Senior Youth Worker (12 hrs) LBS-007

Job Description

Job Category: Social & Health Care Qualified
Location: 160 Tooley Street, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week: 12.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 15:00
End Time: 21:00
Salary: £16.21

The role will be for 12 hours a week working in the Kingswood Estate area in the south of Southwark, leading both outreach work on the estate currently on a Monday and Friday evening, and developing a new 3.15-5.45pm provision from the local library.

Job Purpose:
• To deliver and supervise high quality universal and targeted activities for children and young people within the borough youth centres and other setting as required, in order to enable the service to achieve the aims and goals of relevant corporate plans and strategies in relation to children and young people.
• To manage the day-to-day operation and development of youth centre facilities and youth workers, delivering  opportunities to children and young people.

Job Responsibilities:
• To take the lead in the front line delivery of youth work programmes and activities, working directly with children and young people to support their personal development and contributing to the achievement of relevant corporate targets for the service.
• To actively participate in the annual programme planning process to ensure a varied and interesting range of activities for young people
• To be responsible for promoting children and young people’s participation in all aspects of planning, monitoring and evaluating activity, including the Youth Parliament

• To promote and publicise a programme of positive activities available across the borough maximising the uptake of the facilities by undertaking outreach work, contacting other local providers and attending liaison meetings with appropriate partners/interested parties, including local tenants/residents groups, schools, parents and carers groups, Friends of groups and other community organisations.
• To work in partnership with other agencies such as schools voluntary sector partners and council departments
• To support and/or contribute to developing new youth projects and facilities, fund raising initiatives, including grant aid applications and other income generating opportunities.

• To line manage and provide supervision, guidance and support to up to three youth workers, following Southwark’s performance management process. This includes responsibility for individual performance appraisal, as well as the development of individual work plans.
• To ensure high standards within the service recordings systems (electronic and paper), and all requirements for collection, recording, maintaining of data and reports are adhered to in all youth work sessions
• To ensure the effective completion of administrative duties and facilities management as appropriate.

• To support the team leader on ensuring that day to day operational tasks related to youth facilities i.e. the service buildings, sites and installations (including IT) are good working order, safe, secure for both staff and visitors and compliant with relevant health and safety legislation.
• To ensure the service actively promotes council policies in relation to equal opportunities, confidentiality of information, data protection, business risk assessment and Health and Safety of staff and service users.
• To have due regard to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and to follow and implement the child protection procedures adopted by Southwark Safeguarding Children’s Board and the service.
• To participate in training and personal development activities which are appropriate to the role, to meet statutory and departmental requirements.