Senior Youth Support Worker in Charge - DYS Space Ltd

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

Do you love a challenge?

This is an amazing opportunity for a skilled youth worker to continue the ongoing success of our Youth Work delivery at 100 Club Youth Centre in Exeter and the team's Street Based Youth Work across the City. The 100 club is a busy, dynamic environment. The new post holder must be creative, motivating, organised and determined.

About the job

Location: Exeter Youth Centre, 100 Club

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 37 hours per week

Positions available: 1

Salary: JNC: unqualified scale pt 12 - 13, qualified scale pt 14 - 17 (£26,576 - £31,216 FTE)

Deadline for application: Sunday 20th August 2023

Interview Date: Thursday 31st August 2023 - in the afternoon

Job Ref: DYS249

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ben Goodman on 07764326435 or Steff Holwill on 07764326414.

What is the role

• Leading youth work in a variety of settings

• Supporting the development of co workers

• Designing and delivering creative curriculum content and programmes

• Working with partners and stakeholders

• Planning, evaluating and evidencing of youth work

About You:  

• Experienced youth worker or confident that you have the transferable skills required for the demands of the post

• Leadership and confidence

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

• Creativity and solution focused thinking

• Respectful with excellent empathy and kindness

• Ability to multitask, set priorities and reachout when you need help and support

• High commitment to continuous professional practice

• A reflective practitioner

• 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

 Space is continually striving to be an inclusive organisation. Equality, diversity and inclusion are threads that run through all our work, and should run through all our relationships with colleagues, partners and all those we work with.  We go beyond the approach described by the Equality Act 2010 and choose to take an anti-oppressive approach to our work and how we behave as an organisation.

We encourage applications for this role from all backgrounds in respect of ethnicity, age, disability, gender, sexuality, religion and socio-economic background.

What We Offer 

• Annual leave: 6 weeks for the first 5 years then 7 weeks after 5 years (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

• Casual dress code

• Social occasions

• Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

• Enhanced sick pay

• Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat

• Chromebook and work mobile

• Value-driven culture

• Free on-site parking

How to Apply