The Separated Child Foundation is seeking a support youth worker to work alongside our lead youth worker at our weekly educational youth club in Bournemouth. Delivered in partnership with a local organisation, International Care Network (ICN), sessions take place on a weekly basis between 4.30pm-7.30pm throughout the year including school holidays.
The support youth worker will help deliver and facilitate educational and cultural activities to separated children (16-21 years old) in the context of an interactive youth club held weekly in partnership with the ICN in Bournemouth. Although the lead youth worker will prepare the materials, you will be supporting the delivery of the session alongside an ICN support worker during the actual Club Class session.
Salary: £16 per hour
Hours: Three hours a week (on a Wednesday)
Contract: Freelance
Location: Club Class is held in Bournemouth city centre.
Reports to: Programme Manager
Closing date: The deadline for applications is 9am on Friday 7th August 2026. Interviews will take place the week commencing 10th 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.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent, Freelance
Pay: £16.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
