Senior Youth Outreach and Engagement Worker
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Senior Youth Outreach and Engagement Worker
Streets of Growth is seeking to employ an
experienced, motivated, and personable individual to work as part of
the frontline team to deliver targeted street work to engage and build
relationships of trust with high-risk vulnerable young people (15-25
years), in hotspot areas known for Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB),
exploitation, serious youth violence and young people that are
furthest away from engaging in services.
You should expect
to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and a higher
starting salary band is dependent on you having extensive experience
and skills in street work and detached outreach work as well as
relevant frontline experience of working with at-risk young
people.
These working hours will vary and will be worked
according to business needs and notified to you in advance. You will
be required to work late afternoons, evenings, and weekends as part of
your normal working week
Benefits Summary:
- 25 annual leave days plus bank holidays per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Pension scheme of up to 8% contribution
- Excellent training in Streets of Growth evidence-based change model inclusive of CBT skills training (CPD)
- Excellent on-going supervision, performance coaching and professional development coaching.
- An individualised annual training budget of up to £250 for external training in relation to professional career development e.g., psychological methods of practice.
- An enhanced Employee Assistance Scheme which provides free, 24/7 confidential helpline services including structured counselling services and practical resources aimed at supporting your work-life balance.
- Structured Professional pathways through the organisation inclusive of supported development into senior and advanced practitioner roles and further progression into management positions. .
The role
:
Taking on a lead role to deliver targeted street
work and outreach across the borough of Tower Hamlets. This involves
engaging and building relationships of trust with young people at
street level and in identified hotspot areas of risk where there is
low to high anti-social behaviour, criminality and violence. Working
with and engaging young people in strategic interventions across
Lifestyle, Enterprise/Employability, Education and Environment that
constructively challenge negative patterns of behaviour, create an
experience for positive thinking, confidence building, entrepreneurial
work skills, and tapping into the young person’s ambition, potential
and talent.
You will have senior responsibility with the
Frontline Director to plan and execute street work and outreach
delivery in identified hotspot areas or risk based on street/community
and partner intelligence. As well as holding a small street-engaged
caseload of young people and providing a lead responsibility to
deliver appropriate targeted intervention work during critical
incidents in the community.
Who we are looking for:
Along with a relevant professional qualification at
level 3 or degree level, you will have significant frontline
experience working with young people, including experience in detached
outreach work with young people and experience working with at-risk,
vulnerable young people. You will also have good knowledge of
safeguarding risk assessment and contextual safeguarding in addition
to good practice in engaging young people.
Streets of Growth is
committed to diversity in all that it does and strongly encourages
applications from every part of the communities we serve. All
appointments are made on merit. At Streets of Growth, we would like to
encourage applications from people both with and without criminal
convictions, however, the job offer has to be subject to vetting. The
successful candidate will be required to apply for an enhanced
criminal record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service
(DBS). Due to the nature of the work, you are applying for you are
required to disclose any criminal convictions that you
have.
No agencies, please.
You may have experience
in the following: Senior Youth Engagement Specialist, Senior Youth
Outreach Coordinator, Senior Youth Development Officer, Senior Youth
Program Facilitator, Senior Community Youth Advocate, Senior
Adolescent Outreach Worker, Senior Youth Empowerment Coordinator,
Senior Teen Outreach Worker, Senior Youth Mentorship Coordinator,
Senior Youth Support Worker.
Who we are:
Streets of Growth is an outcome-driven charity,
working to reduce harm and positively transform the lives of the most
vulnerable and at-risk young people in East London. We do not wait for
young people to walk through our doors, or to be referred by an
agency, instead, we engage and reach out to young people across the
streets and neighbourhoods. Working to build a relationship of trust,
truth, and transformation with each young person, coaching and
enabling them to support themselves to change negative lifestyles,
move away from violence and harm, stay out of prison, get good jobs,
and create a better future for themselves.
Location
: Hayloft Point, 6 Middlesex Street, London E1
7EX
Contract: Permanent, Part
time
Salary: £30,000 to £32,000 (pro rata for 21
hours)
Hours: 21 hours (within the hours of 2 pm
– 10 pm)
Closing date :
12-05-2024
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