Youth Worker

Hours: 35 hours per week

**Salary**: £22,064 - £23,682 (SCP 17 - SCP 20)

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
The primary focus is support delivery within the Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning Team to assist with the effective deliver of high-quality youth work initiatives to our young people. Our youth work initiatives include a range of educational and vocational programmes to ensure our young people have an inclusive learning journey during their time at Rossie. There is also a requirement to ensure collaborative working with care, health and specialist staff to ensure holistic delivery for outcomes for young people

**In conjunction with education colleagues, support the delivery of educational, training and vocational programmes for young people**:

- Develop an understanding of the interests, strengths, needs and vulnerabilities of our young people to ensure a holistic, collaborative and therapeutic approach to learning for all our young people.
- Support the education team in developing and delivering targeted interventions (based on nurture principles) for all young people.
- Proactively assist with the planning and review processes for individual young people, and for the Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning team.
- Build positive and trusting relationships with young people through individual and small group working.
- Support and assist with the delivery of relevant programmes and activities with groups of young people as part of their planned learning programme.
- Establish activities which will promote the personal, social, educational and material welfare of our young people.

**Support the planning, risk assessment and organisation of appropriate programmes and activities**:

- Support and assist with the safe planning of activities which allow young people to undertake specific learning initiatives which will be relevant to their interests.
- Work collaboratively to ensure all activities are risk assessed and take account of the specific vulnerabilities of individual young people.
- Ensure intended outcomes and success criteria are communicated clearly, that sessions begin and end as scheduled, and that resources are appropriate, available, and safely managed.
- Work collaboratively with team members and young people to ensure progress is consistently made, and in line with intended activity plans.

**Create, procure, or obtain resources to facilitate working with young people during their learning journey**:

- In planning work for young people, ensure that the necessary resources are available at the time that they are required by young people.
- Ensure a proactive awareness of budgeting constraints and adhere to financial requirements.

**Support young people to achieve accredited youth awards**:

- In collaboration with education colleagues, promote and organise events for young people inclusive of participation in the Forest School.
- Work closely with relevant external bodies to raise awareness and support delivery of accredit awards.
- Proactive involvement of our young people in evaluating work carried out.

**Monitor and evaluate on all activities and programmes delivered**:

- Support the collation of data to assist with evaluation of accredited programmes of work
- Collate information re young people’s education journeys to ensure dissemination with educational and other colleagues as well as parents/careers as required.

**Other associated tasks**:

- Support young people to represent their views
- Attend relevant organisational and young people meetings as required.
- Please note this job description is to provide a clear and concise statement of the main tasks and activities of the post, and it is not intended as an exhaustive list of every aspect of the post holder's duties. All the above duties will be carried out in line with Rossie policies and procedures._

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:
**Qualifications (Essential)**:

- Educated to SCQF Level 7 in relevant field.

**Qualifications (Desirable)**:

- ASN qualification
- Wider achievement awards (ASDAN, Princess Trust, Youth Achievement Award, The Duke of Edinburgh)
- CALM (Crisis, Aggression and Limitation Management) training

**Skills (Essential)**:

- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of team
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise work load and meet deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and oral and written communication skills
- Ability to deal with confidential and sensitive matters

**Experience (Essential)**:

- Working with young people in an education or similar background
- Working with young people in group settings

**Experience (Desirable)**:

- Working with young people in an ASN environment
- Community based learning
- Supporting successful bids for external funding

**Knowledge Base (Essential)**:

- Awareness of strategies to support young people with a range of additional and complex support needs

**Knowledge Base (Desirable)**:

- Awareness and understanding of Curriculum f