Youth Support Worker Apprenticeship

To work with young people to plan and lead positive activities that benefit them and the wider community. Support the Youth Services Team and the Communities team in planning, delivering and leading an exciting range of sessions and activities for children and young people.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Support the Youth Services Team and the Communities team in planning, delivering and leading an exciting range of sessions and activities for children and young people. This will include youth forum meetings and events; 11-19s clubs, summer play schemes; training and employment initiatives and Young Adventurers clubs (8-12’s sessions)
• Brief the youth worker staff before and after sessions you are leading on, ensuring the staff team has all the information they need
• Work directly with children and young people to encourage and support them to give their views and participate in activities. This will include attending, planning and leading a range of project sessions and meetings at various venues, including detached youth work and sessions in community venues. This will include evenings and occasionally weekend
• Help the Youth Services Team to actively involve children and young people in the design and evaluation of projects and services
• Help with record-keeping and administration, such as meeting notes, consent forms, attendance registers and project records
• Contribute towards the promotion of West Kent’s youth work and the achievements and successes of young people, through the production of newsletter articles, press releases and case studies
• Liaise with other local youth workers and our partner agencies to share ideas and good practice, attending network meetings as required
• Take part in supervision and staff meetings with the Community Development Manager and other Communities staff as required including West Kent Apprentices meetings and West Kent Wider Internal meetings
• Comply with West Kent’s Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity, Data Protection policies and other policies and guidelines identified by the Community Development Manager

Where you'll work

Four Elms Road
Edenbridge
TN8 6BY

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

JANCETT CHILDCARE & JACE TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Youth support worker (level 3)

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What you'll learn

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