Job Description
* Suffolk Refugee Support
* Address: Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3EP
* Salary: £17,748 actual per annum (£29,580 pro rata, for 35 hours per week)
* Hours: 21 hours a week
* Contract: Permanent*. Required as soon as possible
* Reference: 0348
* Subject to a 3 months’ probation review.
Charity no: 1078794.
Suffolk Refugee Support aims to ensure that all asylum seekers and refugees in Suffolk are enabled to live integrated, fulfilled and contributing lives in their new communities. We provide a welcoming environment where clients can access help, advice, support and practical services in order to be healthy and safe and begin to rebuild their lives.
We work with external agencies, community and voluntary sector organisations, health providers and others to enable our clients to access a range of support. We are based in Ipswich, but our services operate increasingly out on location with refugees and asylum seekers housed in accommodation across Suffolk.
The Youth Coordinator will work with children and young people under the age of 25. This cohort is made up of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), young asylum seekers or refugees living independently, and children and young people living in refugee or asylum-seeking families. This group have specific needs, and the role will be a mixture of advice work and delivery and coordination of projects to help promote the personal, educational, creative and social development of young people.
You will be required to work 21 hours a week (days to be confirmed with the successful candidate). You will usually be expected to work 1 to 2 evenings per week (including Tuesdays and Thursdays), and occasional weekends.
To find out more
For further information, please call 01473 400785 or email Marianne Walker on hr@suffolkrefugee.org.uk
How To Apply
For a recruitment pack, please visit our website, call 01473 400785 or email Marianne Walker on hr@suffolkrefugee.org.uk
Closing date: 12 pm, 26 August 2025.
Interview date: 4 September 2025 (we aim to notify shortlisted candidates by 28 August 2025).
Important note on Working with Minors
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, must be declared at the application stage.
The successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check to be carried out upon commencement of employment. The successful applicant must be eligible to work in the UK.
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