PZN Youth CIC: Youth Worker – Team Lead

Hours:

16 hours per week ( 0.4 FTE)
Salary: £35,360 (pro rata)

Location:

Penzance

Are you passionate about improving the lives of young people?
Do you enjoy leading others, ensuring high standards of safeguarding, and creating safe, inclusive and engaging spaces for young people to thrive? Can you bring creativity, organisation and empathy to your work with young people and staff teams alike? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

At PZN Youth CIC we are looking for an experienced and motivated Lead Youth Worker to join our thriving Youth Team in Penzance. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in youth work with good skills and abilities in leadership and safeguarding.

As Lead Youth Worker, you will:

• Take a key role in leading and delivering professional, creative, and engaging youth work sessions and activities for young people aged 11–17.
• Oversee session planning, delivery and evaluation, ensuring activities meet PZN Youth’s values and safeguarding standards.
• Take responsibility for safeguarding practice across sessions, adhering to PZN Youth safeguarding protocols and supporting staff to follow safe working procedures.
• Deliver staff induction and training, and help to develop sessional workers’ skills and confidence.
• Be responsible for writing incident, accident and safeguarding reports and completing end of session reports for each youth session
• Coordinate and oversee weekly food provision and menus for youth sessions, ensuring healthy, balanced options are provided.
• Help maintain a positive and inclusive team culture that celebrates young people’s voices and achievements.

Please send your CV and a cover letter telling us why you’re interested in this role and what you can bring to our team to bek