Youth Engagement Worker

4 weeks ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Positive Steps Full time

**Title**: Youth Engagement Worker

**Hours**: Full or part time

**Salary**: £23,749.72 per annum

**Reporting**: Project Manager (UKSPF)

**Contract**: Fixed term until 31st March 2025

**Reference**: PS/YEW/06

Do you enjoy working with young people, and making a difference?

We are looking to confident person to join our team as a Youth Engagement worker. You seek out, and provide support for young people aged 15 plus, providing them with confidence and skills to be successful in the next phase of their lives.

Support will include 1:1 and group work activities in community settings across Oldham and Rochdale. The Youth Engagement worker will work closely with Career Advisers and other Youth Engagement Workers to develop creative methods to engage and work with young people to help them to achieve positive outcomes. Vital to the job role, is the ability to relate to and communicate with our young people effectively, many of whom will be experiencing significant barriers. The role also includes working to targets and establishing good relationships with schools, colleges, learning providers, employers and key partners.

You would be expected to travel throughout Oldham and Rochdale and the role may include some home working.

**Closing Date**: Tuesday 18th June 2024, 1pm

**Interviews**: Friday 21st June 2024

**JOB PURPOSE**

To provide support for young people to enable them to move into education, employment and training (EET) or to sustain a EET opportunity

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide activities and interventions for young people to improve EET outcomes
- Provide activities and interventions for young people in line with relevant legislation, quality standards and best practice to safeguard the service
- Maintain relationships with other professionals to improve outcomes for young people
- To undertake accurate, timely recording using digital case load management systems to meet contract requirements
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet service and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager

**Key Relationships - Internal & External**
- External - Employers, Youth Community and Education Providers
- Internal - Staff and volunteers

**Experience**
- Demonstrable experience of working with young people
- Demonstrable experience of developing productive and effective relationships with young people
- Demonstrable experience of partnership working
- Demonstrable experience of communicating through verbal and written presentations
- Demonstrable experience in promoting diversity

**Knowledge**
- Awareness of Education and Guidance Services
- Awareness of safeguarding legislation and guidance, implementation of Child Protection and vulnerable adult Procedures and the boundaries of professional relationships
- Awareness of adolescent development
- Understanding of Health & Safety legal requirements and best practice

**Skills**
- Primary skills in engaging, supporting and motivating young people
- Primary communication and presentational skills
- Primary skills in creativity and original thinking with the ability to develop practical solutions to problems
- Primary inter -personal and team working skills
- Basic skills in literacy and numeracy
- Primary skills in Microsoft Office and database systems

**Personal Attributes**
- Sound judgement and awareness of political sensitivities
- Resilient and able to work independently as required
- Sound professional and tactical judgement and the ability to establish priorities and principles
- Commitment to Positive Steps vision and value

**Additional Requirements**
- Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of customers and the organisation
- Ability to travel throughout the region
- Evening and weekend work required
- Enhanced DBS required

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £23,749.72 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Oldham, OL1 1DJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you willing to have an Enhanced DBS check?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oldham, OL1 1DJ

Reference ID: PS/YEW/06

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