Youth Leader (Crownhill Unit)

Sja's West; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join St John Ambulance as a Youth Team Volunteer in Plymouth and help young people from diverse backgrounds build confidence and teamwork skills. This role requires a commitment to community service and involvement in training opportunities to enhance youth support. A great chance to make a real impact in your community.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required; commitment to community and youth development necessary.
• Willingness to engage in training options.
• Ability to inspire and support young volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Work with young people to develop confidence and teamwork skills.
• Encourage participation and strive for personal growth.
• Support youth activities and facilitate their integration into the St John family.

Skills

Teamwork

Confidence Building

Self-Discipline

Job description

Volunteering with St John Ambulance strengthens communities. From youth support and education to wellbeing, events, and fundraising; your time makes a real impact.

Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.

You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service.It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.

You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.

Pursuing the role

We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!

If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.

When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.