Youth Worker - Manchester

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21 June 2022

You will be working with children and young people (10-18) who have been referred by the Youth Justice Service in Manchester. This will include one to one and group based work.

You will be providing support, encouragement and supervision to enable children and young people to engage in positive activities. This can take many forms - environmental projects, arts based projects, awareness raising campaigns, supporting local charity work etc as well as themed programmes of work including knife crime, victim awareness and domestic abuse awareness work.

Your primary role will be to provide all required support to enable children and young people to engage safely with these activities and to motivate them to engage and get as much out of the experience as possible.

You will also be enabled and indeed encouraged to develop your own ideas for community projects and activities for young people to complete.

So, if you want a job that can really make a significant difference to the lives of young people this could be the job for you.

Some examples of the projects some of our colleagues have delivered previously:

Supporting young people to create and develop an anti hate crime awareness campaign
Supporting young people to help local food banks
Supporting young people to organise fun events for children in need
Supporting young people with mental health awareness sessions and campaigns
Supporting young people with local community clean up campaigns

This is not an exhaustive list and we will work with you to develop new and exciting ideas.

You will be working 35 hours a week on a fully flexible basis to suit the availability of the children and young people and, as a result, can expect some weekend working.

We will provide full training for the role and we are looking for someone with passion, empathy and motivation rather than any particular past experience or qualification.