Senior Youth Support Worker - DYS Space Ltd

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 their local youth centre and in their local communities.

About the job

Location: Exeter

Employment type: Permanent

Hours of work: 18.5 hours per week

Positions available: 1

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

Deadline for application: Sunday 13th August 2023

Interview Date: Wednesday 23rd August 2023 - in the evening

Job Ref: DYS246

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

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

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

• Chromebook and work mobile

• Value-driven culture