Youth Participation Worker

Are you passionate about young people?  Do you believe young people should have support to develop their personal, social and educational development? Do you believe young people should have a say in the services they receive?

If the answer is yes, an exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to work within NGAGE with Aquarius service. The role is for a Youth Participation Worker to sit alongside and support the voice of young people within the NGAGE with Aquarius young people’s team ensuring we work in a coproduction manner to meet the needs of our service users.

The post holder will be required to work closely with all of our partner agencies including Schools and education providers, youth providers across the county. The post holder will also provide wrap around support, training and education, connection, mentoring and purposeful positive activities for our young people. The successful applicant will have a passion for engaging young people in the following:

• Working together with our young people to hear and share their voices about service delivery.
• With the Team Leader, & Service Manager develop and implement a service user involvement strategy, including establishing and supporting a service user board
• Provide a safe “open access closed group” session, where young people can meet and participate in youth led positive activities, volunteering and training.
• Provide accredited and informal training programmes to young people to enhance their personal, social and learning development.
• Providing the ability for young people to become a peer mentor, leading on groups and helping new members to bed in and find their voice
• Support young people to formally volunteer with the service
• The post holder will be required to build links with all of the young people who are referred to NGAGE young people’s team. They will also provide direct mentoring to those young people who use substances and need extra support and intervention.

Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation.

This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post holder to work 37 hours per week.

This is a rolling recruitment process; shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.

When applying, please upload a CV and supporting statement which should clearly outline your skills and experience.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or anyone from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic group.

Aquarius was a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship, with both organisations being part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. On 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship merged with Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. At the same time, Aquarius became a subsidiary of Humankind, with no impact to terms and conditions of employment. In October 2024, Humankind will be renamed to reflect the new organisation, of which Aquarius will remain a subsidiary.