Redbridge Council
Location
Ilford, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Station Road Centre, Redbridge Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 10:00
End Time : 18:00
Salary: £19.22
*** Job Hours: Full Time (36 hours – including 2 or 3 evenings a week up to 8pm) ***
*** Salary: £19.22 per hour PAYE ***
*** Location: Locations across the Borough ***
PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS NOT SOCIAL CARE OR FOR A SOCIAL WORKER – THIS IS FOR A YOUTH WORKER AND EXPERIENCE OF YOUTH WORK IS ESSENTIAL
The London Borough of Redbridge is a fantastic and busy place to work. The Redbridge Youth Service is committed to encouraging, empowering, and challenging young people to achieve their potential through a range of positive activities and enjoyable learning opportunities.
The Youth Service is made up of a number of teams, working with both targeted and generic groups of young people, individuals and families.
The Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Youth Involvement Worker for the Youth Service to plan, coordinate and facilitate regular face to face sessions with young people, including working evenings, some weekends and during school holidays.
You will:
⦁ Have experience of working with young people in participation and involvement projects with generic youth work skills.
⦁ Need to have experience of working with young people aged 11 – 19 and up to 25 with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
⦁ Develop and lead Youth Involvement projects and to promote youth voice within the service, across the local authority and the wider community.
⦁ Coordinate the activities of the Redbridge Youth Council (RYC). Promoting RYC to both young people and colleagues, recruiting young people, ensuring they are actively involved in the project and related activities, running and managing meetings and events.
⦁ Proactively support young people to fully participate in consultations, coproduction and decision-making processes across the Borough, regionally and nationally.
⦁ Initiate and deliver projects and activities during term and school holiday periods.
⦁ Work with young people across the Borough, Youth Work staff and the LBR Communications Team to develop the Youth Service Social Media and other platforms to ensure young people and parents are aware of the Youth Service and other organisations’ positive activities.
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