Youth Support Worker

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified

Location : London Borough of Havering

Hours Per Week :12.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 16:30

End Time : 21:30

Salary: £16.25

Are you passionate and committed to working with children and young people? Do you have experience of supporting children and adolescents with some complexities in their lives in order for them to be their best selves, and to accompany them on their journey into adulthood? Are you dedicated to ensuring that young people get the opportunity to participate fully in the co-design and delivery of services so that their voices can be heard? Then we have a very exciting role for you!

Now is the time to join our busy and vibrant youth service team to create learning opportunities with young people and to support them to navigate some of the complexities in their lives. We are seeking to recruit sessional youth support workers to assist with the delivery of youth work provision within Havering. We are looking to resource the following provision in particular: detached or “street-based” sessions, gender-based group work sessions and LGBTQ+ group work sessions.

If you have experience of supporting vulnerable children and young people from a variety of backgrounds and with complex needs through group work and 1:1 interventions, as well as a knowledge of how to engage young people as individuals as well as within their peer networks and contexts, and an understanding of contextual safeguarding concerns such as exploitation, substance misuse, difficulties in education and missing episodes, we want to hear from you!

Please note: applicants must have availability for evening sessional work, with sessions starting anytime from 4.30pm and finishing by 9.30pm. These roles are initially for 12 hours a week with opportunity for more hours depending on service demand.