Youth Engagement Worker

Cancer Fund for Children provides emotional, social and therapeutic support to children, young people and families impacted by cancer. This support is provided across the island of Ireland.

This role, which comes at an exciting time of development for the charity, will involve working as part of the all-Island Youth Engagement Team to ensure the ongoing development and delivery of children and young people’s engagement and participation. They will work to ensure their voice is at the heart of our service and support children and young people impacted by cancer to positively affect change.

• Plan and deliver recruitment, training, and a regular programme of activity for ongoing youth engagement structures within the charity.
• Plan and carry out recruitment, training and an ongoing programme of activity for Young Ambassadors.
• Support children and young people to actively campaign/lobby on issues that are important to them.
• Support Cancer Fund for Children in actively engaging with ongoing consultations, public campaigns.
• Work alongside Youth Engagement Team members and wider staff team to ensure children and young people across our service have opportunities to have their voice heard and are given the opportunity to reflect on the support we offer to them.
• Develop, agree and implement, in conjunction with the Youth Engagement Manager, effective operational plans for service delivery within the Youth Engagement Worker remit.
• Work as part of the all-island Youth Engagement Team and where appropriate, feed into ongoing team meetings as part of the Community Team and wider Services Team.
• Ensure that all youth engagement activity is safe, supportive, needs-led and empowering for young people involved, including completion of support plans, regular reviews, assessments of needs and risk assessments.
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with colleagues across the organisation, working in collaboration and supporting the involvement of young people in opportunities across the charity.
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with key external organisations, who may provide support, training and/or collaboration opportunities in relation to participation, campaigning, and advocacy.
• Provide training and direct support to children and young people wishing to get involved in youth engagement.
• Maintain confidential, accurate case records to account for all direct work with young people in receipt of Cancer Fund for Children services.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on all progress against agreed action plan.
• Contribute to the development of new ideas and proposals for delivering services within realistic time frames and budgets.
• Provide accurate data, as determined by the Youth Engagement Manager, on an agreed basis.
• Provide support to volunteers and sessional workers to ensure they receive appropriate direction and resources to fulfil their designated role.
• Work within agreed project expenditure, in line with budgets, up to a limit set by the Youth Engagement Manager.
• To submit all expenses to the Youth Engagement Manager monthly.
• To ensure responsibility of all resources held within the post’s remit, including equipment and facilities.

• To be available for planning, review, supervision, support and appraisal meetings.
• To be cognisant and compliant with Cancer Fund for Children policies and procedures designed to meet service delivery requirements and that apply to the organisation as a whole.
• To be available for on-going professional development / training opportunities and to complete all mandatory training.
• To promote Cancer Fund for Children services available to children and young people and their families.
• To represent Cancer Fund for Children as delegated by the Youth Engagement Manager.
• To perform any other reasonable duties and specific projects deemed to be within the post-holder’s competence, as assigned by management to contribute to the overall aims of the Cancer Fund for Children.