Engagement Worker

Organisation
- Dorset Council
- Location
- Dorchester, United Kingdom
- Reference
- 61055510
- Occupational group
- Health and Social Care - Children's
- Salary details
- £15,550 - £17,706
- Job term
- Part Time
- Appointment type
- Fixed Term
- Contact
- Laurence Doe
- Contact telephone
- 01305 221350
- Closing Date
- 13 April 2023 11:00 PM

**Engagement Worker**:
**18.5 hours (flexible working considered)**:
**Fixed term until 1**st** June 2024**:
**Salary £15,550 - £17,706 per annum**:
**County Hall, Dorchester, combined with home-working**:
**What’s in it for you**:
Do you love working with children, young people and their families? We have a fabulous opportunity for the right person to come and work for us in Dorset. We want you to help us put children, young people and their families' voices at the heart of safeguarding children.

The post holder will need to be creative, flexible, able to form relationships with children, young people and families, have fun, able to work on their own initiative, driven, and most importantly want to make a difference in the lives of children and their families.

**What you can expect to be doing**:
This post will lead on developing and sustaining meaningful relationships with children and their families and to gather and provide feedback to the multi-agency Partnership.

The Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (PDSCP) in Dorset is committed to ensuring that the views and experiences of children, young people, parents and or carers is used to inform service design and development and to provide feedback on areas where we can do better.

**About you**:
As part of this Dorset Council has created this new post for an initial period of 12 months (this could also be a secondment opportunity with your manager's approval). This is an exciting opportunity to develop and shape the role to ensure that you are talking to the people that really count.

**Additional Information**:
**_ Please be aware that interviews will be held on Tuesday 18_**_th_**_ April 2023._**

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

**Dorset Council: A great place to work**:
We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

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