Croydon Youth Service are recruiting for the following three posts:

Youth Participation Worker - YOF/YCF Project
JNC Professional Youth Worker
YWP2  Pt 19 – 22   £25,993- £28283 + £1,829 OLW

The Youth Participation Worker – YOF/YCF Project will be responsible for co-ordinating and delivering the Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Fund Project in Croydon. This involves ensuring that the project is innovative, participative, challenging, exciting and enjoyable for the young people. From facilitating the young people’s management team, to overseeing the financial and monitoring processes, the post-holder will ensure that the fund is promoted, steered and owned by young people in Croydon, for young people in Croydon.

Youth Participation Worker - Quality Assurance
JNC Professional Youth Worker
YWP2  Pt 19 – 22   £25,993- £28,283 + £1,829 OLW

The Youth Participation Worker – Quality Assurance will be responsible for enabling young people to take the lead in evaluating and quality assuring YOF and YCF projects as well as the wider Positive Activity programmes provided by the Youth Service. The worker will involve young people in managing and developing systems of quality assurance, communicating their findings to other young people and adults and supporting projects to improve. The post holder will also manage designated part-time staff.

Youth Participation Worker – LDD Support
JNC Professional Youth Worker

YWP 2 Pt 19-22  £25,993- £28,283 + £1,829 OLW (Qualified)
YWP 1.1 Pt 14-15 £22,630-£23,287 + £1,829 OLW (in Training)

The Youth Participation Worker (LDD Support) will work to include and involve young people with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities in all Active Involvement programmes. Through outreach, 1:1 and group support and project delivery, the post-holder will develop and increase the engagement of young people with LDD in Active Involvement programmes. The post holder will also manage designated part-time staff.

Closing date for all three posts: 29 September 2008.

Job Description-Youth Participation Worker - YOF/YCF Project

Job Description-Youth Participation Worker - Quality Assurance

Job Description-Youth Participation Worker – LDD Support

Staying Positive Young People’s Programme

Trainers

£23,458 - £31,779 pro rata + benefits

Peripatetic – 1 year fixed term contract
1 post: Northern Region (Manchester/Liverpool/Leeds)
1 post: Central Region (Birmingham area)
Freelance opportunities available UK wide

EPP is a spark that starts a revolution in some people’s lives.  We are an independent community interest company that offers courses to people with long term health conditions, helping them to live with and self manage their health problems, whilst encouraging them to work collaboratively with health and social care professionals.

Staying Positive is a self management programme for young people aged 12-18 years who are living with a long term health condition. The programme was developed as a result of direct consultation with teenagers and involves a series of workshops, facilitated by trained volunteers (aged 14 – 25 yrs) .The programme helps young people to improve the management of their condition from both a health and social perspective.

As a peripatetic worker, working from home and our regional office, you will be responsible for recruiting, training and developing young people with the potential to deliver the Staying Positive Programme.

You will liaise with statutory and voluntary sector services to win support and participation; ensure good communications and relationships with key stakeholders; managing volunteers and resources; and act as the lead expert at strategic and operational level for the Staying Positive Programme.

Training experience and group facilitation skills are required along with significant experience of working directly with children and young people in a statutory or voluntary agency setting. Direct personal experience of, or an empathy with making major life adjustments due to long term health conditions, will be required. Excellent listening, written and verbal communication, negotiation and influencing skills will be essential. You must also be willing and able to travel extensively and work weekends and evenings.

To express an interest and for a more detailed job description and application form, please e-mail charles.brown@fenninglovatt.com
If you would like to discuss the role please contact Cathy McMahon on 01225 731326

Closing date: 26th August 2008.
Interviews: w/c 1 September 2008.

Young Advisors Charity

Job Title: Development Manager

Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Manchester

Salary: NJC SCP 34-37: £27,594 - £30,598

Young Advisors are looking to recruit a dynamic, flexible and young person centred Development Manager to join our progressive youth lead organisation.  With a background in training and business development you will support Young Advisors and their leads to develop their projects, and support the set up of new projects nationally.

Closing Date: 30th September 2008

British Youth Council

International Representation Coordinator

Contract: Full-Time

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary £26,025 – £30,018. (NJC pay scale: 28 -33 inc. Inner London Weighting), depending on experience

Location: London

International Representation Coordinator for the British Youth Council
Are you passionate about international issues and supporting young people to participate in decisions which affect them?

The British Youth Council (BYC) is an organisation led by young people for young people, with a history of international work dating back to 1948. BYC believes that decisions taken internationally have an impact at the local level and vice versa. In this, our 60th year, we are launching an ambitious new programme which will lead to inclusive, effective and recognised UK youth participation at international meetings (EU, Commonwealth, global).

The International Youth Representation Coordinator will set up and deliver a newly funded programme ‘Young UK Ambassadors’ with the support of part-time workers based in the UK Youth Parliament, the Northern Ireland Youth Forum and Funky Dragon (Welsh Youth Parliament). The role will be pivotal in building awareness of international issues amongst young people and ensuring that UK youth participation at the international level grows from and feeds back into wider representation structures.

Experienced, ambitious with an eye for the bigger picture, the International Youth Representation Coordinator will have excellent communication and inter-personal skills and a creative, professional approach to their work. A genuine passion for supporting young people’s participation and tackling international issues is essential.

