Part Time Youth Project Workers- Dwyfor area

Part Time Youth Project Workers - Dwyfor area

Salary: GBP 1,892.00 - 1,936.00 per year

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Details

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Pecyn Gwybodaeth

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.

(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)

For further information about this post please contact Sion Bryn Roberts on

Interview date to be confirmed.

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel:

E-Mail:
Swyddiw.cymru

CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 18/02/2026

The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.

If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.

Personal attributes

• Essential:
  Able to work well and create a solid relationship with young people
• Essential:
  The ability to work as a member of a small team, working in the evenings and weekends
• Essential:
  Able to work unsociable hours
• Desirable:

Qualifications and relevant training

• Essential:
• Desirable:
  Level 3 qualification in Youth Work.
• Desirable:
  Level 1 Child Protection Course

Relevant experience

• Essential:
  Experience of working with young people
• Essential:
  Experience of providing projects / activities for young people

Skills and specialist knowledge

• Essential:
  Effective face to face communication skills with young people
• Essential:
  Fluent in both Welsh and English
• Essential:
  Good organisational and administrative skills
• Essential:
  Able to work with young people.
• Essential:
  Strong commitment to the principles of Equal Opportunity and Child Protection
• Desirable:
  Knowledge of current developments in the youth work field

Language requirements

Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Able to maintain a fluent conversation on a number of various everyday subjects, and discuss cases involving the field of work. Able to follow a discussion in Welsh, in Clear Welsh, on familiar matters relating to the post. Able to contribute to the conversation and answer questions.

Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues erstand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).

Writing - Intermediate Able to write letters for a specific purpose, e‑mails and short reports in Welsh and English, using vocabulary and simple phrases that are familiar to the field of work. (They will need to be checked before being sent out).

Purpose of the post

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibility for functions

• Will be responsible for the equipment used at the time

Main duties

• Leader in Charge to present projects and activities for young people in their communities.
• Ensure that young people feel safe, receive support, are appreciated, learn how to take control over their lives and identify and oppose harmful influences that may impact them.
• Assist the Youth Worker to identify the interests and needs of young people in order to develop sessions and projects and organise events and activities.
• Assist the Youth Worker to offer a range of learning experiences for young people using informal youth work methods, within communities, that are suitable for young people
• Assist the Youth Worker to present courses that lead to accreditation (Agored Cymru, ASDAN Youth Challenge and Achievement Schemes, Children's University)
• Adhere to all the employer's relevant policies and other statutory requirements, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Child Protection.
• Input required information needed about young people in the information gathering system
• Ensure that the Young Person's voice is heard in everything that is offered and developed
• Attend staff meetings as required
• Attend training for youth workers organised by or on behalf of the Council
• Responsibility for self‑development.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's…