Youth & Community Worker

Are you passionate about supporting young people? Community Youth Services want you!

Community Youth Serivces is made up of a number of youth engagement services that seek to support young people where they are at. We are community based enabling youth provisions to be directly delivered in communities. Youth Voice is at our core ensuring we deliver services to young people that are relevant to their needs.

To deliver high energy, creative, ambitious youth work, using community infratstrucutres promoting contexual safety, providing a full program of youth work opportunities and informal learning using Open access, outreach and detached methods, targeted group work and referrals to wider services. To lead on service development, supervise and recruit part time youth workers.

Do you have significant experince in managing youth and community work? Are you able to work with a range of partners and to advocate and represent young people and youth and community work to affect change.

If its a yes then, its a great time to join Community Youth Services and we welcome your application.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.