Youth Worker

We’re looking for a freelance youth worker to lead our weekly educational youth club programme in Bournemouth. Delivered in partnership with International Care Network (ICN), sessions take place on a weekly basis between 4.30pm-7.30pm throughout the year including school holidays.

The youth worker is responsible for planning, delivering and facilitating educational and cultural Club Class activities for separated children aged 16-21 years old. The youth worker is supported during the session by our youth support worker plus one support worker from ICN and one staff member from Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole local authority (BCP LA) – usually a personal advisor or social worker.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help in improving the lives and life chances of young refugees arriving in the UK alone.

Main duties:

• Research, plan and devise educational activities/classes for the weekly sessions based on our Club Class framework

• Deliver and facilitate the weekly Club Class with the support of our youth support worker and the ICN support worker

• Source outside facilitators (volunteers) on occasion to deliver specialist sessions

• Ensure sessions are young people-led and participants have an opportunity to input into future Club Class sessions using our participatory feedback mechanism

• Provide emotional support and guidance to the group (please note this is not a casework role), referring individual young people to their case worker where one-to-one support is required 

• Ensure the highest level of safeguarding for the young people attending with adherence to The Separated Child Foundation’s safeguarding policy

• Work with the Programme Manager to evaluate Club Class with participants to ensure the sessions are appropriate and relevant to their needs, and propose amendments and improvements to the Club Class framework as required

• Gather feedback (anonymised where necessary) from participants to populate social media, support funding bids and include in programme management reporting

• Provide line manager with regular feedback on the sessions and future plans during routine catch up calls and Programme Manager in-person visits

For more information and the person spec, please refer to the full candidate pack.