Join a team making a real impact
At Unitas, every role helps young people unlock their potential. If you’re passionate about making a real difference and want to be part of a team that’s caring, energetic and ambitious for our community, explore our current vacancies below.
Full-time roles at Unitas Youth Zone are either permanent or fixed term contracts of 40 hours per week and are salaried. Part-time roles are for fewer hours per week and are also salaried. Sessional roles are paid by the hour according to which shifts are worked. For youth work sessional roles, these are mostly in the evenings and at the weekends.
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Unitas Youth Zone was named Charity of the Year at The Barnet Group Community Awards 2024
We believe great youth work starts with well supported staff, so we offer benefits that reflect that
What is a sessional?
- Sessional staff are workers paid by the hour, rather than on a salaried or fixed-contract basis
- These roles are part-time and often involve working shifts — especially evenings and weekends, when most youth-work sessions occur
- There are many types of sessional roles: for example, youth workers for recreational activities (“Rec” area), sports coaches, climbing instructors, media or arts workers, and more, depending on your skills and interests
- The nature of the work is to run or support the delivery of activities — games, sports, arts, mentoring, outreach, etc. — for young people using the Youth Zone
Our staff benefits (salaried and sessional)
- Unitas pays at least the London Living Wage — so staff are earning a wage considered acceptable for living costs in London
- After a year of employment, staff qualify for enhanced sick pay
- After two years, there’s enhanced maternity pay available for those eligible
- In addition to standard annual leave, staff receive an extra paid “wellbeing day” each year
- Staff have free access to the on-site gym
- During sessions, staff can get a hot meal for just £1
- The organisation also runs regular staff socials — so there’s a social and community aspect to working at Unitas
Senior Youth Worker - Employability
Contract: Salaried
Location: 76 Montrose Avenue, Edgware HA8 0DT
Salary: £31,000 - £33,000 per annum depending on experience. One year fixed term contract
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week, including regular evening and weekend work
This is an exciting opportunity to lead an employability and enterprise programme supporting young people to explore their aspirations and progress into employment, education, training, volunteering or enterprise.
Working directly with young people aged 13 to 19, and up to 25 for those with additional needs, you will create practical and engaging opportunities that help them understand their options, develop workplace skills and gain the confidence to take their next steps. This is a funded fixed term contract for one year, we which we aim to extend if we are successful in renewing funding.
Sessional Youth Worker - Health and Wellbeing
Contract: Sessional
Location: Unitas, Barnet Youth Zone | 76 Montrose Avenue | Edgware | London | HA8 0DT
Salary: £14.80 per hour London Living Wage | £16.00 per hour for Saturday evening shifts per hour.
Hours: Up to 12 hours a week - Tuesday PM and Saturday PM
This is an exciting opportunity to support young people through engaging health, wellbeing, mentoring, hair and beauty focused activities within a youth setting. You will help create a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment where young people can build confidence, develop skills and access positive support.
The role will involve working directly with young people during evening and weekend sessions, delivering fun and educational activities while helping to build strong, trusted relationships.
Sessional Youth Worker – Training Kitchen
Contract: Sessional
Location: Unitas Youth Zone, 76 Montrose Avenue, Edgware, HA8 0DT
Salary: £14.80 per hour London Living Wage | £16.00 per hour for Saturday evening shifts
Hours: Up to 10 hours per week. Tuesday PM and Friday PM
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your culinary skills with meaningful youth work in a vibrant community setting. Working within a dedicated training kitchen, you will support young people to develop cooking skills, confidence and healthy living habits through fun, engaging and inclusive sessions.
You will work with young people of all abilities, from beginners through to those considering catering or hospitality careers, helping to create a positive and supportive environment where everyone can learn and thrive.
Sessional Youth Worker - Sports Hall and Football
Contract: Sessional
Location: Unitas Youth Zone, 76 Montrose Avenue, Edgware, HA8 0DT
Salary: £13.85 per hour. Saturday evening premium is £15.42 per hour
Hours: Up to 15.5 hours a week. Evenings and weekends
Sport and Fitness, alongside the Arts and Youth Work, are at the heart of Unitas’s programme for young people. The sports and outdoor programme at Unitas are wide-ranging and as a member of the Sports team, you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and engaging programme of adventurous activities that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals of a single sport, or range of sports activities to young people, as well as facilitating taster sessions, competitions and challenges which build young people’s engagement, skills, and fitness levels. You will coach and develop teams and support volunteer sports coaches.
We’re more than a youth centre – we help young people unlock their potential.
BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
“Unitas has given me confidence to try to intract with people, to try bulding relationships”
Walid, Senior member, Young Leader Programme, 18
SUPPORTING THE FAMILIES OF OUR MEMBERS
“We can’t thank Unitas enough for the difference it has made to both Joes and our lives. Being a Unitas parent has even given me the opportunity to make friends, where we can chat, share ideas and strategies without judgement.”
Debbie, Limitless parent
HELPING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE THRIVE
“What I love about Unitas is that I can play with my friends and learn new things, like playing the piano, tennis, and even girls-only football. I enjoy all of this because it feels like a safe space. Since coming to Unitas, I’ve learned so much that I wouldn’t have learned at school.”
Delia-Maria, Junior member, 9
HELPING OUR YOUNG COMMUNITY BUILD RESILIENCE AND AMBITION
“Unitas feels like a community – MY community. I go as much as I can. Its a place I can chill out, train hard and seek advice if I need it. Unitas has given me the FIRE to be great!”
Colena, former member, current Youth Worker
CREATING A SPACE TO CONNECT AND BELONG
“After attending Unitas for a couple of years, I have learned to be more confident. This place makes me very happy because I have built lots of different relationships with people, which makes me feel connected.”
Sam, Limitless member, 16
HELPING TO IMPROVE SELF CONFIDENCE
“Unitas is amazing. It’s for the young people and it’s always there. It’s helped me. It’s given me friends, skills and confidence. You could say it cracked my shell – released me out into the world.”
Milan, Senior member, 18
TAILORED SUPPORT FROM INCREDIBLE AND TRUSTED YOUTH WORKERS
“Unitas gave me space to heal – and the push to grow. Yasmine especially… she’s more than a youth worker. She reminded me how brave I was, even when I didn’t feel it. She saw strength, capability, and potential in me when all I saw was fear and brokenness. She believed in me long before I believed in myself, she was one of the people who saved me. From the very first day I walked in, I knew I had found my commmunity”
Tamara, Senior member, 17
