Youth Network Technician

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Job Summary: This role involves supporting young people with mental health challenges in building meaningful life projects and fostering family collaboration. Key Highlights: 1. Individual and group support for young people with mental health issues 2. Promotion of community bonding and personal development 3. Guidance and support for families of young people with mental health conditions Country Spain Province Santa Coloma de Gramenet \- Barcelona Application Deadline 31/05/2026 Category Direct Care Type of Offer Targeted at persons with disabilities **Create Alert** **NGO Information** Federació Salut Mental Catalunya **Rating** (0 ratings) **info** Response rate: 83.60% **info** **Objective** ------------ **YOUTH NETWORK TECHNICIAN BARCELONA** **MISSION OF THE POSITION** The program’s overall objective is to support young people with mental health issues in constructing a meaningful life project, encouraging them to choose a life path appropriate to their current stage of life. It is also essential to strengthen constructive family support so that families can help and collaborate in understanding the young person, thereby sustaining their life project within the family context. The program aims to promote the young person’s recovery or stimulation of community ties, the creation of a personalized pathway, and access to professional guidance to assist them during transitional, changing, or loss-related phases—such as adolescence and early youth. **POSITION DEFINITION** This position falls under SM Catalunya’s operational area and reports directly to the Directorate of Services for People. Main Functions and Responsibilities: * **Individual Intervention with the Young Person:** Inform about the program, its objectives, and intervention methodology. Support the welcome process and integration into the program. Provide individualized follow-up and jointly design personalized plans with the service user. Evaluate and re\-adapt intervention plans. Provide emotional support and accompaniment to enable the young person to advance along agreed-upon pathways and life projects.* **Group Intervention with the Young Person:** Design, plan, and implement activities promoting relational spaces with other young people; identify meaningful activities; enhance motivation and interest; facilitate execution of group-chosen meaningful activities; and foster an environment where personal capacities can be strengthened, enabling future participation in other community activities. Continuously evaluate group activities and redefine them as needed. Coordinate with external individuals and/or auxiliary Youth Network staff delivering group activities.* **Family Intervention:** Guide and accompany the young person’s family (the family must understand what their child is experiencing in order to support them in achieving their goals, motivations, concerns… respecting their pace), both individually and in groups. Design, plan, and implement group activities.* **Administrative Functions:** Promote the program within the local territory. Establish collaboration agreements with educational institutions. Coordinate and supervise territorial project evaluation. Prepare documents related to the organization and operation of the Youth Network: reports, innovative programs. Conduct territorial needs assessments and adopt a proactive attitude toward exploring new funding sources. Economic and administrative management responsibility for the program, supported by the administrative department. Responsibility for securing funding to ensure program sustainability. **EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS:** * Permanent contract * 35-hour weekly schedule, Monday to Friday, distributed from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. * Gross annual salary for 35 hours is €20,755. *(At 40 hours it would be €23,720 gross annually)* * Workplace: Santa Coloma de Gramenet * Flexible working hours. * Start date: Mid-May. **Profile:** **PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PROFILE** A person with an optimistic, positive, and proactive attitude, committed to continuous improvement and service to others; organized and methodical; capable of making decisions within their scope of responsibility and managing services. * Education: University degree in the sociosanitary field, specifically: social work, social education, or psychology. * Minimum one year of professional experience in similar positions. * Demonstrable expert knowledge in project coordination and management. * Demonstrable expert knowledge in budgetary management. * Demonstrable expert knowledge in team management. * Demonstrable expert knowledge in mental health. * Languages: Catalan level C. * Desirable familiarity with the functioning of third-sector organizations. **COMPETENCIES** * Results-oriented, flexible, and highly capable of teamwork. * Socially sensitive and aware, with strong capacity to understand the social reality of diverse groups linked to the mental health field. * Decision-making capacity within the scope of their responsibilities. * Organization and rigor: an organized, detail-oriented, and rigorous individual in daily practice. * Innovation: proactive and able to contribute novel ideas, think out of the box, while remaining mindful of the sector and the organization’s mission. * Service-oriented individual with ability to build relationships of trust with diverse people and environments. **Competencies:** Learning ability, Optimism and enthusiasm, Flexibility, Technical and personal reliability, Interpersonal communication **Level:** Employee **Contract Type:** Intensive shift **Duration:** Permanent **Salary:** Between €18,001 and €24,000 gross/year **Minimum Education:** Diploma **Minimum Experience:** At least 1 year **Start Date:** 11/05/2026 **Number of Vacancies:** 1