Youth Worker

Are you looking for a new opportunity?

Do you have a passion for engaging with children and young people?

Are you able to develop supportive relationships with young people within a groupwork setting, whilst introducing them to new experiences, working to increase their confidence, and ambition and to help them realise their own potential?

Our partnership with the Co-op is an exciting, innovative project where we are aiming to support young people aged 10-25 years to build positive futures.

Our Barnardo's Co-op Partnership goals are:

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

We are recruiting a dynamic ‘As and When' Project Worker, who can support us to deliver our service in Plymouth – Plymouth Change Makers.

Plymouth Change Makers has been designed by young people, for young people.

The role is flexible with opportunities to support the team in running groupwork sessions designed to support and improve young people's mental wellbeing, fun cookery sessions using surplus, redistributed foods and support to run events that young people can access to develop skills and confidence.

Groupwork sessions may be running during evenings, weekends and during half terms.

We are looking for applicants who are:

• Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years.
• Inclusive, kind and non-judgemental in their approach to engaging with 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.

For Fostering & Adoption services, we have the use of transcription tool Beam Notes