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Senior Youth Worker – Sports and Outreach
Job Posted: 8 days ago
Salary: £ 29,000/Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: City of London, London
Expire in: 20 days
Job Description
Senior Youth Worker - Sports and Outreach
London, UK
£27,500 - £29,000pa + Hybrid working
Permanent + Full time
XLP is a youth work charity working to create positive futures for young people and at the cutting edge of tackling poverty and educational failure in inner London. We deliver holistic, long-term work with young people aged 11 to 25 in schools and communities. We're looking for a Senior Youth Worker to join the team to enable us to continue this amazing youth work. As well as to grow our current offer for girls and young women. You'll also increase young people's physical participation in sports and fitness activities and help them develop greater life skills and more positive relationships along the way. There is an occupational requirement that this newly created role is performed by a female: we are particularly wanting to grow our fitness and sports activities for girls and young women and provide a supportive and safe environment we are therefore welcoming applications from females for this position.
Key Responsibilities
Lead football sessions for 11-18-year-olds, creating games that include football coaching principles;
Help coach and encourage young people in fitness sessions, with our running and cycling clubs and in XLP's gym in Stratford;
Lead / Develop our Girls Gym and Football Projects
Register young people and collect their details, inputting them into our tracking systems;
Design session plans for football and gym sessions;
Plan and attend regular sporting and activity day and weekend trips.
Deliver 1:1 community support for young people who are at risk of serious youth violence, exploitation and disengagement
Work with the other Senior Youth Workers and Youth Work Managers to identify the types of activity and locations that are appropriate to grow the projects;
Develop project resources and building team to deliver the project to our beneficiaries effectively and efficiently;
Requirements
Working with young people, with experience in an inner-city context;
Energising and mobilising volunteers to get the best out of a team;
Using sports to engage young people and have an interest in coaching;
Communication, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport easily
Setting a good example to the young people you work with;
Thinking on your feet and being able to respond quickly to challenging situations;
Being encouraging and having patience with people you work with;
Taking initiative and leading others
Working on your own;
Using MS Office and video conferencing software. In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to youBefore You Apply
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