Youth Worker

The role

London Motivate Youth Worker

Southern Housings in house charity Fresh Visions supports children, young people and adults who face extreme disadvantage as a result of poverty, domestic abuse, lack of education and social exclusion.

This is a Part-time 9 Hours per week Fixed Term Opportunity to November 2025.

This role will be the working on the Charity's Youth Clubs for 10-16 year olds, Motivate. The programme supports young people to gain confidence, make informed healthy lifestyle choices and progress into further learning and employment.

If you're passionate about delivering a comprehensive health & wellbeing programme for our residents and participants. Then come and join Southern Housing as a Youth Worker within our social impact team.

You will be joining us on a fixed term contract until 28th November 2025. You will work three days a week, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at three different locations from 3pm to 6pm.

To provide assistance in devising, planning and delivering an annual programme of young person-based projects and programmes. Ensuring activities contribute effectively to achieving measureable impact for young people's health & wellbeing progressions / outputs /outcomes. Helps deliver an annual work programme to help achieve the overall Social Impact Team targets.

What you'll need

• You'll ideally hold a relevant professional qualification in youth work/young persons' services or at least 2 years relevant youth work based similar experience.

• Successfully working with customers and community stakeholders to deliver youth provisions in line with current issues concerning young people.
• Successfully provide information advice and guidance to young people in groups and/or 1-2-1.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• You'll be experienced in supervising volunteers, project participants and young people.
• In addition, you'll develop and work in local project partnerships with other agencies/organisations including contracted co-workers/sessional workers.

Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025 at 23:59

Shortlisting: Week commencing 19th May 2025

Interviews: Week commencing 26th May 2025

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own!We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

Pension

Life
assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday
leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle
to work

Buy & sell
annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.