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Job: Street Based Youth Worker (P/T) (25 hours)
Job Ref: RE-1852
Salary: £26,403.00 - To: £28,598.00
Job Scale: Gradd 3 / Grade 3
Job Hours: 25 Awr / 25 Hours
Location: Bwrdeistref gyfan / Borough-wide
Grade 3 SCP 7-12 = £26,403 - £28,598 per annum pro rata
25 Hours = 67.56% = £17,837 - 19,320 per annum
Job Purpose
To plan and deliver appropriate activities that respond to the educational and developmental needs of young people not attending existing youth and community services within the County Borough.
To take responsibility for delivery of a specific area/specialism of youth work and community work in partnership with colleagues to ensure effective delivery across the borough.
Main Tasks performed
To deliver face to face work with young people through a Street based approach within the County Borough.
To support partners in the delivery of specific learning programmes that sit on the qualification framework or contribute to wider learning needs, for young people who are at risk of becoming disengaged from education, training or employment (NEET) or involved in anti-social activities/ behaviours
To plan and deliver informal educational programmes, including opportunities for accredited learning, for young people in partnership with young people and the wider community that respond to the needs identified.
To plan and evaluate your own practice through the completion of agreed systems and procedures, effectively evidencing your contribution towards the aims and objectives of the programme.
To maintain systems that ensure young people are consulted and involved in the planning of the programme and engaged in the decision-making process. Enable young people to establish and maintain links with forums especially the Merthyr Tydfil Youth Forum, School Councils and to encourage Young People to be represented on National Forums.
To ensure children and young people’s progression is fully supported through maintaining effective and comprehensive evidence of young peoples’ development and achievements, in line with the needs of the service and the young people.
To ensure that children and young people receive access to appropriate information and advice services, signposting to other services and supporting young people as appropriate.
To support and develop the participation of young people within the project, through consultations, youth committee’s and the implementation of the participation toolkit.
To adhere to the policies and practices of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council including Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Child Protection.
To comply with agreed methods of data capture and recording for the outputs and outcomes of the service.
To identify and order relevant resources in support of the delivery of a balanced curriculum of learning opportunities and activities, within agreed or available resources. To be responsible for and to follow the MTCBC guidelines about the maintenance of the equipment inventory.
Ensure safe working practices, adhering to MTCBC Health and Safety procedures and practices.
To be responsible for any financial duties aligned to the provision and adhere to the MTCBC policies regarding financial regulations.
To be responsible for building management and health and safety in line with MTCBC Health and Safety guidelines, policies and procedures.
To carry out any other tasks deemed appropriate to the role.
On occasions there may be a requirement to support young people who have multiple complex issues and need extra support. Applying a team around the family approach delivering the lead working role and establishing links and working with parents to support these young people to maintain engagement and to address any inhibiting factors that are detrimental to their personal development.
To carry out Health & Safety responsibilities in accordance with the Authority’s Health & Safety policies.
To carry out any other duties commensurate with the grade as reasonably requested by the manager.
To comply with the Council’s decarbonisation requirements to achieve net zero carbon emissions.
You will be required to provide evidence of all qualifications specified as essential.
Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.
All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Any breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.
We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.
Safeguarding Statement
Merthyr Tydfil LA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.