About The Service
Our Youth Service Team is looking to employ a Assistant Youth support Worker Corporate Trainee based at Gabalfa Youth and Community centre to contribute to our Service helping us to deliver
Our Youth Service Team is looking to employ a Corporate Trainee based at the Northwest locality.
Our Youth Service consists of a talented and enthusiastic team of professional youth workers who operate a range of provisions across the city for young people aged 11-25. This set up consists of youth centres, specialist provisions, targeted support, project work and street-based youth work teams that all provide a wide variety of creative opportunities and experiences that encourage the participation and development of young people in communities.
Northwest locality is a neighbourhood youth provision based in the Northeast of the city and works with young people aged 11-25, many who live in the surrounding communities of insert all areas of your locality or city wide. Gabalfa youth and community offers a variety of creative and exciting activities to engage young people that promote life
Cardiff Council delivers over 700 different services to residents of Cardiff, visitors, and businesses across the city. As a local government organisation, our customers depend on us to deliver our essential services, every day. Whether employed in a customer facing, technical, trade or support role, our employees help us to make a difference to our communities. As it is important to us that our workforce better reflects the communities we serve, and that we support our residents to overcome barriers to employment, you must live within the boundaries of Cardiff to be eligible to apply for this Corporate Trainee role. Check your postcode here: http://ishare.cardiff.gov.uk/mycardiff.aspx
This role will involve working online from home and/or a mix of home and office (hybrid) working.
About the job
In this Corporate Trainee role, you will learn to:
Develop the skills you need to fully contribute to our Service and will learn to engage and support young people. You will be supporting the team with event, project & workshop planning, delivery and evaluation. You will support the team to collate data such as membership, attendance and participation. You will be required to carry out a number of IT based tasks and be happy to use a computer to create documents using a variety of software.
As part of a team who are responsible for supporting young people to develop holistically, you will be working face to face with young people to facilitate their personal, social and educational development, to enable them to develop their voice, influence and place in society and to reach their full potential.
To support your development, you will receive on the job training and supervision to help you deliver an efficient and effective service in a positive and customer focussed manner. You will also be supported by your manager and a named mentor to who will encourage you to develop a range of transferrable skills to support your career progression.
Many of our teams work online with a mix of home or hybrid (office) working. Where homeworking is required, you will be given the necessary equipment and training, however, you will need to arrange your own internet connectivity (support may be available to help with this).
The post holder will be expected to work unsociable hours including evenings and some weekends. The Open access youth provision run from Gabalfa Youth and Community Centre and takes place over five evenings with an evening session usually 6-9pm.
If after reading the job description, you have any questions about the role please contact Gareth Bendle, Youth Development Officer for Northwest Cardiff. Gareth.Bendle@cardiff.gov.uk
What We Are Looking For From You
Our customers depend on us to keep delivering services even in the most challenging of times. We are looking for individuals who are keen to learn in the role, are interested in our work, and in helping us to make a difference to our customers by delivering exceptional public services in Cardiff.
As a Corporate Trainee, you will gain valuable experience working for Cardiff - the largest Council in Wales. Although we cannot guarantee that you will go on to secure a further role at the end of the initial contract, you will be supported and encouraged to take advantage of the many opportunities available within our organisation to help progress your career.
To be eligible to apply for this role, you must live in Cardiff. Please check your address falls within the boundaries of Cardiff here http://ishare.cardiff.gov.uk/mycardiff.aspx
Graduates are eligible to apply provided they live in Cardiff. If you do not live in Cardiff, you may be eligible to apply for our other advertised roles. Please check our other vacancies at www.cardiff.gov.uk/jobs
Additional information
This post is not suitable for post share.
This role is part-time at 18.5 hours per week, and temporary for 12 months. The advertised salary is based on a full-time role (37 hours per week).
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Safeguarding and Child Protection are key priorities for the Council. We aim to support children and vulnerable adults to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. Our services and schools are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of all children and vulnerable adults, and will take action to safeguard their well-being, and acknowledge that children and vulnerable adults have a right to protection. This is supported in the general ethos of the Council and all schools.
To be considered for shortlist and interview you must provide examples on your application of how you meet all Essential Criteria. You should also include examples to evidence your match to as many of the Desirable Criteria as possible, as we may also use these to shortlist where we receive a large volume of applications from candidates meeting all of the Essential Criteria. Include your examples in the relevant Supporting Information sections of the online application form. Do not upload a CV as this is unlikely to meet shortlisting requirements.
Please read the guidance on how to apply. We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
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