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Progression Routes Officer

Employer
Leap Confronting Conflict
Location
Head Office, Finsbury Park, London
Salary
£24,000 - £31,000 per annum
Closing date
30 Sep 2019

Job Details

Leap works with young people, giving them the skills to manage conflict in their own lives, reduce violence in their communities and help lead our society.

Progression Routes role supports young people from Improving Prospects, Leadership and Enterprise and Power UP! programmes at Leap. It provides education, employment and personal development support to young people to achieve their goals. The role offers one to one support, group sessions and signposting into opportunities.

This role consists of creating and managing progression routes for young people who have graduated from Leap’s training programmes, as well as building internal opportunities to volunteering and gain work experience. Young people will complete training from our programmes mentioned above and from this will have the option to continue gaining support from our progressions officer in identifying their next step. Next steps may involve building soft skills to then successfully sustain getting back into education/employment/further training or even exposure to different vocational paths.

A major part of this role will be building relationships and networks with partners who are best placed in offering quality opportunities for young people who are in need of specific outcomes.

Benefits: 

  • A generous pension scheme with up to 8% employer contribution
  • Flexible working with core hours between 10am – 4pm, Mon-Fri
  • 25 days leave
  • Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme available
  • Leap is conveniently located within a short walk from Finsbury Park tube and mainline railway station.

You will be required to work at times from Leap’s South London Office in Camberwell, SE5 and at various external sites undertaking activities with young people.

How to apply: 

For more information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing date for applications: 5pm Monday 30th September 2019

Ex-offenders are invited and encouraged to apply.

Leap Confronting Conflict are a London Living Wage Employer. 

Company

Leap Confronting Conflict is a national youth charity that works directly with young people struggling with conflict and also trains the adult professionals working with them. Based in London, Leap has 13 employees and 40 volunteers. It was founded in 1987 and has an annual income of around £1 million.

Leap offers a range of programmes that support young people to manage conflict in their lives. These include self-reflective group work, pastoral care outside of formal training and peer mediation. These programmes are delivered by an experienced team of trainers. Improving Prospects is Leap’s flagship community-based programme designed to give young people, aged 16-21, an insight into the causes and consequences of conflict. Two short courses are offered: Leadership and Choice to Change.

Leap supports young people’s engagement and progression by providing one-to-one input before, during and after training. On completion of the programme, young people may decide to become a Leap trainer, volunteer at Leap or with another organisation, return to education or secure employment.

The charity also offers training for adult practitioners. Training is intended to help them develop the skills and tools needed to better respond to young people at risk of violence, offending behaviour and also to those struggling with low self-esteem and aspirations.

Leap also works in partnership with schools, pupil referral units, youth offending services, voluntary sector organisations and local councils, among other organisations. It works with each organisation to design a programme that will best respond to its needs. Programmes support young people to gain understanding of themselves and professionals to develop their confidence and skills. Leap also offers consultancy services, supporting a range of organisations to gain a greater understanding of the way they manage conflict, enabling them to bring about lasting culture change.

Leap also runs projects on specific issues. In 2016, the charity launched a three year ‘Leadership and Enterprise’ project in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. The aim is to work with other organisations in the area to build relationship with young people either in, or at risk of being in, gangs. Another current project, ‘Peaceful Prisons’, is aimed at developing intervention to reduce violence in prisons. The three year project combines Leap's 20 years of experience in training prisoners and prison staff with the latest academic research on prison violence and the charity’s own research.

Leap’s work is delivered by internal staff, freelance trainers and volunteers. Young people are represented at every level of the charity - as trustees, staff, trainers and volunteers.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7561 3700
Location
Wells House (Unit 7),
5-7 Wells Terrace,
Finsbury Park,
London
N4 3JU
United Kingdom

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