Youth Worker - Helsingin kaupunki - Helsinki, Finland

We are looking for a youth worker for the Southeast youth work unit in a permanent employment relationship. As a youth worker, you will work mainly in the Roihuvuori area in different youth facilities and occasionally at the Hertsa youth center, where we also serve lower secondary school-aged residents of Roihuvuori. In the unit, we work together with all the youth of the Kaakko area, so the Laajasalo youth center and the leisure activity environments of the area's youth will also become familiar to you and you will work in them. Roihuvuori youth center is a traditional youth center where open youth center activities are organized. Kulttuurilabra, located in Roihuvuori, focuses on enabling the self-directed activities of young people. At Kulttuurilabra, young people are offered opportunities to participate in guided cultural groups and content as well as support for creating their own project. As a youth worker, you would work in the open activities of Kulttuurilabra together with a cultural youth worker. An inclusive approach and encouraging young people to influence and self-directed activity are emphasized in the work. As a youth worker, you create conditions for the agency of young people. You provide support to young people in their various life situations and enable joining communities that are meaningful to them. You act in a youth-oriented manner and support them as part of a group and as individuals. As a youth worker, you ensure that young people have space and opportunities for fun activities and self-expression in their own area as well as opportunities to influence their own immediate environment. You react, as far as possible, together with young people, colleagues and partners to phenomena concerning young people. You build a relationship of trust with young people through functionality and present encounters. The eligibility requirement for the task is a suitable degree, for example, a vocational qualification of youth and leisure instructor or a vocational qualification in education and guidance. We require previous experience in youth work. To succeed, you need the following skills and/or expertise: - plan and implement activities together with young people - promote the influence opportunities and the realization of participation of young people - cooperate with other operators in the area - communicate about activities yourself and together with young people - meet both young people and adults professionally - empathy, reflection and constructive interaction also in challenging interaction situations - ability to see art and expression as an activity that enables the growth and participation of young people We are looking for a youth worker for the position who has a heart in working with young people, a desire to do high-quality youth work and passion to develop their own activities, the work community and the unit's activities to be as accessible and youth-oriented as possible. The work is mainly evening and weekend work and is also done by deploying to the area. Performing the task requires that the person selected must submit a criminal record extract in accordance with Section 6, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Records Act and in addition a certificate regarding a drug test to the employer for inspection before accepting the employment relationship. We offer you comprehensive City of Helsinki personnel benefits, such as travel benefits as well as cultural and sports benefits! Leave your application through our recruitment system.