Sessional Youth Worker (Art)
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £12.60 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2025 |
| Location: | M12 5PX |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | HideOut Youth Zone |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About the role:
The Arts, alongside sport and youth work, is at the heart of HideOut’s offer to young people. The Arts offer is wide ranging and includes visual arts, music, media, dance and drama. As a member of the Arts Team you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and creative arts programme that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single or range of arts activities, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills.
Within the Arts team we are looking for a range of talented youth arts workers to make up a team with a diverse set of skills and expertise, who are also passionate about working with young people. Ideally, you will have experience delivering one or more of the following arts:
Visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, set design, etc)
Photography
Textiles
Fashion
Costume Design
About EMPOWER:
Empower Youth Zones is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton (East Manchester) which opened in 2020, and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, which opened to young people in June 2025. HideOut and Salford Youth Zone provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to talk to.
Youth Zones are purpose-built spaces fizzing with energy and crammed with incredible facilities. They are staffed by skilled and dedicated Youth Workers who truly believe in young people – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence and ambition to go for it. This is life-changing support that helps tens of thousands of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive.
HideOut and Salford Youth Zone are part of a national and growing network of Onside Youth Zones. There are currently 15 active Onside Youth Zones across the UK with 20 due to be open by 2025.
The Arts, alongside sport and youth work, is at the heart of HideOut’s offer to young people. The Arts offer is wide ranging and includes visual arts, music, media, dance and drama. As a member of the Arts Team you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and creative arts programme that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single or range of arts activities, enabling young people to explore their creativity and grow their skills.
Within the Arts team we are looking for a range of talented youth arts workers to make up a team with a diverse set of skills and expertise, who are also passionate about working with young people. Ideally, you will have experience delivering one or more of the following arts:
Visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, set design, etc)
Photography
Textiles
Fashion
Costume Design
About EMPOWER:
Empower Youth Zones is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton (East Manchester) which opened in 2020, and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, which opened to young people in June 2025. HideOut and Salford Youth Zone provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to talk to.
Youth Zones are purpose-built spaces fizzing with energy and crammed with incredible facilities. They are staffed by skilled and dedicated Youth Workers who truly believe in young people – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence and ambition to go for it. This is life-changing support that helps tens of thousands of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive.
HideOut and Salford Youth Zone are part of a national and growing network of Onside Youth Zones. There are currently 15 active Onside Youth Zones across the UK with 20 due to be open by 2025.