Apprentice Youth Support Worker
1625 INDEPENDENT PEOPLE LTD
BRISTOL, BS2 0ER
Closes on Sunday 30 March 2025
Posted on 19 February 2025
Contents
Summary
We have been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund to turn our Grade 2* listed building in Old market, Bristol into a vibrant centre for young people. You will be working with our Participation and Learning team gaining lots of experience working with young people delivering social, educational and developmental activities.
- Wage
- £22,327 a year
- Training course
- Youth support worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 31 March
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Working alongside colleagues running activities, moving to leading your own sessions
- Contacting young people to encourage attendance and establish their interests
- Helping young people get involved in decision making and taking the lead
- Updating client information and keep accurate records
Where you’ll work
58-59 OLD MARKET STREET
BRISTOL
BS2 0ER
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
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
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
- 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
- Work based learning
- 121 monthly sessions with your Skills Coach
- 1 day in the work week to focus on apprenticeship work
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Mathematics (grade 4/C)
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
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Collaborative
- Empathy
- Emotionally Aware
- Transparency
- Inclusivity
- Facilitation
- Responsible
Other requirements
No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role.
About this company
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625 Independent People we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives. We have been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund to turn our Grade 2* listed building in Old market, Bristol into a vibrant centre for young people. Following this great news, we are recruiting a new team to work on an exciting heritage activity and volunteer programme.
After this apprenticeship
- Youth support worker.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Tilly Lawrence
01702 782001
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000305022.
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Closes on Sunday 30 March 2025
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