Youth Worker

**Ref**
- 185676**Number of Posts**
- 1**Grade**
- GRADE 6 or GRADE 5 (dependent on qualifications).**Salary**Term**
- Part-time.**PerM/FTC**
- Permanent.**Required**
- (ASAP ).**Hours**
- 36 hours a week.**Closing Date**
- 24/03/2023.Location

Moorbrook School, Ainslie Road, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 3DB (52 on roll)
Tel: 01772 774752

Summary

Are you keen to make a difference? Do you have resilience, a calm caring nature and an understanding of challenging Behaviour? Can you build trusting professional relationships with young people?

Moorbrook is a small SEMH specialist school for secondary age pupils, we are diversifying our team and looking to appoint a range of new roles. We are seeking learning mentors, HLTAs, a cover supervisor and a youth worker.

You will be part of a strong team who are passionate about securing the best education for our young people many of whom are neurodiverse and/or have had adverse childhood experiences.

As our Youth worker you will be supporting pupils in school and on offsite activities. You will support in the delivery of Personal, health and social education. You may also be called upon to support our outdoor education programme.

This position is part time, term time only, please note the salary quoted is full time equivalent. If successful the salary received will be paid on a pro rata basis. (Full time Qualified Grade 6 starts at £24,054).

For more information about school please see the welcome letter and our website.

Essential Qualifications
- NVQ/RVQ 3 Locally recognised JNC Qualification in Youth and Community Work

Desirable Qualifications
- Professional and/or academic level 3 qualification or equivalent or substantial experience in a relevant technical, specialised or operational field

Essential Experience
- Experience of working with young people in a variety of settings which demonstrate the ability to engage young people in challenging issues and activities which affect their lives

Desirable Experience
- Experience of working with a wide range of other professionals to develop and deliver shared initiatives for children, young people and families

For an informal discussion please contact:
For informal chats or further information please contact Mrs Claire Thompson (Headteacher) 01772 774752, Visits to school encouraged.

Proposed Interview Date:
30/03/2023

Equal Opportunities statement

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