Youth Worker Support

1 week ago


Birkenhead, United Kingdom Tranmere Rovers Football Club Full time

This post is funded from The National Lottery Million Hours Community Fund and will be targeted at the Bidston St James area in Birkenhead and is a time limited post to March 2026.

**Hours**:
13 hours per week

Evening work
- 3pm-7pm

Availability to cover school holidays.

**Main Duties**:
1. To make contact and develop positive relationships with young people (both individually and in groups) in a range of youth work settings

2. To engage and support young people in the social, recreational, educational and decision-making opportunities

3. To identify the developmental needs and mental health of the individual, and groups of, young people and to build work around these to address this

4. To work with staff and individually to create and manage opportunities for young people to achieve the following
- to encourage, support and challenge young people to take up new experiences
- to encourage, support and challenge young people to make decisions and to do things for to themselves
- to encourage, support young people to participate in activities which support their emotional well being and mental health
- to enable young people to develop their values and self-respect
- to promote equality of opportunity and positive relationships between individuals and groups
- to support other staff in accompanying young people on trips and events both within and outside of the centre, project base or local neighbourhood

5. To assist in the young people’s learning and to evaluate the learning process.

6. To support service development by contributing to planning, delivery and monitoring of local provisions through:

- meeting at the start and conclusion of each session to plan and review the work
- participating in team meetings to undertake planning, monitoring and evaluation processes
- sharing the administrative tasks of running youth work sessions (e.g. membership, attendance, etc.)
- undertaking practical tasks in running the youth work session
- recording any individual planning, monitoring and evaluation of their work

7. To create, implement and deliver informal educative sessions, trips, residentials etc with staff and young people

8. To ensure all aspects of recorded and accredited outcomes are evidenced

**Experience & Skills**

An understanding of Safeguarding procedures and practice

Supporting youth workers in the development of a large scale youth centre/project

Support youth workers in the development of productive partnerships

Support delivery of high-quality face to face youth work in a variety of settings

Challenging inappropriate young people and staff behaviour

Support the planning of structured and targeted youth work programmes in a universal setting

Ensure the effective participation of young people in the development of youth work provision

To support youth workers to deliver information, advice and guidance

To support the achievement of predetermined targets e.g. service level agreement, performance targets.

Support the planning and management of services and activities

Support the methodical approach to ensuring accurate records are maintained

Ability to build effective relationships with colleagues, partners, and young people.

Effective interpersonal skills in dealing with people from a wide range of backgrounds

Able to deal with challenging situations

Good leadership skills

Problem solving skills

Decision making skills

Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing

**Other**:
Enhanced DBS

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months

Pay: £12.55 per hour

Expected hours: 13 per week

**Benefits**:

- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Night shift

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 10/05/2024


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