Weekend Youth Worker - Manchester, United Kingdom - Manchester Youth Zone

Manchester Youth Zone

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're recruiting youth workers who can deliver on a range of activities for our weekend provision.

We are looking for youth workers who can work:

Saturdays 11am-4pm - Family work session Sundays 11.30am-4pm - Inclusion (SEN) session

The successful applicants will have strong communication and youth work skills and able to run activities with young people and families from a range of different backgrounds.

Desired skillsets include:

Music & Media
Sports
Arts
General youth work

Key Duties

To work directly with children and young people in and out of the centre to facilitate safe, fun and developmental activities.
To work in collaboration with both the youth and play teams, sharing your skill set across all areas of the Youth Zone.
To develop your own collection of highquality session and activity plans, so that you are able to deliver a suite of activities.
To support on the planning and delivery of special events and trips
Encourage the participation of children and young people and that their ideas contribute fully to the planning, delivery and evaluation of sessions, projects, and activities.
To establish positive and engaging relationships with children and young people from a range of backgrounds and provide interventions that achieve outcomes including helping them develop friendships, try new things, personal development and growth into adolescence, improved selfesteem, positive selfidentity, trying and learning new things through failure and success, and developing wider networks of family and agency support where required.
To be able to use your own initiative to flexibly meet the needs of children and young people, adapting sessions where required to ensure inclusion