Job Details:
Detached Youth Workers

Job Description

Detached Youth Worker

4 hours a week, optional additional hours available

£13.68 per hour (Full time starting salary equivalent £24,900, £2,845 pro rata)

Senior Detached Youth Worker

5 hours a week, optional additional hours available

£14.53 per hour (Full time starting salary equivalent £26,469, £3,778 pro rata)

Street based roles in Harpurhey and Moston

Do you have the right mix of enthusiasm and passion for engaging with young people and a commitment to making a real difference? 

Our street based youth workers engage young people aged 11 -19 within the community to building trusting relationships, encourage positive activities and choices, and reduce anti-social or harmful behaviour through engagement and informal education.

The successful candidates will be responsible for building a rapport with young people whom are/at risk of being vulnerable for a variety of reasons. They will promote local services/organisations/charities, which can be utilised by young people to encourage services are accessed.  They will also offer social action opportunities, to encourage young people to learn new skills and build confidence.

The roles are based in North Manchester, engaging young people in Moston and Harpurhey. and will involve working afternoons and evenings.

Please note CVs will not be considered as part of your application for this position.

Application and Demographic forms are available on the website (Work for Us | Manchester Young Lives) and must be returned either via email to [email protected] or by post to Manchester Young Lives, The Addy Young People’s Centre, Woodhouse Lane, Wythenshawe, M22 9TF.

Please ensure you complete the final section of the application from, giving information as to how you meet the person specification.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The closing date for completed application forms is midnight Wednesday the 8^th of May 2024.