Youth Support Worker - DYS Space (DYS223)

18
Feb
Close date :
5 March 2023
Salary :
See below
Location :
Exeter
Website :
https://www.spaceyouthservices.org/vacancies/vacancy-dys223-ymjbp-atrjf-7s5a6-pa...
Description :

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 at our youth centre in Exeter.

About the job

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 7 hours per (2 evenings per week)

Salary: JNC: unqualified scale pt 5 - 6, qualified scale pt 7 - 10 (£21,571.00 - £24,416.00 - FTE)

Deadline for application: Sunday 5th March 2023

Interview Date: Tuesday 15th March 2023- in the evening

Job Ref: DYS223

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ben Goodman on 07764326435

What is the role

  • Supporting youth work in a variety of settings

  • Being collaborative and a team player

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

  • Planning, evaluating and evidencing of youth work

About You:  

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

  • Creativity and solution focused thinking

  • Respectful with excellent empathy and kindness

  • Ability to be adaptable and reachout 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

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

  • Free on-site parking

  • Casual dress code

  • Social occasions

  • Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

  • Enhanced sick pay

  • Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat

  • Value-driven culture

 How to Apply
 

  • Download and complete the supporting statement below.

  • Return your completed supporting statement, along with your CV to recruitment@spacepsm.org Or post to: 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 7EH

  • Interviews may be conducted by phone / video / online - method to be advised and dependent on the individual and Covid restrictions in force at interview date - details will be given at offer of interview

  • Unless specified when sending through your completed application, we do not normally acknowledge receipt of applications