Youth Worker
2 weeks ago
The role
The Youth & Play Service are responsible for providing positive activities borough wide for young people aged 11 to 19 years (25 years with SEN) as well as delivery of Adventure Playgrounds for children aged 8 to 15 years. These services are provided in a variety of building based youth centres and adventure playgrounds across the borough. The service also delivers the Youth Parliament, a commissioning programme of grants for organisations and individuals, the digital youth offer (One Hub) and strategic work with a variety of partners from both the statutory and voluntary sector.
The service leads on the delivery and coordination of cross departmental youth related programmes with the overall aim to raise the profile of services for young people in Southwark so that no young person is left behind. It also aims to place young people at the heart of future service design to ensure that they can influence decisions affecting their lives. This includes ensuring that council's facilities are fit for purpose, of high quality and young people friendly and that services meet their needs and enable them to fulfil their potential.
Role and Responsibilities:
- To work directly with children and young people to support their personal development by providing appropriate programmes of informal education, activities, services and facilities
- To support the promotion of a programme of positive activities across the borough
- To deliver group work programmes and activities
- To work as part of a team developing and delivering activities for young people across the borough to meet annual service targets
- Participate in the annual programme planning to ensure a varied and interesting range of activities for young people
- Responsible for promoting children and young people's participation in all aspects of planning, monitoring and evaluating activity, including but not limited to, the youth parliament
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark's residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark's communities and the council's staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on 16th September 2024
Interview and Assessment: TBC
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
* Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
* Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
* If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme . We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Additional details
About You:
- Able to work as part of a team, sharing knowledge and skills and demonstrates a willingness to learn
- Working flexibly, able to adapt work to respond to the changing needs of the service
- Able to assimilate new procedures and working methods
- Good interpersonal and networking skills, able to identify, establish and maintain appropriate liaison and contacts with other agencies and communities in order to promote the service objectives
- Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, particularly in relation to programme planning and report writing
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service DBS check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
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