Youth Worker

6 months ago

High Wycombe, United Kingdom Action4Youth Full time

**Youth Worker (Weekend) - 10 hours (2 days) - 15 hours (3 days) per week**

**Location**
- High Wycombe

**Position in the Organisation**
- Reports To: Centre Manager/ Deputy Centre Manager/ Senior Youth Worker
- Responsible For: Assisting the Action4Youth core staff to run activities for young people aged 11 - 18 years

**Main Purpose and Scope of the Role**

The Youth Worker will assist the Action4Youth core staff team to run activities for young people aged 11 - 18 years (up to 25 with Special Educational Needs). Groups will include a mixture of young people from different backgrounds, some of whom may have disabilities or additional needs.

The centre is open seven days a week from 4-9pm; this role is for five hours per shift from 3:45-8:45pm each day.

The Youth Worker will help register, supervise and engage with young people and ensure that sessions run safely. The Junction activities are free for all young people.

**Experience of working with young people is essential for this role.**

**Activities structure and the role**:
**The Junction**
- Register young people on arrival.
- Create a welcoming and fun environment for young people to socialise with peers and youth workers
- Follow a structured activity timetable.
- Help to supervise the young people and manage behaviour within the library and youth centre.
- Engage with young people and get involved in activities; these include pool, table tennis, games, cooking and sports activities such as boxing and mixed martial arts.
- Be a positive role model at all times
- Help to lead activities and sessions.
- Help to provide 1:1 support to young people with additional needs.
- Assist with the hot meal distribution and supervision of young people during HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) Programmes
- Help the Action4Youth core staff to clear away, wipe down equipment and clean areas in between sessions.
- Sign out young people at the end of the session
- Ensure Health and Safety and Safeguarding procedures have been followed and incidents reported.

**Duties and Key Responsibilities**
- To monitor young people’s welfare throughout the session and to be especially aware of recorded allergies, physical/mental conditions and dietary requirements, and to follow the procedures in place.
- To liaise and communicate effectively with the Action4Youth core staff
- To have knowledge of and comply with the Data Protection Act.
- To be aware of and comply with Health and Safety procedures.
- Report any behaviour, conversations or comments which are inappropriate within a setting for young people.
- Undertaking responsibility, as part of the team, for all Health and Safety work related matters.
- Working within the guidelines of Action4Youth policies and procedures.

**General Responsibilities**
- Support the continued development of quality standards as specified by Action4Youth.
- To have regard for the vision of Action4Youth and to display a commitment to equal opportunities and to the protection and safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

**Terms and Conditions**

**Place of work**:High Wycombe Library, 5 Eden Place, High Wycombe HP11 2DH

**Transport**:You will be expected to make your own travel arrangements to and from the location listed above.

**DBS Pre-Employment Check**:

- Weekend Youth Worker - 10 hours (2 days) - 15 hours (3 days) per week

**If you want to change lives, call us - we want to hear from you**

Become part of a dynamic charity, with a great mix of people committed to making a real difference for young people through a range of fun and challenging programmes and initiatives.

Action4Youth changes lives and creates better chances for young people by creating opportunities to discover their personal strengths and potential.

We work with young people from all backgrounds and all abilities to make a real difference to their futures.

We are a respected and dynamic charity based in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes but reaching young people across the wider south east region.

This is an opportunity for someone with a can do attitude and a strong desire to make things happen.

You will join a supportive, driven, committed team whose desire to achieve is matched by an intention to enjoy work on a day to day basis. You will be based in High Wycombe. You should expect to enjoy being part of a collaborative, loud and energetic organisation.

**Our Mission**

To support all young people’s growth towards fulfilling and responsible adult lives, Action4Youth develops physical, mental, spiritual, moral and cultural abilities which act as:

- A Springboard towards realising dreams
- A Safety Net for those at risk
- A Voice of influence from the young and for the young

In order to benefit as many young people as possible while maintaining Action4Youth’s financial stability, we partner with those (government, schools, youth clubs, businesses, trusts and foundations and others) who share our mission.

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