Job Description:
The Separated Child Foundation is seeking a youth worker to lead our weekly educational youth club in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. Delivered in partnership with Corner House Youth Project. Sessions take place on a Wednesday between 4.30pm-7.30pm throughout the year including school holidays.
The youth worker is responsible for planning and delivering activities for separated children aged up to 21 years old. Club Class offers interactive, educational group sessions on a specific topic interspersed with games and fun activities. The youth worker plans sessions through a combination of topics selected from The Separated Child Foundation’s framework along with subjects that the young people have expressed a desire in exploring together.
The sessions are supported by a youth worker from Corner House Youth Project and a social worker from Stockton council.
Salary: £20 per hour
Hours: Six hours a week (three hours in-person to deliver the session and three hours remotely for planning/prep/meetings)
Contract: Freelance
Location: Club Class is held in Stockton-on-Tees town centre. Planning / prep/ meetings can be done remotely.
Reports to: Programme Manager
Closing date: The deadline for applications is 12pm on Friday 31 July. Interviews will take place on Zoom in w/c 10 August 2026.
To find out more please download the full candidate pack: https://separatedchild.org/get-involved/work-for-us/
To apply, please email your CV, a supporting statement outlining your youth work experience and two referees.
About us: Established in 2007, The Separated Child Foundation offers practical, emotional and social support to separated children and young people in Britain who are asylum seekers or refugees - sometimes referred to as ‘unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASCs)’. The children we support arrive with nothing, having fled their homeland because of war, terror or persecution.
Equal Opportunities: The Separated Child Foundation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. In recruiting we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring to this role in terms of your education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds including former separated children.
Person Specification
Essential
Experience in planning and delivering youth-led interactive group workshops using best practice approaches
Experience of working with or supporting young people, preferably separated asylum seeking and refugee children and/or young people for whom English is not first language
Qualification in Youth Work or comparable subject, or equivalent in relevant experience
Demonstrable understanding of the needs of young people, preferably separated asylum seeking and refugee children
Demonstrable understanding of safeguarding and child protection principles and practice
Self-confidence and the ability to approach and engage with young people
Experience of working with different languages, cultures and social backgrounds
A competence in use of basic IT skills such as use of PowerPoint
Good organisation and planning skills, particularly related to youth work
A commitment to the work and values of The Separated Child Foundation
An understanding and commitment to equal opportunities in practice
Effective communication skills, and a good level, and understanding of spoken and written English
An understanding of the need to provide a quality service without compromising professional boundaries
Effective team player, able to work collaboratively and quickly develop and maintain a strong relationship with the existing team
An understanding of confidentiality, and an impartial and non-directive approach when working with clients
Must consent to and provide all relevant documentation for an enhanced disclosure by the DBS, a 'right to work' check and a Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) evaluation.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent, Freelance
Pay: £20.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