Based at BYC’s London Bridge offices, with occasional travel around the UK and internationally, this post is offered on a full-time contract until the 31st of March 2010 subject to funding, and is dependent on the successful applicant having an enhanced CRB check.

To have informal discussion or to find out more please call Daniel Smith, Head Of International on 0207 785 6462.
 

Closing date for applications: Friday the 29th of August, 17:00.

Interviews will take place on the 9th and 10th of September.

Rainer Crime Concern
Project Worker-Integrated Youth Support Service
Location: Lewisham,
Hours: Full Time

Salary: Up to £22,888 

We’re already achieving great things in Lewisham. You’ll help to develop our existing success in the north of this Borough, on the Silwood Estate, as part of a new multi-agency, integrated youth support service – incorporating a generic youth service, as well as a targeted crime prevention programme. This potential flagship model of delivery, if successful, could well be replicated elsewhere in Lewisham.

You’ll provide support for our core group - the 13-17 year olds who are most at risk of offending, and their families. A typical intervention will last for 6-8 months, and you’ll make sure that it meets the service user’s individual needs – ensuring that effective multi-agency identification, referral and initial assessment processes are in place.

Helping young people and their families to get involved in designing, implementing and evaluating our intervention programmes, you’ll advocate on their behalf where appropriate. This will mean liaising with key agencies including schools, police and the Youth Offending Team.

With a relevant qualification or experience in youth or community work, you’ll have a track record of engaging young people who display challenging behaviour. Highly organised and with plenty of initiative, you should be comfortable managing your own time. It’s important that you understand issues relating to truancy and exclusion, youth crime prevention, youth justice and community safety.

Finally, you must be able to work regular evenings and occasional weekends.

Closing Date: 12.00pm 4th September 2008.

For further details and an application form visit our website, www.rainercrimeconcern.org.uk  or e-mail recruitment@rainercrimeconcern.org.uk

Contract Type: Fixed term: end date 31st March 2010, however likelihood is to continue

Evaluation of the Participation Works Programme

Invitation to Tender

August 2008

The Participation Works consortium of agencies comprises of the British Youth Council (BYC), Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), National Children's Bureau (NCB), The National Youth Agency (NYA), National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) and Save the Children-England.

Participation Works aims to support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to actively involve children and young people in all aspects of designing, delivering and evaluating services that affect their lives, in order to successfully meet their needs.

Download tender specification with application details   

Questions about this specification should be addressed to Catherine Shaw at the National Children’s Bureau cshaw@ncb.org.uk or 020 7843 6077

Applications should be submitted by email to ctook@ncb.org.uk to arrive by 12.00 on 5th September 2008.

Torbay Council
Youth Service Project Manager
Salary Grade: SO2/P1 £26067 - £28919
Contract: Full-Time Permanent
Hours: 37

Key Purpose of Job

To help young people achieve their potential through relevant support and interventions appropriate to the needs of each young person.

To undertake strategic and operational responsibility at a senior level for project-wide service delivery and development, and responsibility for Service-wide developments.

Closing Date: 29 August 2008, 5pm.

To apply visit: http://www.torbay.gov.uk/apps2/TorbayJobs/Forms/JobDetails.aspx?JI=423&JA=0

Salary £20,736 - £22,845 pa pro rata (pay award pending)
Closing Date 01/8/2008
Reference No. 08-62350
Description Children's Service

Planning & Performance Service

30 hours per week

Based at Riverside in Keynsham, this is an exciting opportunity to work strategically with children and young people, particularly those who find it harder to get their voices heard, to ensure their views and participation make a difference to the services they receive.

You will work closely with the Children and Young People's Participation Strategy Group to implement the Bath and North East Somerset Strategy for the Participation of Children and Young People, leading on the development of new structures to enable children and young people's meaningful participation in the Children's Trust arrangements. This work initially will include:

• Developing and coordinating of a programme of web based consultation and participation activity on the B-Active Youth Zone (www.b-active.info)
• setting up an in care council and other ways for children and young people in care to participate in the decisions that effect them
• supporting the development of participation activity in Local Area Partnerships

You will be able to form positive relationships with children and young people, as well as being committed to and enthusiastic about participation work. You will be able to evidence previous experience of working with children and young people in fun and creative ways to involve them in decision making. You will be able to think critically and reflectively about your practice to ensure children and young people's involvement in decision making is meaningful.

You will be joining an organisation that is genuinely committed to children and young people making a real difference to how services work for them, now and in the future, and be supported by a well established Multi-Agency Strategy Group with considerable knowledge, skills and expertise in participation work.

Hours can be worked flexibly but please note some evening work will be required.
 

For an informal discussion please contact Rosie Dill (Strategic Planning Officer) on 01225 477820.

To apply, please visit our website at www.bathnes.gov.uk/jobs.

Alternatively, please email people_services@bathnes.gov.uk or telephone 01225 396409 (24 hours), quoting the reference number and post title.

Closing date: 1st August 2008.

Interview date: 11th August 2008.

Prior to appointment, an application for a Disclosure Certificate from the Criminal Records Bureau will be required for this post.

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