Youth Worker (Part Time)

What we’re looking for:

• Do you have experience of leading and delivering fun and engaging activities for young people (8 to 18 years), for example sports, arts, crafts, or cookery?
• Do you have a track record of working with and support young people?
• Are you a leader that has a vibrant and confident personality?
• Are you committed to and understand equality, diversity, and inclusion with the ability to work within a culturally diverse community and have a readiness to challenge discriminatory behaviour?
• Do you understand and experience of safeguarding young children and young adults?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

We would particularly love to hear from you, if you have a particular interest that informs your youth work practice! This could be sports, creativity, wellness, and anything else that you think will spark young people's imaginations!

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a {Vacancy Title} on a Fixed Term basis (12 months) at our Community Centre based in Hackney (Pembury).

A bit about the role:

As a Youth Worker (Part Time), you will will engage with young people from the local community, designing and delivering a relevant and exciting programme of activities, as well as supporting them to develop and lead on their own projects.

Some of the key results for the role include:

• To deliver fun and engaging sessions for young people.
• Taking the lead and supporting the delivery of enriched programmes of positive activities and reflective sessions, weekly during term time and during school holidays, taking accountability for security and safe working within the youth sessions.
• Welcoming young people into the Pembury Community Centre (and any other spaces where Children's Community youth activities are delivered).

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check and you will require flexibility to work evenings, Saturdays as well as daytime hours during the school holidays. This is a 52 week per year role.

A bit about us:

160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.

The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role)

• Up to 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates 

• Two additional paid volunteering days each year 

• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal 

Are you ready to apply?

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position ofYouth Worker (Part Time), please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role. 

If you need to ask us anything else at all, feel free to drop an email to Julie-Ann.O'Malley@peabody.org.uk and one of our team will be in touch.

Peabody reserves the right to close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.