Youth Support Worker

Overview

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Are you enthusiastic about developing excellent and inclusive services to enhance their wellbeing, happiness and opportunities? Our new Partnership with the Co‑op is an exciting innovative project where we aim to support over 750k young people, aged 10‑25 years across 2 years. To deliver this, we are recruiting a team of Youth Support Workers across 20 locations.

Location of this post:
Brent.

• Improve mental wellbeing
• Improve access to basic needs (food)
• Improve access to opportunities

• Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10‑25 years.
• Skilled in designing and delivering group work sessions for young people.
• Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Flexible to work evenings and weekends where required to meet the needs of the service.
• Able to work in partnership with Co‑op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre.

• Deliver group work sessions and individual support to young people.
• Work closely with Co‑op, Children’s Services and the community to support young people.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of services.

• Part‑time role of 22 hours.
• Supportive 1:1's and ongoing personal development.
• Flexible working arrangements.