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Mar
2022

Merseyside Youth Association Ltd – Detached Youth Work Team Leader

Posts available: 1.
Contract: Fixed Term Funded to 31 January 2024 (With the Potential to be Extended to 31st January 2026).
Term: Full-time.
Salary: £23,469 – £26,769 p.a. – MYA Grade 5 Pt. 17-20.
Hours per week: 35 hours.
Reporting to: Line Manager.
Location: Knowsley.

MYA requires an experienced, committed, and innovative Detached Youth Work Team Leader who brings creativity, energy, and strong youth engagement skills to supporting young people’s development.

The post holder will lead a small team of detached youth workers to engage and build respectful, honest, challenging, and supportive relationships with young people including those who may previously have had little contact with services and may be hard to reach. The role will include the co-ordination of planning for co-designed programmes developed with and for young people who present with complex issues and behaviours which may include anti-social behaviour, substance misuse, offending and significant risk-taking.

These innovative programmes of detached and outreach youth work will meet the needs of children, young people and families, facilitating the development of physical health, emotional well-being, supporting educational attainment, and preventing/reducing youth crime.

The post holder must hold relevant qualification to at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a related subject.

To read the full job description and to apply, please visit the Merseyside Youth Association Ltd website.

For more information, please contact recruitment@mya.org.uk.

Deadline: 5 pm on Monday 28 March 2022.

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