Youth Activity Worker – Connect!  (15 hours per week)

Involve Kent is an innovative and progressive charity committed to improving the wellbeing of young people and their families, ensuring they have opportunities to access ‘time out’ to achieve their goals and have fun!

Connect, a KCC short breaks service offers a program of activities and events to neurodivergent 9 – 18 year-olds with moderate needs empowering young people to build peer relationships while working towards goals and aspirations.

Working alongside our team of Youth Programme Coordinators and Volunteers your role will be to lead and guide young people at activities which are  community-based, safe, appealing, fun, and inclusive.

A JNC Level 3 Youth Work qualification is desired but not essential. Applications from those with lived and work experience with young people who are neurodivergent are welcomed.

You must have excellent communication and organisational skills, have a fun, can-do attitude with the ability to shape activities in an inclusive way in response to neurodivergent young people’s strengths and challenges.

This role also includes providing regulated activity with adults/children, employment will be subject to relevant checks with Disclosure and Barring service.

Please note, you must be able to drive, have access to a vehicle for this role and be prepared to work Kent wide.

See the full Job Description and Person Specification for the role as well as how to apply, below.

We at Involve Kent pride ourselves on being an employer of choice and encourage applications from experienced candidates and those with potential, irrespective of identity, background, life experience or circumstances, It’s vital that the voluntary sector is as diverse as the society we serve. We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring in terms of their culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor. This role also includes providing regulated activity with adults and employment is therefore subject to relevant checks with Disclosure and Barring service.