Youth Worker

Student Services supports students at each stage of their journey from pre-entry to post exit. The department has a student orientated culture and puts students’ needs at the heart of everything it does.

As our Youth Worker, you will work as a member of the team to contribute to a wide and varied programme, which will include co-leading and delivering a range of activities to students. You will set up and deliver a programme of Enrichment activities across the College to enrich the College community, whilst pro-actively building positive relationships with students.

You will play a key role in engaging with students around the campus in both a formal and informal basis, to ensure that students are attending lessons and that social spaces, corridors and other communal areas in the College are safe and welcoming and that students maintain reasonable standards of behaviour.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone who has experience of working with and delivering activities to young people, predominantly 16-18 years of age and from a variety of backgrounds. You’ll understand the needs and issues surrounding them and the difficulties students face, and have experience of positively engaging with young people, working with them to improve behaviour, skills and confidence in challenging situations.

Qualified to Level 3 or above in an appropriate area (Youth and Community, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Health & Social Care or IAG), you will have experience of leading on the planning and delivery of enrichment activities and events to support and enhance the student experience and demonstrate the ability to deliver student workshops/presentations or tutorials to a diverse range of students. You will have experience of safeguarding practice/procedures/referral and be willing to achieve a Level 3 safeguarding qualification with the first 6 months of you commencing this role.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 27 days plus up to 8 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees’ physical and mental health. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London’s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students’ success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.