Youth Participation Worker
Location:Birmingham
Salary:£25,842 - £27,882
Contract Type:Permanent, 37 hours
About The Role
An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to join our Aquarius service in Birmingham. The Youth Participation Worker will facilitate and develop a youth steering group for The Aquarius service in Birmingham, support aftercare for young people leaving treatment, and coordinate and facilitate diversionary activities to support young people and their families.
The post holder will develop and support delivery of volunteer programmes inclusive of peer support and peer mentoring programmes. They will ensure that service user participation and empowerment is implemented across the service.
In addition, the post holder will:
1. Actively recruit volunteers and peer mentors.
2. Facilitate Youth Steering group meetings.
3. Work with management to develop and implement a service user involvement strategy, including establishing and supporting a service user board.
4. Develop and deliver volunteer, peer mentoring and service user involvement programmes in accordance with the Aquarius organisational framework.