Role Profile – Sessional Youth Worker – Media

Job title

Sessional Youth Worker –
Media

Salary:

£13.15 per hour. Saturday
evening premium £15.12 per
hour

Reporting to:

Music, Arts and Performance
Coordinator

Holidays:

33 days including bank
holidays (pro-rata)

Location:

Unitas Youth Zone, 76
Montrose Avenue, London,
HA8 0DT

Hours:

Up to 12 hours per week.
Evenings and weekends

The Person:

Do you  want to  use  your  artistic  and  creative  talents  to  make  the  lives of
young people better?  We are looking for someone who is passionate about
multimedia technologies and wants to share this with young people.  Are you
vibrant, creative, and committed to supporting young people and nurturing
talent and do you have a range of multimedia skills to offer young people?
Are you committed to your own personal growth and development with a
clear growth mindset? Do you have the ability to help young people gain the
confidence to use the equipment and software packages for themselves?

Key Relationships:

Delivery team, Youth Work managers, External Stakeholders, Young People
and Parents

Job Purpose:
The Arts, alongside sport and Youth Work is at the heart of the Unitas offer to young people.  The Arts
offer  is  wide  ranging  and  includes  visual  arts,  music,  media,  dance,  and  drama.   As  a  member  of
Multimedia  team,  you  will  be  part  of  group  of  youth  workers  who  specialise  in  photography,
videography and podcasting, and you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting
and  creative  multimedia  programme  that  will  be  challenging,  stimulating,  fun,  engaging  and
developmental.  You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a range of multimedia activities,
enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills.

Within the arts team we are looking for a range of talented youth arts workers to make up a team
with a diverse set of skills and expertise, who are also passionate about working with young people.
Ideally, you will have experience delivering one or more of the following multimedia arts:

  Photography, including shooting and editing
  Videography, including shooting and editing. We also run a film club
  Radio broadcashing and podcasting, including recording and editing
  We would also be interested in starting up a coding programme, if you had those skills

Unitas has a dedicated multimedia room with a range of high-quality equipment, as well as two Macs
and subscriptions to Adobe (including Photoshop), Canva and other relevant tools.

You will be involved in session delivery, planning, preparation, and work with young people closely.
You will be provided all the necessary equipment and training and will be afforded plentiful personal
development  opportunities.  You  will  be  someone  with  a  clear  ‘can  do’  approach,  committed  to  a

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growth mindset, eager to learn and willing to take risks, all for the benefit of supporting young people.
You will demonstrate our values through all you do and commit to always giving your best for young
people.

Context of the post:

Barnet  Youth  Zone,  named  “Unitas”  by local young people, was  the  second  Youth Zone  in London
opened by the national charity, OnSide, in the summer of 2019. Unitas, like all OnSide Youth Zones,
exists to give young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged, somewhere to go, something
to  do  and  someone  to  talk  to.  Each  Youth  Zone  is open  5-7  days  a  week,  all  year  round,  with  the
purpose of supporting young people to become happy, healthy, and successful adults.

Unitas Youth Zone is centrally located, dedicated to young people, and makes a bold statement about
the importance of giving young people high quality places to go in their leisure time.  Open 6 days a
week  including  school  holidays,  the  Youth  Zone’s vision  is  to  unite  young  people  to  fulfil  their  full
potential.  The state-of-the-art £6.5 million building provides young people with access to a range of
activities, all offering young people the opportunity to try new things, meet new friends and gain new
experiences.

Duties and Responsibilities - General

  Be a role model for young people and present a positive “can do” attitude
  Take personal responsibility for own actions
  Commit to a culture of continuous improvement
  Work within the performance framework of Unitas Youth Zone and OnSide
  Represent Unitas Youth Zone positively and effectively in all dealings with internal colleagues, and

external partners

  Comply with all policies and procedures, with reference to safeguarding, codes of conduct, health

and safety and equality and diversity to ensure all activities are accessible

  To be alert to issues of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring the welfare and safety of Youth
Zone members is promoted and safeguarded, and to report any child protection concerns to the
Designated Safeguarding Leads using the safeguarding policies, procedures, and practice (training
to be provided)

