Youth Programme Coordinator Connect Countywide  – Based throughout the county of Kent

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 to ‘time out’ to achieve their goals and have fun!

Connect, a KCC short breaks service, will provide ‘time out’ to neurodiverse 9 – 18 year-olds with moderate needs. We will be offering a program of activities and events empowering young people to build and sustain peer relationships while working towards goals and aspirations.

Your role will be to lead on a program of enjoyable and supportive activities and events in coproduction with young people and their families while building a network of community resources, working to maximise and sustain engagement and achieve contractual outcomes. A JNC Level 3 Youth Work qualification is desired but not essential. Applications from those with lived experience with neurodiverse young people are welcomed.

You must have excellent communication, organisational skills and have a fun, can-do attitude with the ability shape a project in an inclusive and responsive way.

If you are interested in the role and would like to know more, please call us for a chat on:  07474 708132

This role also includes providing regulated activity with adults and employment is therefore subject to relevant checks with Disclosure and Barring service.

For more information please download the full Job Description below.

At Involve Kent, we 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.