Youth Worker - Women's Worker Job London area,Greater London England UK,Social Work

Location: Greater London

Role overview

New Horizon Youth Centre runs a busy day centre from Monday to Friday. Open from 10:00am - 4pm every day, we provide basic needs to young people experiencing homelessness, such as breakfast and lunch, clothes, toiletries, showers, laundry facilities and Wi-Fi.

This role is part of the NHYC Youth Work Team. The Youth Work Team plans and delivers a range of services for young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. This includes jobs, education and training, arts, sports, men's and women's sessions, youth participation and activities.

The role is based at the centre a minimum of 3 days per week, working with young people face-to-face. During the week, you will support all young people and work alongside the youth work team, ensuring that young people can access basic needs as well as directly delivering or supporting youth work activities and life skills workshops in our day centre.

The Youth Worker (Young Women) has a specific focus supporting young women in our service experiencing multiple and complex needs. This role will specifically lead on facilitating and delivering our weekly Women's and Non-Binary Space as well as take the lead in managing a complex casework with young women, many of whom are affected by community-based violence, homelessness, mental health and substance misuse.

We are committed to trans-inclusive, gender-affirming practice throughout our service, and our Women's Worker will share this commitment and bring it to life in their day-to-day work with young people.

Key details

Contract type and hours: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week, Monday-Friday).
Salary: Starting salary for role is £32,136.00. The salary scale is: AP26 - AP30 (£32,136.00-£35,778.00)
Location: New Horizon Youth Centre, 68 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JR
Final date to receive applications:9am, Monday 9th November

Key objectives:

To contribute to the daily running of the day centre delivering a holistic and trauma informed service to young people aged 16 to 24 who are facing homelessness.
As part of the Youth Work Team, support the delivery and development of an engaging and multi-faceted life skills programme.
To lead on delivery of services for young women at the centre, including leading and facilitating our weekly Women's and Non-Binary Space and leading on young women's casework.
To maintain and develop a network of relationships with external agencies and specialists (especially those from the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector) to expand on and broaden our workshop and activities offer to young people, with a special focus on young women.

Reporting to: Head of Services and Services Manager (Youth Work Team)

Main tasks and responsibilities Young people's services

To support young people accessing the day centre services. This will include:

Working within the Youth Work Team to ensure young people receive a high-quality service from the point of initial registration to move-on into accommodation and beyond.

Planning and delivering a range of 1-1 and group work sessions which respond to the needs of diverse groups of young people, and listening to young people’s views, ideas, and feedback.

Leading on and developing and delivering specific gender-informed workshops and services for young women who access the centre, including planning and facilitating a regular Women's and Non-Binary Space.

Working on a 1-1 basis with a case list of young women with multiple and complex needs, which will include completing risk assessments, goal setting, safety planning, safeguarding referrals (e.g. MARAC
- Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences), refuge and specialist accommodation referrals, advocacy, identifying appropriate external referrals (e.g. health referrals, VAWG sector) and…