Targeted Worker

**Role Profile**

**Job Role: Targeted Worker Darwen**

**Accountable to**:Targeted Team Leader

**Location**: Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zones

**Salary**: Up to £25,000 depending on experience

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week

**About Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone**

Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone is a 21st century youth hub located at the heart of Blackburn & Darwen, open to young people aged 5 to 25 years old, aiming to change the prospects offered to young people in the area. Our vision is to be at the heart of the community, collaborating to create a more cohesive and prosperous Blackburn and Darwen.

Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone is built on land where, 100 years ago, Blackburn’s first electricity generating station once stood. On the place where electricity first came to and powered the town, the Youth Zone is now powering the community through the energy and creativity of young people. What also makes us distinctive is our relationship with thelocal business community, who have wholeheartedly embraced the concept and pledged to work together to raise the aspirations of our town’s young people, equipping them with life skills, increased confidence and independence which in turn will regenerate our town from the bottom up.

We are one of the leading youth organisations in Blackburn & Darwen, with a membership of over 2,500 young people. We are open 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year and offers over 40 different activities and opportunities in our open access youth club.

**Our Values and principles**

**OUR VISION** - Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone to be at the heart of the community, collaborating to create a more cohesive and prosperous Blackburn and Darwen.

**OUR MISSION** - To inspire all, to have fun, meet different people, try new things and challenge themselves to be the best they can be.

**OUR IMPACT** - The difference we want to make

We want to make a tangible difference to the lives of young people. Our work will result in young people:

- Being happier
- Engaging positively with young people from across Blackburn with Darwen
- Living healthier more active lifestyles
- Having increased opportunities to develop and achieve
- Feeling more empowered and connected with their surrounding community
- Respecting and engaging with the environment through new and exciting experiences
- Having increased aspirations and increased economic opportunities

**OUR VALUES**

**H**onesty

**E**xcellence

**A**ccountability

**R**espect

**T**eamwork

**Main Purpose**

Working at our Darwen base, the position will lead and manage a number of targeted projects directly with young people aged 8 to 21 years old. Working under the Targeted Team Lead, you will lead group activities for young people with known vulnerabilities (referred by a multi-agency panel) and actively lead an outreach team to effectively provide community-based engagement, positive activity and make appropriate referrals to local grassroots provisions.

You will need to understand the different levels of needs, how to proactively engage young people with known vulnerabilities and with existing barriers to participation and be agile in working with young people in different settings and environments, including centered base youth work, onsite intervention/prevention techniques and open access youth clubs.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to meet KPIs, which may include, however, not limited to, caseload management, youth work practices informal learning delivery and data/administration.

**Main Responsibilities**
- To plan and deliver the outreach and detached programme ensuring that it inspires and motivates young people in a fully inclusive, safe, exceptional, cost-effective, relevant and planned programme, always promoting the values of Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone across different settings.
- To plan and deliver nurturing and enriching activities to young people with known vulnerabilities and barriers to participation, aiming to support their transition into universal services.
- Design programmes that encourage young people to engage in more positive and constructive activity within their own community.
- To establish relationships of trust and mutual respect with young people and offer them support and encouragement, addressing key issues including health, self-esteem, independent living and managing relationships
- Hold a caseload of young people identified in need of support, providing tailored 1:1 sessions and monitoring and recording sessions on CRM systems
- Responding to behaviour incidents through effective intervention and in line with the club's behavior management policy.
- Signpost young people to appropriate external services (street-based and through formal referral pathways)
- Ability to understand and work with other agencies and youth providers, ensuring that there is an opportunity to share information and encourage a holistic approach across the town
- Evidence work being completed by sharing images, case