Youth & Community Worker Sheffield, England
Job description
Are you passionate about supporting young people – Community Youth Services needs you!
Community Youth Services is made up of a number of youth engagement services that seek to support young people where they are at. We are community based enabling youth provisions to be directly delivered in communities. Youth voice is at our core ensuring we deliver services to young people that are relevant to their needs.
Sheffield is committed to providing an outstanding offer outside formal education providing consistent professional guidance, advice and support to enable our young residents to thrive.
The team deliver well connected, ambitious, creative and high energy youth work to young Sheffielders. We utilise a variety of engagement methods to affect change and add social value to the personal and social growth and development of young Sheffielders. Making use of social community infrastructure to serve in the best interest of young people, promoting contextual safety and alertness and to ensure active promotion of these spaces and establish trusted adults.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
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