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Youth Worker Bradford West (JNC 16-19) Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England

Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Full Time Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England 30416 - 32820 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Department of Place

Neighbourhood & Customer Services

Youth Service

Youth Worker JNC 16-19

£30,416 - £32,820 pa

4 x 37 hrs per week

(3 x permanent role)

(1 x temporary for 2 years / secondment opportunity for Bradford Council employees only)

Based at Bradford West and District Wide

The service is looking to appoint 2 Professional Youth Support Workers who can design, develop and deliver high quality, inclusive youth provision for young people within their local areas.

The role will focus Supporting young people aged 11–19 (up to 25 for young people with additional needs) enabling young people to identify and respond to their needs and interests and encourage youth voice across the district.

Postholders will be responsible for workplace supervision of staff, students and volunteers and be able to maintain and provide management information as required by the Service.

A particular emphasis of the work will be to work with vulnerable young people providing high quality support to enable young people to make decisions to further their personal development. Postholders will take lead responsibility and provide support to a caseload of vulnerable young people.

To be ready for this opportunity you need to possess:

It is a requirement of the post that applicants are JNC qualified as youth and community workers
Ability to use and apply knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures and regulations including risks in Youth Work
Ability to use a range of basic IT packages
Ability to adopt a process of continual improvement and suggest ways of working more efficiently and effectively to improve service delivery.
Knows and understands how to use, interpret, handle and communicate information
Demonstrate knowledge of working with the issues affecting young people which are important and impact on the lives of young people, Including specifically ASB and the impact this has on young people’s future
Demonstrate knowledge and ability to work with young people who have engaged in ASB
Identify what are the most important skills when building relationships with young people
Demonstrate the ability to apply an understanding of equality of opportunity and voluntary participation in a youth work situation.
To deliver the skills to enable young people to work effectively in groups
To work as part of a team to deliver responsive, needs led youth work interventions, at unsociable hours (including day, night and weekends)
Knowledge of working with vulnerable young people and to be effective in empowering young people to achieve their planned outcomes.
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.

The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert, outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate. Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.

For further information, please contact either Chy Burnett, Advanced Youth Work Practitioner on [email protected] or Calais Lawrence, Advanced Youth Work Practitioner on [email protected]

Closing date: 12th June 2023

Please find the Job Profile attached: Youth Worker Job Profile.doc

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