Detached Youth Worker

Job description

Starting Salary: £37,462 (including London Weighting)
Job Grade: YCW 18-21
Hours per week: 36, Full-time
Location: Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt St, Kings Cross, London, NW1 1BD
Contract Type: Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months 
Closing date: Thursday 2nd May 2024 at 23:59
Interview date: Week commencing 13th May 2024

About Camden

Camden is listening to everyone, including you. We’re giving a platform to people inside and outside our community. Because we’re not just home to the UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. As a Detached Youth Worker, you’ll deliver a wide-ranging programme of personal and social education to young people in Camden and make a real difference to their lives.

We’re ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help us redefine how we support young people, and we’ll redefine what a career can be. If that sounds good to you, we’d love to talk.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

The Detached Youth Worker role within the Detached Youth Team is a dynamic role which forms part of the Reducing Youth Violence and Exploitation Service, part of the Integrated Youth Support Service. The Detached Team is a mobile street-based team of youth workers that engages with young people in a community setting i.e. local estates, parks and community spaces. Our aim is to reach young people who do not access mainstream youth provisions and we specialise in working with young people who are marginalised and hard to reach. This role requires flexibility in order to meet fixed deadlines and competing priorities.

This role involves working unsocial hours, including evenings and weekends. This is a physically demanding role and will involve significant periods of walking considerable distances as well as working outdoors during varied weather conditions. The operations of the team range across a number of functions beyond street-based delivery. The team also delivers workshops in schools to both primary and secondary pupils. 

The public engagement element this role involves regularly coming into contact with people, some of whom may at times be challenging from time to time

The post holder will be required to take responsibility for the compliance with Health and Safety legislation in accordance with the Council and departmental safety arrangements, policies, and codes.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.

To view the Job Profile, please click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your browser: http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10476528/file/document?inline

All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity it is essential he successful candidate has an NVQ/VRQ Level 3 in Youth Work (JNC recognised) or above as well as 2 years post-qualification experience.

As a Detached Youth Worker, you will be an individual who is experienced, committed and confident in implementing a Youth Work process approach to actively engage young people in a community setting. You will be an excellent communicator who has the ability to engage and work innovatively with new young people and engaging them and their families and other professionals in order to assess, develop and deliver interventions and activities. 

You’ll be a committed and passionate professional who can work with young people to offer a holistic support services that develop their personal and social skills and participation in society. It is essential to have a good understanding of child development, with experience of using child protection and safeguarding procedures as required. 

To be considered for this vacancy it is essential the successful candidate has experience of delivering accredited and non-accredited programmes and is effective in the development and delivery of workshops.

As a requirement for this role, you must be willing to work unsocial hours, which includes mornings as part of our schools offer.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme. 

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity 

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity 

Asking for Adjustments 

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at [email protected] or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG,

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.