Area Youth Worker
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Job Summary
The Service & Team:
Area Youth Workers will be a part of a new team being formed to work on the Youth Transformation Pilot Project funded by the Department of Culture Media & Sport. There is one post covering the East one covering the Mid and one for the West all posts are available as a 12-month secondment or as a fixed term contract. The Youth Work Pilot is a part of our Early Help Support offer for Children Young people and their families
The Role
The Youth Transformation Pilot is a 12 month Pathfinder Project. This is an exciting time to look at our Youth Offer in Cornwall and how we can develop this more. As an Area Youth Worker you will be part of a transformation team developing the Youth Workforce and our Youth Offer
The post offers an exciting opportunity to work with a range of youth partners and young people in an area building the Youth Offer and offering collaborative working & training. Working with our Voluntary and Community partners the Area Youth Worker plays a crucial role in bringing together an Area Youth Forum so that young peoples voices are listened to and shared in places that also bringing together our youth work colleagues into a virtual hub that meets regularly and collaborates across the area and the sector. Through this we aim to develop some useful youth work and thematic training to look at the universal youth offers and to celebrate the successes. The Virtual Hub will be a useful place to bring and share information & opportunities with each other and to help support existing services for young people.
There will also be some evening work - visiting existing youth provisions possibly evening meetings and holding Youth Forum. The Area Youth Worker will also link with a pilot school in the area and may develop some themed group work aimed at some of our vulnerable young people and encourage some of these young people to be a part of the Youth Forum
Alongside of this we want young people to co-produce our Youth Pages on the Family Information site and to be part of the awarding of our grants to youth work providers
It is an ideal role for anyone wanting to develop their youth work skills in a different environment and thereis scope for flexibility and creative thinking.
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This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
Monday to Friday 37 hours a week and some evening work.
What youll need to succeed:
JNC Level 6 qualification or considerable experience of working with teenagers / young people in an informal education setting.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What youll get in return:
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
a competitive salary.
a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
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Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contactif you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Key Skills
- Crisis Management
- Direct Support
- Behavior Management
- Behavioral Health
- Mediation Experience
- Conflict Management
- Computer Literacy
- Child Protective Services
- Experience with Children
- Medication Administration
- Social Work
- Writing Skills
About Company
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunit ... View more
