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Youth and Community Workers

Youth and community workers provide support to individuals or groups of individuals through a range of activities or services that aim to encourage participation in social and community life and promote personal and social development

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 8,129
£ 22,833
£ 36,168

New workers start around £8,129. Normal pay is £22,833 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £36,168.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 73,117 vacancies for this type of job

1.46%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Helps set up credit unions, encourages parents to establish playgroups, works with other groups to find solutions to shared concerns or problems.

  • Advises individuals with particular needs or problems through informal discussion, individual counselling or formal group discussion.

  • Liaises and supports voluntary workers running groups in village halls, churches, mosques and other places of worship.

  • Undertakes the day-to-day running of community centres and supervises the activities of part-time and voluntary workers.

  • Organises social, recreational and educational activities in local community and youth groups.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Mental Health

  • Working With Children

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Child Protection

  • Social Work

  • Risk Analysis

  • Psychology

  • Life Skills Development

  • Community Development

  • Personal Care

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Teaching

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Resilience

  • Self-Motivation

  • Enthusiasm

  • Mentorship

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Leadership

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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