We are excited to be recruiting a new Team Leader – Engagement and Participation.
This crucial role within our organisation leads on planning, designing and implementing a consistent and wide range of youth voice, participation and engagement opportunities for all young people accessing 1625ip services. Our Engagement and Participation Team Leader also plays a lead role in progressing the youth voice aims and objectives in our organisational strategy.
Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 5th February 2025.
We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritised ethnic groups, Black/Black British, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.
If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.
Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.
What You Will Be Doing
* You are someone who values youth voice as a tool that empowers young people to affect change about issues that matter to them.
* Your passion for empowering and supporting young people will give you the motivation and creative skills to ensure that the youth voice and participation offer at 1625ip is high quality, co-produced with young people, and is varied and accessible.
* You will also strive to ensure that youth voice and participation is well co-ordinated and embedded across the whole organisation.
* By being empathetic and truly understanding the complex needs of homeless young people / young people leaving care, and the barriers they face, you will also be equipped to design and implement a reengagement offer for all our young people.
* You are someone who line manages others with confidence; you coach and support them with passion. This role will involve line management of our Engagement and Participation Workers.
* As a person with vision and oversight, who is also highly solution focussed, you will be very involved in the delivery of our aims and objectives in the youth voice section of our organisational strategy.
You will be based within our Reboot West team and work closely with our Participation and Learning Team (PAL.) Your line manager will be our Programme Manager – Prevention Support and EET services (PSEET.)
At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job.
No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.
Contract details
* Hours per week: 37.5 Per Week (This represents full time)
* Contract type: Permanent
* Pay: £32,654 - £35,235 (NJC scale 22-25)
* The location: Kingsley Hall – there is also flexibility and support to manage working from home.
A Few Benefits At 1625ip
In return for your dedication, we offer:
* A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
* Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF
* A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing
* 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.
Important dates
* Application deadline closes: 23:59, Wednesday 5th February 2025.
* If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Monday 10th February 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
* Interviews are on Monday 17th February 2025.
Application information
Ready to see yourself in this rewarding role? We can’t wait to hear from you.
* Please click here to download the Job Pack. This includes the criteria that will be assessed at application and interview.
* Please click here to download the application form.
* You will be asked to answer 5 questions at the end of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
* Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form.
* Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to Kingsley Hall (our main office in Old Market). An online application will then be created for you.
Contact us
* To have an informal chat about the role, please contact [email protected]
* If you have any queries, please email [email protected]
* For support with your application should you need it, Future Bright - WECA provide free coaching.
Equitable opportunities for everyone
We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications.
As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager.
We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer, and have made the Menopause Workplace, Mental Health at Work, and Bristol Equality Charter pledges.
Please see our Policies section on the website, for further information. #J-18808-Ljbffr