Youth Worker

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 youth workers to join our team.

The Role

If you are the ideal person we're looking for, you are a person who loves young people and helping them thrive. Great quality youth work is at the heart of what we do at Rise:61. You'll take the lead on delivering a range of activities, ensuring young people have access to sessions that are fun, safe, challenging and developmental.

You'll create a welcoming and positive environment within each session you run, helping young people of all abilities make friends, learn new things, build confidence and have fun. You'll provide encouragement and guidance, support and challenge and act as a positive role model.

For our part, we will be a charity that you love being part of, offering you all the support and encouragement you need to not just do the job well, but flourish as a person. How we care for our team really matters to us, and this will reflect in how this job looks and how we look after you. That said, this role will challenge and push you too, but we will journey alongside you helping you develop and learn along the journey.

About you

This is a chance to use your passion to inspire young people, help them stay active, grow in confidence and feel part of a community where they belong. You will enjoy coaching and motivating young people, supporting them to feel at ease and grow in confidence.

You will be comfortable working in a values-driven organisation with an innovative spirit, which means that you'll need to muck in with all sorts of youth and community related activities.

We are particularly interested in applications from the community from people who would like to grow and develop personally and professionally through this role and are keen to learn.

If you have a particular skill set in an area such as bike riding and jumping, drama, creative arts, or simply a passion for engaging with young people and seeing them thrive, we'd love to hear from you. (N.B. in the coming weeks a pump and jump track will be built on the estate and we want to maximise our engagement with young people in this space).

We are deliberately advertising this post beyond our own network because we hope we'll find applicants with a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We value diversity in all forms, and we believe that increased diversity will only make our charity better.

We encourage any successful candidate to live on the estate we serve.

Key Responsibilities

• To plan and deliver a program of high quality activities for young people in our after school clubs (drama, creative, active, bike…) drop-ins and community events
• Organise and deliver high quality trips and residentials, leading on particular activities as required.
• To motivate, encourage and support young people to try activities and participate fully in sessions, building strong relationships with them in the process.
• To effectively promote activities in the community and engage with young people out and about through detached youth work.
• To complete set up and set down for the activities you run or help with, compiling resources as required to ensure you are well prepared.
• Provide intentional support and coaching to specific young people as required, helping them to grow and develop and take on areas of responsibility
• Provide quality mentoring to individual young people, providing a consistent and positive adult relationship in accordance with our safeguarding policy.
• Keep yourself informed of the other support and opportunities in the local area, signposting young people to these opportunities as needed.
• Planning and leading specific elements of our community events, whilst helping the wider team with their successful delivery
• Supporting the team to provide excellent alternative education provision by helping with the preparation, delivery and clear up with sessions.
• Working alongside the Rise:61 team to recruit, train and look after volunteers for each of our activities, supporting them in the activities you run to achieve their potential in their given role.
• To deal with any problems that arise in Rise:61 activities, managing behaviour in line with our guidelines
• Develop and maintain and professional relationships with youth people that attend Rise:61 activities
• Represent Rise:61 positively and effectively in all dealings with internal colleagues and external partners
• To be alert to issues of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring the welfare and safety of Rise:61 young people are promoted and safeguarded, reporting any safeguarding concerns in line with our policies and procedures (training provided)
• Build positive relationships with the parents of our young people and our other partners on the estate, clearly communicating with them throughout.
• Working alongside the Rise:61 team to complete all related admin tasks associated with activities in a timely and accurate manner - including session registers, risk assessments, parental consent, organising venues, completing monitoring forms etc.
• To support Rise:61's fundraising activities
• To be a great team player, bringing new skills and ideas to our current offer.
• Comply with all policies, procedures and codes of conduct with particular reference to Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Data Protection, EDI.
• Meet with your line manager and complete any agreed supervision as agreed.
• Actively participate in any training where necessary.
• To be a hands-on team member, helping with other duties relating to the general charitable purposes of Rise:61 as and when they may be required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL:

• Passion to work with young people and ability to relate well to them.
• Belief in the community of Bemerton Heath and a desire to invest in the young people and families living here.
• Desire to learn and invest in your personal and professional development.
• Experience of working with young people from a range of backgrounds and with challenging needs.
• Able to mix easily with people of all types and backgrounds.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Good organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent timekeeper
• Excellent listening skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people, parents, team members and the wider community
• Ability to plan and evaluate activities delivered and ensure they keep improving and developing
• Stamina - ability to maintain high energy levels throughout the day.
• Reliable, honest, committed, with a strong work ethic.
• Computer literate.
• Willingness to work unsociable hours when needed
• Alignment to Rise:61 values and ethos.
• Flexibility and willingness to cover staff absence, events, holidays
• Satisfactory Enhanced DBS clearance and a commitment to safeguarding.

DESIRABLE

• A relevant qualification in Youth Work, Community Development or similar.
• Resident of Bemerton Heath with good local knowledge and contacts and a passion for this community.
• Driving license.
• Specific skills or areas of interest that you can share with young people to develop our youth work offering

Note - This job description is intended as a general guide to the duties attached to the post and is not an inflexible specification. It may therefore be subject to change in details or emphasis to reflect the changing needs of the organisation, always in consultation with the post holder.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Send us your CV and a covering letter (or short video) saying why you want to work for Rise:61 and what skills and experience you have that make you suitable for this role.

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

Pay: £25,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 15 – 37.5 per week

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 19/11/2025

Expected start date: 08/01/2026