Llanberis Area - Gwynedd Council
Description
Job title:
Llanberis Area - Part Time Youth Project Workers x2
Directorate:
Education
Service:
Youth Service
Closing date:
22/06/2023 10:00
Job type/Hours:
Temporary | 31/03/2024 | 2 Hour
Salary:
See Job Advertisement
Pay Scale:
Location(s):
Llanberis
Location:
Llanberis Area
PAY SCALE:
JNC (POINTS 5-9) £ £11.30 PER HOUR
This post in is conjunction with Llanberis Community Council
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this (Information Pack)
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually.
The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
For further information about this post please contact Sion Bryn Roberts on /Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel:
CLOSING DATE:
10.00 AM, THURSDAY 22/06/2023
Personal attributes:
Essential:
Able to work well and create a solid relationship with young people
The ability to work as a member of a small team, working in the evenings and weekends
Able to work unsociable hours
Desirable:
Qualifications and relevant training:
Essential:
Desirable:
Level 3 qualification in Youth Work.
Level 1 Child Protection Course
Relevant experience:
Essential:
Experience of working with young people
Experience of providing projects / activities for young people
Desirable:
Skills and specialist knowledge:
Essential:
Effective face to face communication skills with young people
Fluent in both Welsh and English
Good organisational and administrative skills
Able to work with young people.
Strong commitment to the principles of Equal Opportunity and Child Protection
Desirable:
Knowledge of current developments in the youth work field
Language requirements:
Essential:
Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level:
Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Level:
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.
Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).
Writing - Intermediate Level:
Purpose of the post:
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- Leader in charge
Responsibility for functions:
- Will be responsible for the equipment used at the time
Main duties:
- Leader in Charge to present projects and activities for young people in their communities.
- Ensure that young people feel safe, receive support, are appreciated, learn how to take control over their lives and identify and oppose harmful influences that may impact them.
- Assist the Youth Worker to identify the interests and needs of young people in order to develop sessions and projects and organise events and activities.
- Assist the Youth Worker to offer a range of learning experiences for young people using informal youth work methods, within communities, that are suitable for young people
- Assist the Youth Worker to present courses that lead to accreditation (Agored Cymru, ASDAN Youth Challenge and Achievement Schemes, Children's University)
- Adhere to all the employer's relevant policies and other statutory requirements, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Child Protection.
- Input required information needed about young people in the information gathering system
- Ensure that the Young Person's voice is heard in everything that is offered and developed
- Attend staff meetings as required
- Attend training for youth workers organised by or on behalf of the Council
- Responsibility for selfdevelopment.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.
Special circumstances:
Employment:
JNC for Youth and Community Workers Points - 9
Annual Leave:
JNC Terms - 30 days annual leave for the first five years and 35 days for subsequent years (pro-rata).
Location:
Serving the Catchment Areas of
Llanberis
Workin
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