Youth Worker

5 months ago

SuttonInAshfield, United Kingdom West Nottinghamshire College Group Full time

Job description

The successful post-holder will have experience of working with, supporting, and engaging ‘hard to reach’ young people on a one to one basis and in a group setting. Experience in deploying a broad range of formal and informal youth work skills to enable young people to accurately identify and strive to achieve challenging personal and social development goals is essential. The post demands individuals who are able to work confidently and effectively with a range of internal colleagues across the college and external organisations with, and on behalf of, young people. Effective and timely advocacy, communication and interpersonal skills are of paramount importance in this role.

This is an exciting and challenging role for a highly motivated, dynamic and creative individual who is passionate about enabling young people to make positive changes in their lives including fully engaging in learning. An individual who recognises the power of effective education in improving life chances for young people.

The post-holder will ‘champion’ and ‘shadow’ a cohort of targeted young people who have enrolled as students throughout each academic year. To ensure these students flourish during their time at college, the post-holder will liaise on a daily basis with a broad range of staff including heads of department, teachers, trainers, specialist support teams. The responsibilities include;
- Acting as an advocate with and on behalf of targeted young people with the relevant curriculum area’s managers, teachers, trainers and staff to ensure students settle, stay in and thrive through their learning.
- Working alongside targeted students to ensure they fully grasp, commit to and meet the theoretical and practical expectations of their programmes and courses.
- Ensuring targeted students agree meaningful, challenging and achievable targets that are frequently monitored and reviewed in order to ensure they can excel.
- Working effectively to resolution with both students and the college’s specialist support teams including learning support, attendance coaches, safeguarding leads if and when such needs arise.
- Liaising with students’ families and/or carers if and when required. To ensure that parents/carers are made fully aware of their responsibilities to students’ engagement and progress.
- Acting as an advocate with and on behalf of targeted students with relevant external organisations if and when the needs arise.

Good fluency in administrative and strong organisational skills including experience of effectively using databases, processing information and creating and presenting regular reports are essential.

The post-holder will be required to conduct outreach if and when required. This will be to liaise with students and their parents and/or carers as well as with external organisations. Any visit to targeted students’ residences will always be in the presence of another appropriate adult college employee. You will also be required to conduct specific targeted detached youth work as and when needed to promote the college’s provision during non-term time in the summer. All detached youth work activity will include a minimum of two adult college employees.

The role will require you to embed the college’s values, **Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, High Expectations and Responsibility.

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