Senior Youth Engagement Officer

This role has a starting salary of £35,730 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.

We are excited to be hiring a new Senior Youth Engagement Officer to join our fantastic Surrey Fire and Resue Service. The role is contractually based at Service Headquarters, Reigate, with expectation and opportunity for agile working, including working from a variety of locations, such as other SCC offices, fire stations or from home.

Do you have experience of working in youth work settings with the ability or potential to lead a small team delivering and developing youth engagement programmes across Surrey? If so, have you thought about using these skills and experience, and learning new ones, in a Fire Service setting? If not, here's why you could

Rewards and Benefits

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the RoleAt Surrey Fire and Rescue Service we are putting prevention at the heart of our Service, and we are looking for a Senior Youth Engagement Officer who is ready for the challenge of positively engaging with young people in our communities who need more support and opportunities; helping identified young people to improve their personal resilience and achievement through practical interventions and supporting them to achieve a qualification and improve their futures.

The Senior Youth Engagement Officer role is key to co-ordinating and delivering our current Youth Engagement Scheme (YES); leading a team in engaging with young people at risk of exclusion from school, supporting them to achieve personal resilience goals through a 5-day programme of fire service inspired activities. You will also support other managers in the wider team and service in the delivery of Firewise through working with children that set fires.

The role is an opportunity to both deliver and further develop our existing youth engagement scheme as well as to collaborate on the development, delivery and evaluation of new youth engagement offers including RISE (Resilience, Inspire, Skills, Empower) in line with the NFCC's Early Intervention framework and the Prince's Trust requirements. You will ensure that children and young people are Safeguarded at all times, following and implementing Service Safeguarding and Health and Safety policies and practices, alongside promoting and delivering youth work practice that is pro-social, restorative, trauma informed, is strengths based and develops protective factors.

Shortlisting CriteriaTo be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:

• Ability to co-ordinate people from a variety of teams, fostering positive relationships with team members
• Ability to build rapport with young people and their families as well as with Service managers, personnel, and with partner agencies in Surrey especially referrers
• A suitable youth work or teaching qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience, know how children and young people learn and have an awareness of protective factors, trauma informed, restorative and pro-social practices
• Experience of co-ordinating people, delivering activities to young people and evaluating the outcomes or can evidence the potential to do so
• Excellent communications skills, verbal and written
• Ability to use information technology effectively, including databases, spreadsheets and Microsoft Office 365
• For more information please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application.

On appointment, you will receive a full induction to the organisation and role and have access to regular supervision and continuous professional development (CPD). You will be provided with a Service laptop and mobile phone to allow for flexible and agile working.If you think you could be the person we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 13/10/2024 with interviews to follow.

An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's Barred List checks will be required for this role. Our CommitmentSurrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applicants where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.