Youth Support Worker Apprentice

Summary

We are currently seeking to appoint a personable and motivated Youth Support Worker Apprentice to work with the Student Enrichment Coordinator and Curriculum areas to assist in the provision of student enrichment to all learners at the college.

Annual wage: £16,375 a year
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Training course: Youth support worker (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5pm
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 20 November
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

To establish and maintain positive relationships with students, using informal education and enrichment opportunities to develop young people’s personal and social education
To provide supervision of communal spaces
To use strategies such as one-to-one pastoral support, peer support and group work, including mentoring and coaching
To support teaching staff in developing learners’ behaviours, skills, and knowledge, inspiring learners to improve confidence, self-reliance and communication skills
To support the Student Enrichment Coordinator to organise and deliver relevant enrichment and social activities, maximising students’ sense of community at college
To support with the completion of relevant incident reports in line with Health & Safety and organisational procedures
To support and apply the organisation’s safeguarding policies and procedures at all times
To model college values in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Undertake such other duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably required by your line manager within the level and grading of the post, working flexibly across other areas of the department/division and College as required

Where you’ll work

GATTON POINT

LONDON ROAD

REDHILL

SURREY

RH1 2JX

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

EAST SURREY COLLEGE

Your training course

Youth support worker (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Recognise, manage and reflect upon relational boundaries in professional youth support work

Communicate with stakeholders - internal and/or external

Facilitate the learning and development of young people

Encourage the participation of young people in developing their own learning

Facilitate activities and techniques to use with young people that promote self-confidence and build self-esteem and resilience

Reflect individually and through supervision on practice in line with daily tasks to enhance the support young people receive

Monitor and record the outcomes of own practice to identify areas for development and improvement

Appropriately manage behaviour boundaries in line with organisational policies

Plan youth support work programmes and sessions

Lead youth support work programmes and sessions

Evaluate youth support work programmes and sessions

Enable young people to express their views, aspirations, needs and concerns appropriately in line with youth support work principles

Identify, appropriately challenge and act upon oppressive or discriminatory attitudes, behaviours and situations

Support young people to participate in planning, organising, delivering and evaluating youth work activities and programmes, and engaging on issues of importance to them

Embeds in own practice a commitment to the rights of young people

Apply safeguarding procedures and protocols

Work within the parameters of organisational, local and national health and safety, child protection, data protection and equalities policies and procedures

Participate in risk assessments and manage risk and risk benefits within the workplace

Record all health and safety risks and take the correct actions to ensure the safety of all young people

Complete administrative responsibilities e.g., signing in young people, risk assessments and recording activities

Manage budgets and resources

Manage individuals in line with organisational procedures

Work with and maintain professional behaviour boundaries when working with young people

Your training plan

Training will take place at East Surrey College

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4 or above)
Maths (grade 4 or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Team working

About this company

East Surrey College (part of Orbital South Colleges) is a successful vocational college situated in Redhill, Surrey between Croydon and Gatwick welcoming students from a wide geographic area. We deliver a wide variety of full-time study programmes for young people and a range of full and part-time qualification and non-qualification courses for adults, including evening and Saturday courses. Our full-time study programme offer for 16-18s also includes a range of T Levels.

https://www.esc.ac.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Qualified Youth Worker

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

EAST SURREY COLLEGE

Ameerah Rujbally

r2@esc.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000278355.

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Closes in 27 days (Sunday 20 October)

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