Youth Support Worker x 2 - Communities Team - 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 a Community Youth Worker to join our Community Support team.

About the job

Location: Ottery St Mary

Employment type: 12 months Fixed Term with the possibility of extension

Hours of work: 1 x 8 hours p/w (Monday and Thursday evenings), 1 x 4 hrs p/w (Thursday evenings)

Positions available: 2

Salary: JNC: scale pt 5 - 6 (unqualified) £4,664.00 - £4,735.00 scale pt 7 - 10 (qualified) £4,797.00 - £5281.00

Deadline for application: Sunday 10th September 2023

Interview Date: Thursday 21st September 2023 - in the evening

Job Ref: DYS244

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Katie Hales on 07764326429

What is the role

• Supporting the delivery of youth work in Ottery St Mary’s youth centre in line with Space’s high quality standards

• Helping to prepare and plan exciting and engaging activities for young people to realise their potential

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 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

• 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