Your Career
Whatever your role is with YMCA Brunel Group, you
are playing a key part in transforming lives
Our values reflect the role we play within our community. We embed these in every aspect of our work, including how we treat our staff.
Yvain
Accommodation and Support Worker at Hillside House, Yeovil
I have worked for both YMCA Nottingham (where I come from) and YMCA Brunel Group. The YMCA had always supported me and my friends in Nottingham when we were younger. After a positive experience receiving help from a youth support worker, I began volunteering at YMCA Nottingham.
Towards the end of my graduation, I moved to the South West and I was struggling to find a position of interest. My field is working with young people and their mental health. I worked for a company but I was not really helping young people there, I wanted to make more of an impact.
YMCA Nottingham gave me the contact details of YMCA Brunel Group and advised that I should apply to a Youth Support Worker role, which I got! Since then, I have been very happy to be working at Hillside House. It feels like a second home, and I totally cherish the YMCA values across our Thrive 16+ projects.
I would now like to specialise in music therapy for young people and have dreams to set up my own business. I will forever be grateful to the YMCA – both for the personal support given and for my work experiences.
I hope I will be working with YMCA again in the future!
Jessica Young
Accommodation & Support Worker at Arthur’s House, Glastonbury
When I was 17, I was made homeless after a family breakdown. Influenced by my time in supported housing, I tried loads of different college courses to try becoming a support worker but wasn’t in the right headspace to complete them. After discovering the YMCA, I joined their support worker training at YMCA Crewe. Here I discovered just how big the YMCA is and everything it does beyond just training.
YMCA Crewe believed in me, which I was very thankful for. They offered volunteer work, followed by a reception role and soon some shifts on the housing duty team. I was put forward to join the Youth Ambassador programme. This was a great way of networking, gaining knowledge of what the other YMCA’s are doing and training to better yourself. The programme helped me in my role as well as the people I was working with.
Since then the YMCA has held a special place for me because it’s the only employer that has seen me for me and seen me as an individual not a number. They have put time into me which ultimately makes you feel great and want to give back. They’ve helped me better myself, not only to become a better employee but become a better person.
The values YMCA have been aligned with mine and I can’t wait to see what the future holds, I’m into my 4th week into my new role at YMCA Brunel Group, its different to the other YMCA’s I’ve been involved with before, and I can’t wait to get into it more, learn more, grow as a person and form professional relationships with the residents and staff!
If you have any enquiries about working with us at YMCA Brunel Group, please contact our
People Management team at People@ymca-bg.org.