Youth Worker

Location: Tower Hamlets

Youth Worker

Location:

Tower Hamlets

Hours:

35 hours per week
Starting Salary: £33,500 (Top Salary Band for this role: £35,000)

Job title:

Young Person Intervention Coach:
Targeted Intervention Casework and Street Work.

Contract:

Permanent, subject to funding

Do you have the values, personal qualities, and experience to support high risk young people who are hard to engage and those involved in harm and affected by exploitation and violence?

Do you have the tenacity, resilience, determination and consistency to identify, disrupt, challenge, and support young people to move out of harm and prevent further involvement in harmful activities. Are you committed to social justice, equity and inclusion?

Do you want to be part of a growing and developing Charity that is ambitious for the young communities that we serve? If yes, then you could be joining our innovative, specialist Intervention Team

Benefits

Summary:

Working in a values-led, award-winning charity with local, national, and international connections.
25 annual leave days plus bank holidays per year
A fair and benchmarked salary with consistent salary reviews and structured career progression pathway with opportunities for senior roles.
A generous Pension Scheme
A supportive working culture with Employee Assistance Scheme available 24/7.
Comprehensive, ongoing training and professional development across fields of targeted intervention, harm reduction, youth development.
A Referral Bonus Scheme of up to £150
An Individual training budget (up to £200 pa) for external professional development training once completed first 12 months of employment
Excellent professional supervision with monthly and quarterly reflective practice sessions.
Great location near tubes, Spitalfields, Brick Lane, and direct access to Central London.
DBS Requirement:
Enhanced DBS

Who we are:

Streets of Growth is an award-winning, value-led, outcome-driven charity, working to reduce harm and positively transform the lives of the most vulnerable and at-risk young people in Tower Hamlets East London. We do not wait for young people to walk through our doors, instead we are relentless in reaching out to at risk hard to reach young people across the streets and neighbourhoods.

Working to build a relationship of trust, truth, and transformation with each young person, coaching and enabling them to support themselves to change negative lifestyles, move away from violence and harm, stay out of prison, get good jobs, and create a better future for themselves.

The role:

As a Young Person Intervention Coach (YIC), you will be responsible for the assessment and implementation of tailored intervention coaching plans for each young person on your caseload. You will work to achieve progression outcomes for each young person that includes reducing mental, physical, and emotional harm and supporting each young person transition to positive, thriving lifestyle both on a one-to-one basis, and in partnership with other individuals and agencies involved in the lives of each young person.

Your purpose is to identify, disrupt, challenge, and support young people to move out of harm and prevent further involvement in harmful activities. This will involve targeted street work, specialised one to one harm reduction and life skills coaching. You will receive specialist training in Streets of Growth emotional regulation skills programming which will underpin your Life-Skills Coaching with each young person.

Who we are looking for:
You will have robust frontline experience of working with young people, including experience in engaging, assessing, and delivering interventions designed to support young people to build personal resilience and move away from harm and violence. You will also possess sound risk assessment skills and safeguarding knowledge. A key component of the job role is case management and knowledge of good practice models in harm reduction which underpin Streets of Growth practice, is essential.

To apply:

Please submit an up-to-date CV and covering letter of no more than 2 A4 sides which explains how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification.

Closing date for applications: 11:59pm on Sunday…