Training & Youth Participation Officer - #143673

Salary: £32,000 (£19,200 pro rata) – permanent role

Work Pattern: 0.6FTE – 22.5 hours per week 

Location: Remote with frequent travel and overnight stays

Responsible to: Training, Development & Participation Manager

Responsible for: None

The purpose of this role is increase awareness of safeguarding and youth-centred practice across the transport industry, ensuring the safeguarding of children and young people using public transport.

This will be achieved by:

• Delivery of face to face and online training to various stakeholders and groups within the transport community
• Delivery of consultancy activities relating to safeguarding and provision of services to vulnerable children, young people and adults.
• Engagement with partners and community members in a range of settings e.g stations, public engagement events, educational settings and as part of multi-agency safeguarding action groups
• Engagement and involvement with young people as part of our national Youth Participation programme to increase young people’s voice and youth-centred practice.

All of the above will be underpinned by Railway Children’s youth participation strategy and you will be a key figure in supporting and advocating for this work to ensure the voices of young people are heard and actioned.