Lgbtq+ Youth Worker

4 months ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Q:alliance Full time

Responsible to**:Youth Services Manager**

Hours: Part time 3 hours - **Tuesday 5pm to 8pm**

Salary**:£12.00 per hour**

Based**:Bedford**

**Context**

Q:alliance provides support, information and representation for the LGBTQ+ people who live, work and play in Milton Keynes and Bedford. We have detailed knowledge of the issues and challenges that organisations and individuals face locally.

It’s our goal to create more safe spaces and resources to ensure the LGBTQ+ community is well represented and supported.

**Scope**

The Youth Support Worker will facilitate weekly provisions for LGBTQ+ young people, working in a team to develop activities with an emphasis on increasing young people’s wellbeing, inclusion and participation.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Support, information and empowerment - develop and implement resources for group programmes, create a welcoming, safe and enjoyable environment for all and empower young people to make informed choices in their lives. Provide support to young people where this is warranted, ensuring effective signposting to relevant services and liaison with parents and guardians where appropriate.
- Co-production -Support young people’s involvement and participation and encourage them to take on meaningful roles within the organisation. Innovate ways to include young people in all aspects of service delivery, providing opportunities for their feedback and offer platforms for their ideas.
- Inclusivity - look to maximising inclusivity of our youth service. Ensuring that every LGBTQ+ young person feels welcome in our spaces and that activities engage a range of perspectives.
- Data capture and intelligence - Support Q:alliance’s commitment to sustaining a contemporary data and monitoring mechanism, guaranteeing we can deliver thorough evaluations of our services and competent feedback to our funders and stakeholders on the efficacy of our work. Analyse local intelligence directly from LGBTQ+ youth communities and use this to co-produce plans with young people to ensure our youth services are engaging and that a range of needs are met.

**Skills and Experience**

**Expertise**
- Experience working with and supporting young people
- Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate a diverse range of activities for young people
- Knowledge of the challenges affecting young LGBTQ+ people
- Knowledge of issues affecting young people’s mental health and the skills required to build resilience
- Knowledge of safeguarding young people, with the ability to follow policy and procedures in relation to recognising, recording, and responding to safeguarding concerns and liaising with the Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Ability to observe strict confidentiality at all times with respect to matters concerning young people
- Capable to respond to a young person in crisis and establish the right tools and resources to assist them
- Competence to identify training needs and co-ordinate appropriate activities to develop the skills and abilities of volunteers and young people

**Communication**
- A general level of education evidencing good literacy skills and record keeping
- A confident and engaging manner and ability to inspire and motivate young people
- Confidence to communicate with relatives, guardians, social workers and related professionals or advocates of young people
- Knowledge and proficiency in social media and a recognition of the role it plays in young people’s lives

**Behaviours**
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of professional boundaries when working with young people and the importance of consistency
- Passionate about equality and the rights of LGBTQ+ people
- Evident desire to improve service delivery using co-production initiatives with young people
- An ability to listen with empathy and act compassionately
- Model conduct essential for successful teams, such as reliability, honesty and courage

**Desirable**
- Qualifications in youth work, mental health first aid, or the desire to gain relevant qualifications.
- Data, monitoring, and impact training, including up to date GDPR certificate (2 years)
- LGBTQ+ lived experience
- Volunteer management experience

**Other**
- Ability to work flexibly, with occasional work outside of agreed hours
- Commitment to further personal development and training

**What you’ll bring to the team**

You will work closely with the youth services team, collaboratively developing components of Q:alliance’s youth service to best serve LGBTQ+ young people, ensuring we create adequate safe spaces in line with our Safer Spaces policy and guarantee continuity of experience between our multiple provisions for young people, including liaising with our Communications and Engagement Manager to offer safe transitions into adult social spaces. You will help raise the voices of our youth communities and look to ways of sharing good practice with colleagues in and outside of Q:alliance.

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