Youth Leader

**Youth Leader**

**Salary: £12 per hour**

**Hours: 3.5 hours a week every Thursday Afternoon / Evening**

**Location: Eastleigh - SO50 9SB**

**Benefits**:

- Employer pension contribution of 3%
- 25 days holiday FTE, accruing an additional day for each year of service up to 30 days.
- 50% discount on nursery fees.
- Daycamps discounts: 1 week free and 1 week at 50% per child per annum.
- Campsite and activities discounts at YMCA Fairthorne Manor
- Free hall hire for parties, depending on availability
- 30% discount on food

**Job Purpose**

This role will work as part of the YMCA Eastleigh team, planning and delivering a weekly youth group in conjunction with the Community Manager. Young people will undertake activities in 1 group only: Ages 11-16 on Thursdays from 3.15pm to 6.15pm. The postholder will programme activities along with the Community Manager which will be partly physical, partly crafty, partly relaxing. The post holder will co-ordinate a group of volunteers, other YMCA youth workers and lead the youth group.

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**
- At all times work within the YMCA Way
- Plan, initiate, design and deliver engaging, high quality and relevant activities for young people. Actively engage young people and partners in the design of content.
- Train and support volunteers to aid in the delivery of the programme and organise cover when needed.
- Collect attendance and monitoring data, including regular informal and quarterly formal feedback sessions with young people.
- Work in a trauma-informed way when young people’s behaviour is challenging and signposting to other services where necessary.
- Provide risk assessments for all activities and help create procedures to support the smooth and safe running of the group.
- Produce a monthly summary of any accidents, incidents and near misses.
- Promote a culture of safeguarding, complying with YMCA’s Safeguarding and Child Protection policies at all times, taking any concerns regarding young people’s health or wellbeing to the Community Manager or senior management.
- Positively engage with the wider YMCA team, customers, and all visitors.
- Act in the interests of your own safety and the safety of others at all times
- Attend training sessions and staff meetings as necessary.
- Anything else reasonably requested by the management of the charity.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Experience in leading and inspiring a team
- Experience of working with young people and delivering youth programmes.
- An understanding of the issues facing young people within their community.
- An understanding of the principles of risk assessment.
- A basic level of computer literacy.
- An understanding of equality and diversity.
- Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding good practice.
- First Aid Certified or willingness to train

**Personal Attributes**
- A genuine enthusiasm for the work of the charity.
- A commitment to supporting young people to achieve their potential.
- Friendly and personable approach, with the ability to communicate positively with young people, families, YMCA team members and the wider community.
- Good communication skills, both verbally and written.
- Punctual and reliable with sound organisational skills.
- Ability to use initiative.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Part-time hours: 3.5 per week

**Salary**: £2,184.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Childcare
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Eastleigh, SO50 9SB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: EAST/YL/3