Do you love a challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a social action youth worker. Supporting young people to create projects and volunteer in local youth centres and communities.

About the job

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 20 - 25 hours per week (negotiable) minimum of 2 evenings a week and one Saturday per month

Positions available: 1

Salary: £23,739.00 - £27,681.00 FTE (JNC: unqualified scale pt 9 - 10, qualified scale pt 10 - 13)

Deadline for application: Sunday 5th March 2023

Interview Date: Wednesday 15th March 2023

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Emily on 07764326406

What is the role

• Work with our South Devon teams to deliver high quality youth work in centres 

• Work with our Social Action team to design and deliver centre and community based young volunteering, including fundraising initiatives 

• Ensure that all work has robust evaluation, demonstrating the outcomes and impact of interventions

• Recognise, reward and celebrate young people's achievements, learning and successes. From the smallest first step, to reaching their goals and having the self belief to expand their aspirations

• Work with the community, professionals and practitioners, demonstrating respect and understanding of differing agendas, disciplines, specialisms and roles

•  Work at times that are conducive to the time tables and programmes - including daytimes, evenings and weekends where required

• Support and partner with young and adult volunteers

About You:  

• You are creative, engaging and able to build positive relationships with young people

• You enable young people to put their ideas into action

• You are solution focused with a ‘can do’ attitude

• You have the ability to forge productive working relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders

• You are empathetic and caring

• You are self motivating, reliable and organised

• You actively seek to eliminate oppression, discrimination and advance equality

• You have your own transport and are happy to work in a variety of locations and settings

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

• Dress code: Casual

• Flexible schedule

• 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

• 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