Youth Worker - Belfast, United Kingdom - Volunteer Now

Volunteer Now

Verified Company

Belfast, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Summary of Main Responsibilities The youth worker will be responsible for supporting young people through Volunteer Now's youth work programmes, namely Heroes+, helping them to achieve the outcomes that are right for them and to achieve the range of programme targets.

The youth worker will promote a range of activities with young people and develop programmes of work with them to support them to realise their personal development goals.

The youth worker will deliver project outcomes and targets including those relating to budgetary, monitoring and reporting requirements.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The promotion of the project and recruitment of project participants
Direct support to young people both individually and in a group environment engaging and communicating with them in an open, friendly and business like way.

Carry out individual risk assessments and adopt a shared risk approach to working with young people with a diverse set of needs.

Facilitating individual personal development with young people by energising and stimulating their creative and innovative capacities and fostering a sense of direction.
Adopting a codesign approach to programme delivery with young people, project partners and key stakeholders.
Supervise and manage assistant youth workers and project volunteers.
Delivery of youthwork programmes and interventions based on youth work models to young people primarily within educational outreach settings.
Carry out baseline assessments of young people's strengths, life skills and experiences, attitudes towards good relations and diversity.
Report against project targets and outcomes using agreed processes and timeframes.
Work as part of a team to gather best practice stories and inform project development and evaluation.
Undertake activities that ensure Volunteer Now makes a significant contribution to the increase of youth volunteering and youth social action activity in Northern Ireland.
Promote and support youth volunteering and youth social action in particular delivery of a #iwill movement, and other youth work /recognition programmes.
Deliver youth work programmes (including residentials) that support young people to deliver youth social action/youth volunteering programmes that meet youth work policy and practice standards.
Support increased recognition and value for youth social action and volunteering.
Contribute to the effective use and development of Be Collective, Volunteer Now databases, website and other media forms.
To contribute to health and safety of staff and programme participants.