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 motivated and inspiring senior youth support worker.

About the job

Location: Barnstaple Youth Centre

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 37 hours per week - Full Time

Positions available: 1

Salary: JNC: unqualified scale pt 9 - 10 (£25,664.00 - £26,341.00), qualified scale pt 10 - 13 (£26,341.00 - £29,606)

Deadline for application: 29.09.2024

Interview Date: 07.10.2024

Job Ref: DYS284

 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 the right candidate to work with young people in our Barnstaple and Bideford youth centres and local communities. This post requires either an experienced youth worker or someone looking to change careers and work with young people as part of the youth work team. Transferable skills will be considered. Our Youth Centres are busy and vibrant spaces.. The successful candidate will enjoy the challenge of leading sessions alongside providing young people with individual packages of support.

What is the role

• Leading youth work in a variety of settings

• Supporting the development of co workers and volunteers

• Codesigning and supporting the delivery of social action projects in the community

• Working with partners and stakeholders

• Planning, evaluating and evidencing of youth work

• Helping young people to develop skills and put their ideas into action

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

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

• 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