Youth Engagement Worker - Oldham, United Kingdom - Positive Steps

Positive Steps
Positive Steps
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Oldham, United Kingdom

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Title:
Youth Engagement Worker (Youth Voice)


Hours:
Part time - 3 days per week


Salary:
PS02 £22, £23,811.78 pro rata


Reporting:
Project Manager


Contract:
Fixed term until 31st March 2025

Do you enjoy working with young people, and making a difference?

Are you passionate about putting young people at the heart of service design?


We are looking for a confident and experienced person, who can use innovative methods to engage young people and support them to co-design services aimed at young people.

Gathering meaningful service feedback and ensuring that we are always meeting the needs of young people will be another key part of this role.


The Youth Engagement Worker will have a Youth Voice focus and will spend time connecting with young people and bringing them closer to our services, helping us to improve services and achieve better outcomes for those we aim to work with.

You would be expected to travel throughout Oldham and Rochdale and the role may include some home working.

Closing Date:
Friday 8th December 2023, midday


JOB PURPOSE

  • To provide support for young people to ensure that their voices are heard. Enabling young people to design, shape, and improve the services that affect them.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Planning and facilitating a range of activities, events and channels to give young people and their families the opportunity to codesign, experience, and evaluate our services
  • Provide activities and interventions for young people in line with relevant legislation, quality standards, best practice and codes of ethics to safeguard the service
  • Maintain relationships with other professionals to improve outcomes for young people
  • To undertake accurate and timely recording using appropriate databases and systems to meet contract requirements
  • Undertake any other duties in order to meet service and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager

Experience

  • Demonstrable experience of working with young people
  • Demonstrable experience of developing productive and effective relationships with young people
  • Demonstrable experience of partnership working
  • Demonstrable experience of communicating through verbal and written presentations
  • Demonstrable experience in promoting diversity

Knowledge

  • Awareness of Education and Guidance Services
  • Awareness of safeguarding legislation and guidance, implementation of Child Protection and vulnerable adult Procedures and the boundaries of professional relationships
  • Awareness of adolescent development
  • Understanding of Health & Safety legal requirements and best practice

Skills

  • Basic skills in engaging, supporting and motivating young people
  • Basic communication and presentational skills
  • Basic skills in creativity and original thinking with the ability to develop practical solutions to problems
  • Basic interpersonal and team working skills
  • Primary skills in literacy and numeracy
  • Basic skills in Microsoft Office and database systems

Personal attributes

  • Sound judgement and awareness of political sensitivities
  • Resilient and able to work independently as required
  • Sound professional and tactical judgement and the ability to establish priorities and principles
  • Commitment to Positive Steps vision and values

Additional requirements

  • Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of customers and the organisation
  • Able to travel throughout the region
  • Evening and weekend work required
  • Enhanced DBS required

Job Types:
Part-time, Fixed term contract


Salary:
£22,618.78-£23,811.78 per year

Expected hours: 21.6 per week


Benefits:


  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Flexitime
  • Free parking
  • Sick pay
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Flexitime
  • Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Oldham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

- working with young people: 1 year (required)


Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Oldham
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