.

Arts workers are a key part of the Youth Zone, working directly with young people and teaching, coaching and encouraging participation with plenty of enthusiasm, humour and energy.


Key Dates:

Closing date: 11th August 2023

Interview Dates:
w/c 18th August 2023


Job Purpose:


The Arts, alongside sport and Youth Work is at the heart of the Youth Zone has offer to young people.

The Arts offer at Future is wide ranging and include visual arts, music, media, dance and drama.

As a member of Arts team you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and creative arts programme people that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental.

You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single or range of arts activities in line with your own specialism, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills.


About Future Youth Zone:


Barking and Dagenham Youth Zone, named "Future" by local young people, was the first Youth Zone in London to be opened by the national charity, OnSide in Spring 2019.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the delivery team and play your part in shaping opportunities for London's young people and supporting full time Youth Workers and Youth Work Managers.


Future, like all OnSide Youth Zones, exists to give young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged, somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to.

Each Youth Zone is open 7 days a week, at weekends and during school holidays, with the purpose of supporting young people to become happy, healthy and successful adults.


Future's state-of-the-art £6.5 million building on Parsloes Park provides young people with access to a range of activities, offering them the opportunity to try new things, meet new friends and gain support from friendly, warm and positive staff and volunteers.

The facilities include a 3G pitch, a gym, sports hall, recreation area and dance, arts, music and media suites, with facilities equipped for a wide range of sporting, artistic, cultural and general recreational activities and targeted services.

To access a Youth Zone, young people aged or 25 with additional needs) simply pay 50p per visit and £5 per year membership.


Find out more by watching this video of Monique, Owen and Bola talking about how the Youth Zone has changed their lives.


Duties and Responsibilities - General

  • Be a role model for young people and present a positive "can do" attitude
  • Take personal responsibility for own actions
  • Commit to a culture of continuous improvement
  • Work within the performance framework of Future Youth Zone and OnSide
  • Represent Future Youth Zone positively and effectively in all dealings with internal colleagues, and external partners
  • Comply with all policies and procedures, with particular reference to safeguarding, codes of conduct health and safety and equality and diversity to ensure all activities are accessible
  • Represent Future Youth Zone positively and effectively in all dealings with internal colleagues, and external partners
  • To be alert to issues of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring the welfare and safety of Youth Zone members is promoted and safeguarded, and to report any child protection concerns to the designated Child Protection Officers using the safeguarding policies, procedures and practice (training to be provided)
  • To assist with any promotional activities and visits that take place at the Youth Zone
  • To actively promote the Youth Zone and positively contribute towards increasing Youth Zone membership

Duties and Responsibilities - Detailed

  • To work directly with children and young people to support the planning and delivery of safe, fun and structured arts sessions within the Youth Zone which are progressive and reflect the needs of young people
  • To contribute to an arts programme that is high quality and meets the needs of the young people, including young people with additional needs and disabilities and young people who typically don't engage in arts
  • To deliver art sessions including print making, crafts, fashion, têxtiles and painting to young people, using art as a medium of communication.
  • To support an arts programme that contributes to the wider youth work agenda, supporting the development of young people
  • To confidently manage and establish positive relationships with groups of children and you


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