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Youth Development Lead - Foundations (East Midlands)

Job reference number: ZS041

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The Prince's Trust

Salary

£21,500.00 to £26,900.00 dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience

Location

LE3 9EJ

Job Overview

Picture yourself alongside our Outreach and Marketing wizards and our customer service champions. Together, we're on a mission to ensure our young people aren't just safe but also revved up and fully immersed in their journey with us here at The Prince’s Trust.

Could you become their personal champion? Imagine peeling back the layers to discover what's holding them back so that you can unlock their potential for astonishing progress. Imagine having your own group of young people to support who will turn to you for that one-on-one support, guidance, and maybe just a nudge in the right direction.

Safety always comes first, so keeping a watchful eye on safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection is part of the deal! You’ll be the guiding force that empowers our delivery partners and service providers to reach for the stars. Together, we will ensure every young person embarks on a remarkable journey, experiencing the extraordinary and achieving the dreams they've aspired to.

You’ll lead personal development sessions that take our foundation programmes to new heights. Whether it's in person or via a virtual session on MS Teams, some of these activities will be in the great outdoors and enjoying our wonderful green spaces. You won’t be sitting behind a screen every day, there will be some travel required to relevant local areas to support the delivery of these exciting programmes as well as programme visits. However, it’s not all fun and games, keeping things on point means meticulously recording info and data about our young superstars, volunteers, or partners. It's all about making sure every step of their journey aligns perfectly with our funding contracts.

At The Trust, we're strong advocates for fostering an inclusive workplace where everybody feels seen, and it would be fantastic if you share that passion too. Your mission? Making a positive impact by implementing a local action plan that harmonises with our big-picture EDI goals.

Be prepared for anything and everything. Alongside all these exciting responsibilities, you might even find yourself wearing different hats and stepping up when needed.

Ready to bring your A-game? Let's make every day count and create a brighter future for our young people of the future!

What will you do?
- Collaborate with Outreach and Marketing colleagues and our contact centre, to ensure young people are safely and successfully recruited and engaged. Build rapport with individual young people, exploring & identifying barriers to maximise their engagement and progression into sustained outcomes.
- Be responsible for a caseload of young people, providing one to one support and guidance with signposting where necessary.
- Ensure all delivery is completed within our quality frameworks and complies with safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection policies.
- Support the onboarding, training and management of delivery partners and service providers in accordance with assurance guidelines ensuring high-quality experience and outcomes for young people.
- Develop and deliver personal development sessions for our foundation programmes either directly or in collaboration with Delivery Partners, both face-to-face and virtually (using MS Teams). This includes outdoor learning and off-site residential stays.
- Collaborate with partners and external support agencies to ensure young people have a range of support and progression opportunities.
- Accurately record information and data on young people, volunteers, or partners to ensure each stage of the journey is accurately reflected on our systems and complies with the relevant aspects of our funding contracts.
- Coordinate the programmes day-to-day finances and procurement issues, including processing payments and expense claims for young people.

Skills and Qualifications required

- Must be able to attend Assessment Centre on 3rd or 4th of October at our Nottingham Centre
- Please submit a CV, and Cover Letter that includes your experience, transferrable skills and motivation to work for The Prince’s Trust!
Essential:
- Experience supporting young people to overcome barriers to accessing education, employment or training.
- Experience in developing and sustaining relationships with stakeholders and delivery partners to enable high quality delivery to young people.
- Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to take initiative and work under pressure in challenging environments.
- Experience of developing and delivering training and personal development interventions.
- Ability to manage a caseload of young people and prioritise their support.
- A strong understanding of the challenges young people within The Trust’s target groups face.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of safeguarding principles and protocols, and the ability to identify and respond to safeguarding concerns.
- Ability to work flexibly to occasionally support delivery commitments such as overnight residentials or extended hours.
Desirable:
- Qualifications, skills and experience in outdoor learning, creative arts or sport.
- Experience of working with and delivering training/educational activity to young people from diverse backgrounds and needs including experience of managing challenging behaviour (disruptive and/or disengaged)
- Working effectively across different departments and teams to drive shared results.
- Accurate data input recording on CRM systems.
- Youth working or educational qualifications, skills and experience
- Knowledge of local provision for young people.
- Knowledge of relevant statutory and voluntary services available to young people and their parents/carers in the local area.
- Hold first aid and level 2 food hygiene qualifications or be able to train towards.
- Minibus driving licence and/or car licence.

Hours per week

35

Closing Date

19/09/2024

Website

Apply for the job by visiting https://www.leicesteremploymenthub.co.uk/job-seekers/new-job-seeker-registration/