I thought the best way to blog about what its like to work as a Youth Worker was to run through my day in an average week. I hope you find it interesting and learn a bit more about what we Youth Workers do! :)
10am- Mondays is one of my longest days of the week, I start by planning my week and working out my hours/days before going into a meeting with my colleagues. In this meeting we talk a lot about the behind the scenes work such as covering sickness, completion of paperwork deadlines. Sometime we have guest speakers in talking about a new project happening in the area that our young people may be interested in or sometimes asking us to help with research and consultation.
12pm-Lunch time and time to start catching up on some of my e-mails, as well as checking all the staff have completed paperwork to make sure they are paid.
1pm- Job Club. We run this with another service who come in and help young people who are out of work, not in training or education to look at their options. They know quite a bit about local job and also can help them clear up any benefit problems they might have had. It helps to have it in our centre as some young people don't want to travel all the way into town or aren't comfortable doing it.
3pm- Health Drop in. We work on this with nurses who can help give young people advice on lots of different subjects, such as stopping smoking, sexual health and lots of other issues. We also do C-card which is where we give out condoms to young people who have shown they can meet certain criteria and know what they are doing by thinking about becoming sexually active.
4pm-I now have a couple of hours to catch up on some more of the behind the scenes work!! E-mails, finish researching ideas for tomorrows party, make posters. pay graffiti artist for half term workshop, mileage, take a phone call from reception as a young person turned up at other centres to see what is on this week, catch up on accounts, print off worksheets for project night and grab some tea!! few!
7pm-Welcome young people for our project night. We started last week to look at alcohol and how it affects your body. I did a lot of talking but didn't go too bad and we got through a lot of the project. We also got chance to chat about the Pre-bonfire Party tomorrow night which is a special event (diversionary activity)
9:30pm- The centre is all packed up, contacted the dance teacher for tomorrow and grabbed my to do list!! With 2 big events on at the same time tomorrow, I've lots to organise through the day to make sure everything is in place.
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