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SalaryWe are currently recruiting a Youth Outreach Workerto join our Fearless team based in Surrey. This is a full time, fixed term role, working 37.5 hour per week and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £26,000 per annum. This role is home based, but regular travel across Surrey will be required, own car essential, travel expenses will be paid.
At Crimestoppers we believe everyone has the right to feel safe from crime, wherever they live. Hundreds of thousands of people trust us each year with their crime information by calling in or using our untraceable online form.
Fearless is the youth brand of Crimestoppers, offering young people access to nonjudgemental information and advice about crime and criminality. The work of Fearless is focused on helping young people make informed decisions about reporting crime.
Our charity gives people the power to speak up and stop crime, 100% anonymous. Always.
Benefits of becoming our Youth Outreach Worker:
- 30 days annual leave - with 3 days to be taken between Christmas and New Year (plus bank holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our discount scheme – Crimestoppers Advantage
- 4% pension contribution
- Life Insurance
- Plus many others
About the role:
As a Youth Outreach Worker, you will help young people to understand different crime topics and break down the barriers to reporting crime. This will be done through the delivery of workshops in schools and other youth settings. The Youth Outreach Worker will also build partnerships locally with other organisations, to provide a coordinated response to youth crime and exploitation across Surrey.
Key responsibilities of our Youth Outreach Worker:
- To deliver our Fearless programme for young people in Secondary Schools and youth settings across Surrey and for the professionals working with those young people;
- Facilitating a bespoke Fearless workshop
- Ensuring the workshop links to the prevention needs of young people within Surrey and surrounding area - To build partnerships locally with: Secondary schools/academies, Pupil Referral Unit’s (PRU), youth agencies, Police, Local Authorities and other organisations
- Support Fearless Head Office Team to develop content for Fearless social media platforms
- To create and build relationships to deliver activities in term time and school holidays
What we're looking for in our Youth Outreach Worker:
- Confident and organised individual
- Experience in evaluating outcomes
- The ability to plan your own work, use your initiative and meet deadlines
- Training and understanding of Safeguarding
- Experience of developing and delivering workshops
- Significant experience of working with young people
- Experience of working in a school environment or similar
- Understanding of key crime issues experienced by young people
- Experience of working in a youth setting e.g. youth clubs, PRU’s
- Excellent communication (including proficient use of MS Office programs), presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to work and communicate with a variety of different audiences and stakeholders
As you will come in to contact with young people, the successful applicant will be asked to complete a Disclosure & Barring Service check for this role.
To apply, please submit your Covering Letter and CV in one document. In your covering letter please outline how you meet the specific skills, knowledge, experience, and qualifications required.
Closing Date: Sunday January 28th at 23.59pm
Interview & presentation date: Tuesday February 6th to be held at our Head Office in Wallington.
No agencies please.
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