WEST Youth Zone, based in Hammersmith & Fulham, offers a chance to make a real difference in the lives of thousands of young people. If you have the energy, drive and enthusiasm to be part of our exciting youth work coupled with the skills that our roles require, please apply to be part of our team TODAY!
The strength of WEST Youth Zone comes from the diversity of our people. We place huge value on different people doing things in different ways and we welcome applications from what might be considered non-traditional backgrounds. The one thing we all have in common is our desire to raise the aspirations of young people in West London.
WEST Youth Zone is a proud disability committed employer and an accredited living wage employer.
Sessional Receptionist
- Salary: £13.85 per hour
- Hours: Between 5.5 - 11 Hours
- Location: WEST Youth Zone, W12 7TF
Reception is the first point of contact for Youth Zone members, their parents, visitors, and suppliers. WEST’s receptionist is responsible for greeting and welcoming every young person as they arrive and ensuring they leave safely. The key purpose of the role is to ensure the young people enter the session smoothly, processing new members, directing phone calls and enquiries, maintaining the membership database efficiently and carrying out regular communication. The post holder will be part of a welcoming and professional team who are also positive about young people and will ensure the Youth Zone will function to its maximum potential. The ideal candidate will be someone with a clear ‘can do’ approach, committed to a growth mindset, eager tolerant all for the benefit of supporting young people. You will demonstrate our Values through all you do and will commit to giving your best every session for young people
Sports Youth Worker
- Salary: London Living Wage
- Hours: Up to 18 hours per week
- Location: WEST Youth Zone, W12 7TF
Ideally, you will have experience delivering the following:
- Coaching, facilitating and developing young people through a variation of sports
- Running a variety of competitions internally and/or externally
- Managing our Sports Hall or Multi Use Games Area
- Working with WEST Partners to deliver positive outcomes for young people
Digital Media Youth Worker
- Salary: London Living Wage
- Hours: Up to 20 hours per week
- Location: WEST Youth Zone, W12 7TF
The arts offer at WEST is wide-ranging and includes visual arts, music, media, dance and drama. As a member of the Arts Team, you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and creative arts programme that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single, or range of arts activities, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills. Within the arts team, we are looking for a range of talented arts youth workers with a diverse set of skills and expertise, who are also passionate about working with young people.
Inclusion Coordinator
- Salary: £31,200
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week (inc. evenings and weekends)
- Location: WEST Youth Zone, W12 7TF
Our Inclusion Coordinator will design and deliver creative arts activities for young people, overseeing the programmes for the Sensory Room and Duty Management of our Sunday Beyond Session. As well as this, they will provide line management support, coaching and development for arts sessional workers in their areas. This role requires a minimum of 55% of working hours spent face to face with young people.