Youth Worker

Portsmouth City Council; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a dedicated Youth Worker to engage with young people aged 11–25 in our youth club setting. You will help plan and run activities, build trusting relationships, listen to needs, and signpost to other services as required.

You will work across all areas of the club, including evenings and weekends, and with volunteers and staff to deliver sport, art, music, drama, and other group activities in a supportive, anti-discriminatory way.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people aged 11–25.
• Ability to engage comfortably with service users and stakeholders.
• Commitment to listening and signposting to other services when needed.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and running activities in the youth club.
• Build and maintain relationships with young people through active listening and participation.
• Work across all areas of the club, including evenings and weekends.
• Collaborate with volunteers and staff to deliver sport, art, music, drama and other activities.

Skills

Relationship building

Communication skills

Engagement with youth

Team player

Flexibility

Anti-discrimination

Listening skills

Job description

Working with young people aged between 11yrs -19 years, in a youth club setting. You will encourage young people’s participation in their club and in planning and running activities with them. Building relationships with these young people, by being a good listener, listening to what the young people want from the activities as well as listening to their issues and sign posting them on to other services as and when required. You will be expected to support the work under the direction of the Youth Club Manager. Your duties could include, sport, dance, participation in art, music, drama, discussions, and cooking with young people to name but a few, also off-site activities to include day trips and residentials.

This successful candidate for this post will be expected to work across all areas of the youth club including the learning needs provision.

Skills:

You need to:

• Be enthusiastic and be able to make and maintain effective relationships with young people.
• Have experience of working with young people from age 11-25 years, be enthusiastic and able to make and maintain effective relationships.
• Have excellent communication skills and be able to engage effectively with young people, staff, and stakeholders in a restorative way.
• The ability to converse at ease with service users.
• Be friendly and approachable with a sense of humour and lots of patience.
• Be able to work within a team, as there will be lots of interaction with volunteers and other staffs as this is very much a hands on job.
• An understanding of anti-discriminatory practice is essential and the empowerment of young people is essential.
• Be open-minded, but recognise and challenge inappropriateness in a young person’s behaviour or language.
• Be flexible in your hours of work as you will need availability to work in the evenings and occasional weekends as well as working from different sites.