Youth Work Lead (Trusted Relationships)

Trusted Relationships
Youth Worker – Trusted Relationships 16 hours per week FTE £20,030 - £22,000
Fixed Term to: 31/03/2021

If you are looking for a meaningful job, a caring, progressive work environment and an opportunity to reach your fullest potential, consider a career with the YMCA.

We are seeking individuals who are inspired by playing an important role in changing people’s lives and therefore communities. We are all about creating inspirational pathways and opportunities, opening doors and welcoming all to get involved and make a positive difference. Working with us means helping children, youth, adults and seniors at all levels of ability, from all walks of life, to develop their self esteem and potential in new ways.

Objectives of the Trusted Relationships Project

Building on the extensive experience of delivering intensive youth support to vulnerable young people who irrespective of the nature of their exploitation share similar risk indicators and vulnerabilities, we will build on our existing provision to provide and extended service 3-10-pm Monday Friday and Saturdays which is flexible and responsive to need delivered through the development of the Trusted Relationships with a key worker.

Group work - an innovative area-based youth work response to prevent young people aged 10-14 becoming involved in exploitation in Bradford East through targeted youth work.

We are looking to appoint two dynamic individuals to join our Children and Young People’s team who will work as part of a wider Trusted Relationships partnership approach to preventing exploitation.

Keyworker – Trusted Relationships

• To provide intensive 1-1 support to children and young people between the ages of 10 – 14 identified as at risk of exploitation (CSE, Trafficking, Criminality, County Lines, Radicalisation etc.) who do not meet the threshold for statutory intervention and who, by the nature of their vulnerability are not responding to mainstream provision.

Youth Worker – Trusted Relationships

• To plan and deliver targeted group work sessions to meet the needs of children and young people between the ages of 10 – 14 identified as at risk of exploitation
To the successful candidate we offer:
• Flexible working environment
• Opportunities to apply for other internal roles
• An opportunity to work for a company who offer on-going development within your role
• The post holder must be aware of equal opportunity principles and comply with the
• YMCA’s equal opportunity procedures.
• Job Share will also be considered

For an application pack on the above role, please email bradfordrecruitment@fyldecoastymca.org

Closing date for the role(s) is 9am Friday 5th November 2018

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving, we are only able to contact candidates who are successful in progressing to the next stage. If you have not been contacted within 5 working days of the closing date, then please presume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

Job Information Pack

Application Form

Equal Opportunities Form

Closing date: 5th November 2018 9:00am
Hours: 16
Salary: £20,030 - £22,000
Salary Frequency: Per annum
This job is connected with: YMCA Bradford