What will the role look like?
Barca Leeds is seeking a motivated and passionate Well Wave Youth Worker to deliver specialist sexual health and wellbeing support for young people aged 13-24 years across the city. Working as part of a dedicated Well Wave team, the postholder will focus on engaging and supporting those young people who are most at risk, least well-supported, marginalised or seldom seen by traditional services
The role will be dedicated solely to delivering and promoting Well Wave services and will not be restricted by fixed locations or caseloads. The successful candidate will develop and deliver flexible, accessible, trauma-informed and culturally responsive outreach in communities throughout the city, ensuring that young people can access support in places where they feel safe, welcome and comfortable.
The role will involve building trusted relationships, delivering sexual health information and support, promoting positive wellbeing, reducing health inequalities, and enabling young people to access the services they need to achieve positive outcomes.
The post holder must be able to efficiently and reliably travel to multiple locations across Leeds each day and therefore access to own vehicle or own method of transport would be advantageous.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) generated answers is discouraged. The use of AI may affect the depth and understanding that is required, to demonstrate successful answers to experience and knowledge based questions, in our shortlisting process. Barca-Leeds uses Humans to shortlist for interview.
Barca-Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. It is the organisation’s policy to require the successful applicant to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check at a level appropriate to the role, before appointment is confirmed. The disclosure of a criminal conviction will not necessarily exclude candidates from appointment.
Please Note- To apply, you must have the right to work in the UK. We are currently unable to accept applications from individuals requiring a Skilled Worker Visa.
Barca-Leeds is a community based charity, a registered company limited by guarantee. We are an organisation that delivers transformational projects for adults, children, young people and families in Leeds, connecting them with services that respond to the needs of each individual.
We work with a range of partner organisations, both voluntary and statutory, to reduce social isolation and support people in developing their own initiatives.
We help people overcome the barriers they face in fulfilling their potential by delivering advice, support and guidance at a community and individual level. This includes people who may have complex needs and have been excluded from other services as a result.
We support people struggling with housing issues, finances, physical and mental health problems. Our services are also geared towards children, young people and adults affected by domestic abuse, drug and alcohol issues, as well as people struggling with employment or education.
At a strategic level we seek to influence local, national and international policy development.
Our Vision is 'A Fair Society'. This means that our ultimate purpose is to make a long term sustainable difference by empowering people to achieve independent and fulfilling lives. We take the learning and experiences of the people we work with and share their stories with commissioners and policymakers, in order to influence and shape future changes in policy and services.
Our mission is to care, listen and respond to the needs of people in our communities, and work with them to deliver outstanding services to improve their wellbeing.
