Job Overview:

The Programme Manager is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, particularly providers who deliver youth engagement and development programs. This role involves supporting providers, ensuring their needs are met, and providing exceptional service to foster long-term loyalty. The Programme Manager will oversee the implementation of engagement plans and a variety of youth development programs, monitor outputs and outcomes, and facilitate collaborations with providers to enhance opportunities for young people, especially from South Asian communities.

Purpose of Post
The aim of the programme is to reduce risk to young people of gang affiliation and risk of criminal exploitation. Therefore a good understanding of the push and pull factors around grooming is key. The youth worker will focus on building self-worth, self-value, self-esteem and creating safe spaces and places with peers. The youth work training for the young people will provide a targeted intervention as well as a diversion with an aim to cease offending or reoffending. The group youth sessions will also explore culture to reduce racial barriers, increase community cohesion and increase tolerance of different cultures.

Duties
1. To make contact with young people at risk of gang activity including violence and recruit onto the programme
2. To publicise and promote the project through networking, developing partnerships with a wide range of agencies and establish referral processes
3. To work in partnership with Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police including the Youth Offending Service to identify young people at risk of gang involvement.
4. To recruit volunteers and train them to become peer mentors on the programme
5. To work alongside the Youth Project Coordinator to develop programmes focusing on challenging young people’s ideas of identity and gang identity and develop issue based workshops that break down racial barriers.
6. To develop and deliver mentoring, coaching and skills development activities within weekly activities.
7. To recruit volunteers and train them up as mentors to deliver confidence building techniques to young people
8. To develop programmes that develops resilience and confidence in young people to avoid and challenge radicalisation
9. To attend regular supervision, team meetings and training and maintain own professional practice, identifying own training and development needs
10. To develop monitoring and evaluation processes and maintain appropriate records
11. To work with the manager in completing reports to the funder
12. To undertake any other appropriate duties that are relevant to the project and that may be required by Hamara

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding professional to teach a KS1 curriculum or KS2 English, Maths or Science curriculum at our out of school provision so that it continues to provide support in core area of underachievement in the BME community where our supplementary school is situated.

To work professionally within a team of staff and volunteers in order to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all students.

The successful candidate will have excellent inter-personal skills and a relentless focus on strategies to sustain the highest quality of teaching and learning.

Applicants should be practitioners who have some classroom experience and who have already demonstrated effective team working characteristics. The successful candidate will work as part of and be supported by an experienced team of dedicated professionals, each committed to working together to benefit students and their families.

To support and enable clients to be independent whilst promoting dignity and choice.

Delivering related support, social and prompting personal care to the client, ensuring that a person centred approach is used so that the clients can maximise their independence. Support Workers will support the client by promoting the use of leisure and educational facilities and employment and volunteering activities in the local community.

The role will involve producing support plans and keeping up to date with the client’s family and care provider e.g. Leeds City Council. Accurate record keeping will be essential.

To support and enable clients to be independent whilst promoting dignity and choice.

Delivering related support, social and prompting personal care to the client, ensuring that a person centred approach is used so that the clients can maximise their independence. Support Workers will support the client by promoting the use of leisure and educational facilities and employment and volunteering activities in the local community.

The role will involve producing support plans and keeping up to date with the client’s family and care provider e.g. Leeds City Council. Accurate record keeping will be essential.