Do you love a challenge?

DYS Space Ltd has an exciting opportunity for a Youth Support Worker to work at our youth centre in Barnstaple.

About the job

Location: Bideford, Barnstaple, Okehampton, Exeter,  Exmouth, Newton Abbot, Tiverton and Totnes

Employment type: Permanent.

Hours of work: 10.5 hours per week (3 evenings) at each centre

Positions available: 1

Salary: JNC: unqualified scale pt 5 - 6, qualified scale pt 7 - 10 (£23,496.00 - £26,341.00 - FTE)

Deadline for application: Sunday 16th June 2024

Interview Date: Wednesday 26th June 2024 - (from 13:00 hours to 17:00 hours)

Job Ref: DYS274

SPACE  is an ambitious and innovative charity, driven by our values and seeking to support even more young people by developing current and new services. Our employees strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others. We value everyone's contribution and create safe spaces for exploration and growth.

Do you want to help us unlock potential with young people and their communities?  Do you love a challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Youth Support Worker to work as part of our online delivery of digital youth services. We are looking for someone who is able to work in an online environment and willing to learn the skills to deliver youth work in the online world. The work will be part-time, permanent, 10.5 hours per week, and will include working 3 evenings per week from a SPACE youth centre and occasional weekends. There will be an expectation to be able to deliver face to face youth work in open-access sessions as well. Come and join a team of youth workers delivering high-quality youth work. Learn new skills - training and support will be provided.

Recruiting for attitude and seeking candidates with a passion to work with young people and help them to unlock their potential. The role is fun, challenging and rewarding.

What is the role

• Supporting youth work in a variety of settings; predominantly online, with centre and street based settings appropriate

• Being collaborative and a team player 

• Supporting the design  and delivery of the youth work curriculum and programmes

• Planning, evaluating and evidencing youth work

About You:  

• Passion for supporting and advocating for the rights of young people

• Creativity and solution-focused thinking

• Willingness to work in an online environment

• Respectful with excellent empathy and kindness

• Ability to be adaptable and reach out when you need help and support

• High commitment to continuous professional practice

• Prepared to reflect and learn from experiences

• Space is an inclusive and learning organisation. Our employees should strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others.

As part of our ambitions to improve equality and diversity, we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under any of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

What We Offer 

• Annual leave: 6 weeks for the first 5 years then increased to 7 weeks (pro-rata’d for part-time roles)

• Additional 3 Statutory days given between Christmas and new year plus bank holidays

• Pension contributions starting at 6% rising to 8% in the third year

• Employee assistance programme 24/7

• Free on-site parking (on some sites)

• Casual dress code 

• Social occasions

• Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

• Enhanced sick pay

• Value-driven culture

• Please read the job description and apply by completing our application form, describing your passion for this role even if you don’t feel you meet every point in the description

• If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Simon Roberts on 07590639378 or for more information please visit www.spaceyouthservices.org

• To apply for this post please download and complete the attached application form and return this either via email as an MS Word document to recruitment@spacepsm.org or posting to DYS Space Ltd, 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 7EH

Deadline for applications: Sunday 16th June 2024 . The interview will be held at Space 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7EH on Wednesday 26th June 2024 in the evening.