District Youth

About the role

**District Youth & Community Worker in Training**

Permanent, Full Time

From £25,756 to £28,491 per annum

Location: Basildon

Working Style: Community-based worker

We are currently seeking a District Youth and Community Worker (in training) to support the commissioning and development of programmes and imaginative activities within the local community, whilst encouraging the active participation of young people in developing their own ideas as well as their personal skills.

The post-holder will take ownership and accountability for defined areas of the work programme but will also work flexibly across internal and external teams to support delivery of youth provision in other areas. They will plan and deliver commissioned youth activity and work collaboratively with colleagues and partners and help others to achieve. The post-holder will develop new approaches, based on sound evidence and creative thinking, with a strong focus on improving outcomes for young people and their communities; they will be both proactive and responsive, combining energy and enthusiasm with the tenacity and drive to see things through.

**Job Purpose Summary**

To work with young people and their communities to:

- Work closely with the Senior Youth and Community Worker to help young people and the community to develop the skills and capacity to design and deliver youth provision in their community
- Have supervisory responsibility for the Youth and Community Workers within a hub area
- Make contact and establish relationships with young people and their communities
- Ensure the ‘voice’ of young people is heard in the design and delivery of effective youth work provision
- Encourage and enable young people to participate in a range of educational and personally challenging activities
- Ensure access to information and personal support, which enables young people to develop the confidence and skills to become creative, active and critical participants in the wider community

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage the organisation to a high-performing, customer-centric culture through exemplar behaviour in accordance with ECC’s Values and Core Leadership Behaviours
- Manage employees in working flexibly and collaboratively across structural boundaries as part of project or process teams in support of key outcomes
- Manage the development of organisational capability through good people management, including the training, development, mentoring and coaching of team members
- Thinking creatively, challenging the norms, and constructively challenging those around them to ensure continuous improvement, commercial astuteness, and inspire the same in employees
- Ensure the proper assessment, management and mitigation of risk, including Health and Safety and Business Continuity.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Ability to work in partnership and to influence partners across a range of sectors to support the identification of desired outcomes for young people.
- Experience of working with young people, which may be in a voluntary role
- Ability to build relationships and relate well to young people
- Ability to motivate young people and facilitate young people’s learning
- Commitment to challenging prejudice and ignorance
- Ability to develop work with young people to achieve planned outcomes
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Be flexible to meet young people’s needs
- The job requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area, driver’s license and access to a vehicle will be require

To read more about us please visit: Education

**Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, **or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.**

**Why Essex?** Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Essex County Council is proud to offer an excellent benefits package to all its employees. More information can be found here pay and reward

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