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Youth Support Worker

1 month ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom St John Ambulance Full time

About the Role

The NHS Cadets Project aims to attract and develop young people, preparing them to sustain themselves in health volunteering opportunities. Through a 36 week programme, we will be helping young people to not only gain new skills and knowledge but to gethands on experience in the NHS.

We aim to specifically widen access for 14 to 18-year-olds who come from groups which have not traditionally entered health volunteering, such as marginalised young people, those in care, not in education, employment or training or from ethnic minority backgrounds.These are split into two age programmes; 14 - 16 Foundation and 16 - 18 Advanced.

As Youth Support Worker, you will assist with planning and delivering the NHS Cadets programme to young people and you’ll help create a safe, inclusive and open environment where young people can learn important life skills to prepare them for health volunteering.

We aim to deliver the programme face to face, however some virtual delivery maybe required for a blended approach.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

This post is a 3 hour a week fixed term contract for 12 months. It requires face to face delivery for two hours one evening a week and the other hour is flexible across the week for planning

Can be based at any manned SJA Office

About You

To be successful in this role you will have experience of working in a similar position and a passion for working with young people. You will have experience of working directly with young people especially those from marginalised communities.

About Us

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.

Over the next decade, we have bold ambitions to help transform out-of-hospital care, having a positive impact on the people we treat and the communities we serve.

We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.

You will receive:

- Competitive salary & pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts - you’ll have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping.

Interview Date: tbc

Application Review Date: 10/02/2023


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