Youth Worker in Earlsfield

Permanent, Full time (1 FTE - 36 hours per week over 38 weeks per annum Term-Time only). South Thames College have an exciting opportunity for a Youth Worker to be part of a high performing Student Support team. The postholder will work in close liaison with students, staff and external organisations to contribute to a wide-ranging student enrichment programme.

Through an enrichment programme, you will either directly deliver, help support, arrange and organise activities for a large number of students that supports them to engage with the wider community of college life and the preparation of life in society. You should have a key interest in relevant activities which may include sport, that can be delivered to students. You will have experience of delivering workshops/tutorials around a range of subjects that provide students predominately aged 16-19 to make informed choices.

With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build rapport with a wide range of customers, you will have proven experience of working with young people to challenge behaviour where required, reinforce students to attend and be on time to lessons and signpost to relevant services where required. You will be responsible for overseeing a safeguarding cohort as part of the college safeguarding team, a core function of the Student Support Services division, which may mean meeting students regularly, attending relevant internal and external meetings with other professionals.

You should be able to work independently but also proactively as part of an existing team, to enhance the overall experience of students. We’d like our Youth Worker to have strong IT skills to effectively market and record all service provision and demonstrate excellent communication skills to engage students, staff and other stakeholders.

A Level 3 qualification (Youth & Community, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Health & Social Care) is essential.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave, an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities, professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. The benefits package will be pro-rated for part time staff.

As outlined in the Public Sector Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2010, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

As part of our due diligence checks on prospective employees, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London’s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students’ success at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.