  To assist with any promotional activities and visits that take place at the Youth Zone
  To  actively  promote  the  Youth  Zone  and  positively  contribute  towards  increasing  Youth  Zone

membership

  To always adhere to Unitas Youth Zone policies, with reference to Health and Safety, Safeguarding

and Equal Opportunities

  To be willing to step in and step up, and not see the below set of duties and responsibilities as

exhaustive

Duties and Responsibilities – Detailed

  To work face-to-face with young people on session in the evenings/at the weekend (depending

on your shift pattern)

  To support planning and reviews when necessary
  To work directly with young people to develop their multimedia skills
  To deliver a mixture of one-to-one and group multimedia sessions

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  To work with young people along the whole spectrum of competence at multimedia – those just

giving it a go all the way to those seriously considering media as a career

  To be committed to monitoring and evaluation of the activities that you are running so the Youth

Zone can measure the impact of our work

  To directly deliver a high-quality programme of activity that is exciting, safe, varied, innovative,
developmental,  and  directly  responds  to  the  diverse  needs,  concerns,  and  interests  of  the
members

  To collaborate with other youth workers on session to produce cross-departmental projects (eg

with the dance studio to record shows)

  To have great energy and establish positive relationships with young people, the wider youth work

team, and visitors to the Youth Zone

  To  be  comfortable  in  other  spaces  in  the  Youth  Zone  such  as  the  recreation  area  and  on  the
welcoming team,  so  you  can  contribute  flexibly as  per the  needs  of the  young  people  and  the
session

  To respond to the needs of young people through activities in the multimedia room
  To support and motivate volunteers working in the multimedia room
  To  work  flexibly  to  ensure  the  needs  of  the  members  are  met,  including  disadvantaged  young

people and those with disabilities or additional needs

  To ensure that the members maintain a high standard of behaviour and discipline during sessions

by making the multimedia room a hub of activity and fun

  To ensure the participation of young people in activities and ensure that their ideas contribute

fully in the delivery of activities in a safe way

  To assist with any promotional activities and visits that take place at the Youth Zone
  To  actively  promote  the  Youth  Zone  and  positively  contribute  towards  increasing  Youth  Zone

membership

  To always promote and safeguard the welfare of young people
  To enthuse others, including staff, volunteers, and young people, making the environment fun and

the place young people want to see

  To be an active member of the team and operate in line with the values and principles of Unitas

Youth Zone

  To carry out any other reasonable duties as requested by management

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Person Specification

Selection Criteria

Experience
Face to face activity delivery with young people both in groups and
individually
Experience of delivering a range of multimedia activities to young people
Experience of supporting young people who are disaffected, underachieving
and / or have social / emotional barriers to participation
Experience of working in a team and alongside volunteers
Organising a programme of youth work activities
Experience of working with challenging young people
Experience of working with young people with additional needs and
disabilities
Qualifications
Level 2 Youth Work qualification
Relevant multimedia qualification(s)
Skills
Ability to deliver a high-quality multimedia programme with young people
who face social exclusion, disadvantage and disaffection and manage such a
group
Ability to develop good professional relationships with young people and
adults
Ability to work with young people to enable the development of their social
education by providing activity programmes, services and facilities that are
fun
Ability to be enthused by young people and others
Ability to coach, encourage, motivate, and provide reliable support to young
people
Ability to dynamic risk access
Ability to plan and liaise with other professional organisations
Knowledge
Understanding of issues affecting young people’s lives
Health and safety, diversity awareness and safeguarding best practice
Basic knowledge of arts pathways
Special Requirements
A willingness to work unsociable hours
Enhanced DBS clearance and a commitment to safeguarding children

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Unitas Youth Zone are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and
vulnerable  groups.  This  post is  subject  to an  enhanced  DBS check.  The  strength of  the  OnSide Network  of
Youth Zone is the diversity of its people, we place huge value on different people doing things in different
ways and we  welcome applications  from  what  might  be  considered  non-traditional backgrounds.  The  one
thing we all have in common is our desire to raise the aspirations of young people across the country. We are
an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race,
colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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