Support Worker (YEI)

The Youth Employment Initiative is part-funded by the European Social Fund as part of the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme in England.

Post: Support Worker
Location: Stockton/Hartlepool
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £19,000 pa
This is a fixed term contract ending July 2018

Duties include:

• Provision of support to the YEI co-ordinator, volunteers and sessional staff.
• Support referred young people to help them move forward by providing activities that link to their individual activity plans that will support their aspirations around enterprise and employment.
• Help to deliver activities and training that help participants tackle social isolation and build life skills.
• Encourage and enable service users to overcome the barriers they experience to social interaction and assist them in taking responsibility for their own social life. This will include supporting the delivery of coaching, mentoring and training delivered as one-to-one and group work sessions.
• Use and promote social interaction as a way of helping people to maintain and improve their social, cultural, mental and physical health and wellbeing. 
• Promote and encourage a healthy mental, physical, social and culturally active lifestyle.

Closing date 2nd May 2018

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Our client is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 

The organisation only accept their completed applications.

No agencies please.