Casual Youth Support Worker

Job Introduction

The Youth Service delivers approximately 90 sessions of youth work each week across all 30 Wards within the Bradford District. We are looking to recruit new Casual Youth Support Workers vacancies to support the delivery of youth work sessions. Post holders will engage positively with young people and deliver quality youth work. We can offer further training to suitable applicants.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing relationships with 11–19 year olds and up to 25 year olds for young people with disabilities.
• Working directly with young people to enable them to broaden their horizons and engage in positive activities
• Helping to design and develop youth work responses underpinned by the Youth Service cornerstones of Equality, Participation, Education and Empowerment.
  
  Required experience:
• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Youth work or experience of working with young people, aged 11-19 and up to 25 (for young people with disabilities) in a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Uses and has applied knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures and regulations including risks in Youth Work
• Uses a range of basic IT packages
• Ability to adopt a process of continual improvement and suggest ways of working more efficiently and effectively to improve service delivery.
• Knows and understands how to use, interpret, handle and communicate information
• Demonstrate knowledge of issues, which are important and impact on the lives of young people.
• Identify what are the most important skills when building relationships with young people and give an example of a situation when you have used them effectively.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply an understanding of equality of opportunity and voluntary participation in a youth work situation.
• To deliver the skills to enable young people to work effectively in groups
• To work as part of a team to deliver youth work.

An Enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

You must be able to work outside of regular office hours including regular evenings and weekends.

If you are interested in joining our team and would like some further information, please contact Calais Lawrence Advanced Practitioner Bradford South Youth Service on [email protected].

Equal Opportunities

We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee directly or indirectly on the grounds of gender, marital status, gender re-assignment, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic background, religion or belief nationality or age. And, as an equal opportunities employer, the Council strives to employ the best qualified people from a diverse range of applicants.

The RESPECT Allyship Programme is also available to all staff, which offers the opportunity to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides added benefits and resources to its members. This is part of the RESPECT Campaign, which is the Council’s Internal Equalities Vision for staff and its aim to build a truly inclusive workforce, where everyone can be their true selves at work.