Youth Outreach Worker

Youth Outreach Worker

Purpose: As a Youth Outreach Worker, you will help young people to understand different crime topics and break down the barriers to reporting crime. This will be done through the delivery of workshops in schools and other youth settings. The Youth Outreach Worker will also build partnerships locally with other organisations, to provide a coordinated response to youth crime and exploitation across Kent.

Reports to: Regional Manager

Location: Kent – remote with frequent travel

Contract: 2-years

Salary: £27,365 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours – full time, fixed term contract

DBS required: Yes

Responsibilities

Fearless is the youth brand of Crimestoppers, offering young people access to non-judgemental information and advice about crime and criminality. The work of Fearless is focused on helping young people make informed decisions about reporting crime.

• To deliver our Fearless and Bystander Approach programme for young people in Secondary Schools and youth settings across Kent and for the professionals working with those young people.
  • Facilitating a bespoke Fearless workshop ensuring the workshop links to the prevention needs of young people within Kent and surrounding areas.
• To build partnerships locally with Secondary schools/academies, Pupil Referral Units (PRU), youth agencies, Police, Local Authorities and other organisations. Implement a robust evaluation method, including compiling statistics of the workshops and partnership work for internal and external reports.
• Look for ongoing opportunities to raise the awareness of the Fearless service direct to young people and the professionals working with them.
• To work with the Regional Manager and Development Team to secure continued funding opportunities.
• To represent the Fearless team at events. Source opportunities to engage with young people outside of the school environment e.g., creation of materials for youth clubs/workers, social media campaigns etc. Support Fearless Head Office Team to develop content for Fearless social media platforms.
• To create and build relationships to deliver activities in term time and school holidays.