For as long as young people are homeless and unsafe in London, we’ll be on a mission to give their potential a home.
New Horizon Youth Centre, based in Camden, is a youth homelessness charity. We work with young people aged 16-24 who are facing homelessness or are unsafe in the capital. Our work is organised under 4 key service areas: Housing, Safety, Lifeskills and Health. We deliver services through our day centre in Kings Cross, remotely over the phone or online, and out in the community across London.
We have three brilliant volunteering opportunities for students who are interested in working with young people experiencing homelessness.
To apply for any of these roles, please send your CV to [email protected] and a short covering letter (you don't need to write a lot!). You can find more information and job packs on our website - www.nhyouthcentre.org.uk/jobs.
Volunteer Sports Assistant
Sports at New Horizon Youth Centre is our busiest youth work programme. We run basketball, boxing and football sessions across the week for young people experiencing homelessness to attend.
We're looking for a Volunteer Sports Assistant to join us and help deliver our sessions.
We're really keen to hear from students who already have coaching qualifications in basketball, yoga, boxing or football or just love the Sport and have the energy and passion to share this with other young people.
Typical responsibilities might include:
1. Assisting the coaches and youth workers, helping to set up and tidy away sports equipment at the beginning and end of each session.
2. Supporting young people to attend the session and engage, motivating and inspiring young people to feel comfortable and passionate, or to try something new.
3. Participating in the sport, leading by example and role modelling skills and engagement.
4. Helping to keep a list of attendees for each session.
5. Provide knowledge and insight about wellbeing and how sport affects physical and mental health
6. Offering general support, guidance and assistance to young people throughout the session.
7. If you have a coaching qualification in basketball, football, yoga or boxing, or another sport, it would be great if you can run sessions, plan activities or lead warm ups/cool downs.
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
For young people accessing our day centre, our free lunch is often the most important meal of the day. We are looking for a regular volunteer to support our Chef with preparing and serving a delicious hot lunch and keeping our kitchen clean and tidy.
If you have experience working or volunteering in a kitchen environment and are passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, we would love to hear from you!
The Volunteer Kitchen Assistant is part of the NHYC Youth Work Team. New Horizon Youth Centre runs a busy day centre from Monday to Friday. We serve a hot, delicious and nutritious lunch for young people and staff every day. As a Volunteer Kitchen Assistant, you’ll be helping our Chef with the day-to-day running of our kitchen including food preparation, cleaning and supporting the Chef to ensure high standards of safety and food hygiene. Your volunteer responsibilities will include:
1. Working alongside the NHYC Chef on the daily preparation of up to 100 nutritionally balanced vegetarian and meat dishes.
2. Helping to keep the kitchen area clean, making sure equipment is in good working order and reporting any faults or repairs to the NHYC chef.
3. Following procedures relating to daily kitchen cleaning schedule and ensuring strict adherence to food hygiene regulations, cleanliness, kitchen safety and accurate record keeping (HACCP).
4. Supporting the Chef with serving lunches to up to 100 young people, staff and volunteers.
5. Engaging with young people at lunch and demonstrating patience and compassion with young people when needed.
6. Being creative! Supporting NHYC with meal ideas when required.
7. Assisting with kitchen closedown including washing up, loading/unloading the dishwasher, labelling food and cleaning and tidying kitchen ready for the next day.
8. Following New Horizon Youth Centre’s Health and Safety and Safeguarding policies, taking instructions from the daily duty manager when required.
9. Helping to keep the kitchen area safe and free from hazards.
Volunteer ESOL Tutor
We are looking for a volunteer to deliver weekly English conversation classes on a range of topics to young people with a range of abilities. If you have experience teaching spoken English to groups and are passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, we would love to hear from you!
Our Volunteer ESOL Tutor is part of the NHYC Youth Work Team. New Horizon provides a range of Youth Work opportunities for young people experiencing homelessness. As part of this, we aim to deliver a weekly group conversation class for
young people looking to improve their spoken English. This role will involve delivering a weekly group English conversation class on a range of topics to young people with a range of abilities. Responsibilities include:
1. Working alongside the Jobs, Education and Training (JET) team to a deliver themed English conversation class on a range of relevant practical topics.
2. Tailoring sessions to a range of abilities, ensuring they are engaging, inclusive and accessible to all.
3. Planning creative, exciting and relevant sessions for young people attending.
4. Engaging young people from a range of backgrounds and levels of spoken
English to participate in sessions and develop their oral communication skills and confidence.
5. Facilitating peer-support and learning.
6. Ensuring that any Health and Safety or safeguarding issues are addressed as a priority.
7. Communicating effectively with colleagues from across the organisation to ensure the smooth running of ESOL delivery.