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Youth Development Worker
Youth Development Worker – Bristol Foyer Registration Scheme (Part-Time)
Do you thrive on empowering young people to reach their full potential? Can you inspire, motivate, and guide them through life’s challenges? If so, we would love to hear from you! Join our passionate Support team at LiveWest’s Bristol Foyer, offering a vibrant supported accommodation service for young people aged 16–25.
About the Role
At LiveWest, we champion a strength-based approach—helping young people experiencing homelessness dream big, set bold goals, and build the resilience needed for independent living. As a youth development worker, you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming aspirations into tangible outcomes.
At the heart of the role, you will:
- Provide one-to-one key worker support, fostering trust and empowerment.
- Design tailored support plans, aligning with individual goals.
- Allocate and administer budgets, ensuring funds are used to sustain tenancies or other essential needs.
- Manage risk assessments and key worker plans for safe progression.
- Guide beneficiaries through practical skill-building, including financial management, bill-paying, and budgeting.
- Support access to benefits (Universal Credit, PIP, Housing Benefit) and navigate social welfare systems.
- Facilitate relationships with education/training providers and employers to enhance employment prospects.
- Safely navigate moving on to independent living, ensuring young people are fully-prepared to thrive beyond the Foyer.
Key Accountabilities
Client Support & Empowerment: Deliver compassionate one-to-one support, adopting a strength-based model to build self-esteem and agency among beneficiaries.
Individualised Planning: Collaborate with young people to craft detailed action plans with realistic, measurable goals.
Rebuilding Social Connections: Engage beneficiaries with wider community networks, promoting durable social relationships.
Career Pathways: Help individuals secure and sustain employment, education, or training, aligning opportunities with their aspirations.
Independence Preparation: Mentally and practically prepare young people for housing independence via proactive planning and de-risking of potential rent ruptures.
Strategic Spending: Allocate budgets purposefully, ensuring living stability and enabling beneficiaries to move towards self-sufficiency.
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Conflict Resolution & Consultation: Mediate disputes with beneficiaries, partners, or external stakeholders to uphold a positive, person-centred environment.
Opportunities & Personal Development
This role offers a meaningful career opportunity with LiveWest, fostering your growth and passions for working with young people. Members of the team already enjoy:
- Opportunities to share good practices, collaborate across teams, and learn from specialist colleagues.
- A supportive culture encouraging innovation and empathy, which is central to our vision of helping youth achieve their potential.
- The chance to lead and innovate, with encouragement to shape initiatives based on your expertise.
Working Arrangements
- Part-time (18.5 hours per week)
- Typical hours: 8:00am–10:00pm (flexible with needed consultations)
- Weekends: Required for 1 in every 6 weekends on a rolling rota (including bank holidays).
Essential Skills & Experience
You will demonstrate:
- A strong ability to build rapport with young people and sustain trust-based relationships amidst adversity.
- Tenciar and problem-solving skills to secure the most appropriate outcomes in complex, multi-agency scenarios.
- A nuanced understanding of safeguarding, mental health challenges, risky behaviours, attachment difficulties, and substance-use issues in young people’s lives.
- Exceptional communication and facilitation, adapting to offer creative, empowering approaches and avoiding jargon.
- Offer management experience, with a high capacity for multitasking in a person-centred environment.
- The capacity to analyse, synthesise and express your holistic perspective with honesty and credibility.
Nice-To-Have Experiences
- A history of working in targeted youth re-engagement, probation or young offenders’ interventions, or within the specialist homeless-sector.
- Experience with social work training in community pathways or vulnerable adults.
- Knowledge of associated confidentiality protocols within residential settings or court-ordered pathways.
Note: Access to a vehicle may be beneficial, though travel/pay expenses are covered or partly covered.
About LiveWest
We are a housing, care, leisure, and community-based giant, driven by the shared mission of “Creating a home for everyone”. Our dedicated team of 1,800+ colleagues serves 80,000+ customers across the South West through 450+ services, covering the full housing continuum across four areas.
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Our mindset is built on collaboration and diversity. By embracing every colleague’s unique perspective, we enhance our services, problem-solving, and professional integrity. At LiveWest, we’re equal opportunity specialists, fostering inclusivity with a focus on young talent, armed forces families, and disability allies.
Safeguarding & Equality
This role places you in a position of trust with vulnerable young people. Appointments are made only following enhanced DBS checks. LiveWest proudly supports inclusion, adhere to Equality Act 2010, and champion disability confident recognised practices and the Armed Forces Covenant.
Benefits
Joining LiveWest enables you to thrive with a range of benefits:
- 40+ Days Leave (26 + 14 accrued + 5 additional purchase* days/year).
- Pension Scheme (up to 9% employer contribution; flexible contribution options).
- Wellbeing Support with flu vaccinations, mental health aid,-care homes, virtual consultations, and engagement campaigns.
- Discovery Schemes—car benefit, cycle to work savings.
- Health Perks—Up to £1,100 annual healthcare cashback, plus gym and retail discounts (Blue Light benefits harnessed).
- Support for Families (support with childcare, parental leave policies, and a new child payment).
- Learning & Progression Pathways: Comprehensive up-skilling (e.g., qualifications to progression) in your field alongside role enrichment.
- Volunteer Days: Up to four paid community days/year.
- Easy Travel: Transports, parking, or public transport stipends managed to support mobility.
*Pro-rated for part-time hours—5 days capped.
Join Our Changing Community
Help us transform our communities with a career where every voice matters. Your contribution, passion, and dedication will alignus’enbolding futures for young people across Bristol, and it all starts with understanding and maintaining a deep level of compassion and creativity in your every interaction. Apply and be part of something magnificent.
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