We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Tower Hamlets to assist with the appointment of an Senior Youth Worker, on a 3-month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £24.06 - £31 per hour

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, develop and deliver projects across the borough as directed, ensuring that they are effectively set up, maintained, and operated to provide, using a variety of methods centre based, universal and targeted youth activities and programmes, that enable the formal and informal learning and personal and social development of children and young people aged 11 + and up to 25 with SEND
• Responsible for ensuring through early planning that a varied offer of fun youth activities and programmes are consistently available for the cohort including, but not limited to, accredited programmes, one-to-one work, group work, volunteering.
  
• Directly line manage staff allocated to the designated projects ensuring that, using the Council's performance development and review scheme, they are regularly supervised, subject to performance monitoring, and that appropriate development and training opportunities are identified for them and addressed.
  
• Responsible to undertake and develop partnership work with key (internal & external) stakeholder organisations and partners i.e., VCS groups, schools, CFCs, Parks for the development of the project and its users.
  
• Responsible for meeting all apportioned performance targets including those relating inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact; updating data onto the service MIS database and preparing various reports as and when required to verify and evidence delivery and the quality of work being undertaken.
  
• To undertake any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade as determined by the manager and work flexibly as and when required to deliver youth activities and programmes from different designated youth and partner buildings (if required), and during the evenings, weekends, term time and the holiday seasons.

Qualifications:

• Youll need a minimum of a Level 3 NVQ JNC recognised Youth Support Worker qualification or something similar (Sports, Teaching, Youth Justice)

• In addition, candidates with experience and qualifications in delivery of physical and adventurous activities e.g. Indoor rock climbing, canoeing, cycling/ BMX, skating are encouraged to apply.
• Applications from candidates currently undertaking a formal qualification to work with young people.
• Applicants currently in Full Time/Part Time education will be considered for part time roles.
• Applications from candidates with a min of 2 years experience of working with young people

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires an enhanced DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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