Youth Work Trainer and Assessor - DYS Space Ltd

Do you want to help us develop youth workers by supporting their qualification pathways, training and learning?

Do you love a challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainer and Youth Work Assessor. This role is between 20 to 25 hours per week and the location will be at one of our eight Devon Youth Centres with some home working.

About the job

Location: Location will be at one of our eight Devon Youth Centres with some home working

Employment type: 2 Year Fixed Term Contract (with the possibility to extend)

Hours of work: 20-25 hours per week

Positions available: 1

Salary: £24,416 to £27,681 full time equivalent (JNC)

Deadline for application: Monday 28th August 2023

Interview Date: Wednesday 6th September 2023

Job Ref: DYS250

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Lisa on 07590639440 or Steff on 07764326414.

What is the role

• Delivery of youth work learning sessions for the Level 2 and Level 3 Youth Work Qualifications

• Assessing learners on their qualification pathways

• Coordination of our Level 2 and Level 3 policy, practice and procedures

• Delivering SPACE training packages

• Support managers with the learning and development on the SPACE Step In programme

• Work with the Youth Work training team to develop a business for plan for delivering the Youth Work qualifications to external organisations

• Plan and evaluate work for the purpose of learning and improving practice

• Training resources management 

About You:  

• Communicating with people – including people you don’t know

• Working well together – committed to team working

• Creative and skilful - contributing your ideas

• Organised and thoughtful - facilitating/ planning/ evaluating

• Interested in the issues faced by young people

• Committed to anti oppressive practice

• Committed to learning and development

 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

How to Apply