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Provide leadership to other youth workers and volunteers

URN: CLD YW26
Business Sectors (Suites): Youth Work
Developed by: CLD Standards Council Scotland
Approved on: 29 Mar 2019

Overview

This standard is about providing youth work support, mentoring, coaching and advice to other workers. You will share your own youth work professional practice when providing support. 

This standard is suitable for youth work practitioners who work with others to provide youth work services and provide them with support and advice without having line management responsibilities. It is also suitable for youth workers who are supporting others to develop their youth work practice. 

In the context of this standard, other workers can mean those within and external to your organisation, including those who may not have a specific youth work role and responsibilities.

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. provide other workers with youth work support, mentoring, coaching and advice
  2. help others in your work area to develop their own ways of working and take their own decisions within agreed boundaries
  3. assist other workers to take a lead in their own areas of expertise and show willingness to follow this lead
  4. work within any required structures, procedures and requirements of your own and other organisations when providing support to other workers
  5. work in line with the values and principles underpinning youth work when working with others
  6. resolve any difficulties and challenges other workers and volunteers may present to you
  7. meet the values and principles underpinning youth work in relation to the requirements of this standard

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. legal, regulatory and ethical requirements relating to youth work, and their impact on own area of operations
  2. the fundamental differences between management and providing support in a non-managerial capacity
  3. the types of support that can be provided such as mentoring, informal supervision and professional practice advice, and how these differ
  4. types of support and advice that others are likely to need and how to respond to these
  5. ways of reflecting youth work professional practice when providing support, mentoring or informal supervision to other workers
  6. different methods for communicating with others and how to select and successfully apply methods in different situations
  7. types of difficulties and challenges that may arise, including conflict within the area, and ways of identifying and overcoming them
  8. the importance of encouraging others to take the lead and ways in which this can be achieved
  9. how to empower others effectively
  10. how to select and successfully apply different methods for encouraging, motivating and supporting others and recognising achievement
  11. your own values, motivations and emotions
  12. your own role, responsibilities and level of autonomy
  13. the overall objectives of your organisation
  14. the values and principles underpinning youth work in relation to the requirements of this standard

Scope/range

Scope Performance

Scope Knowledge

Values

Behaviours

Skills

Glossary

Links To Other NOS

External Links

Version Number

1

Indicative Review Date

28 Mar 2022

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

CLD Standards Council

Original URN

LSI YW31

Relevant Occupations

Youth Workers

SOC Code

3221

Keywords

Youth; young people; support; other workers; effective; practice; mentoring; information; advice; supervision; values; motivate; empower; improvement; trust; development; objectives