Community Engagement Worker

3 weeks ago

East Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom Includem Full time

**Weekly Hours: 10 hours**

**Shift Pattern: Friday and Saturday 5pm - 10pm**

**UK driving license is essential for the role**

**Purpose of Role**

Detached youth work is a model of youth work delivery with workers going to where young people are; this can be in parks, ball courts, shopping centres or streets/neighbourhoods. This will involve partnership working with other service providers including community organisations, voluntary sector youth work providers, community wardens, and Police Scotland.

To provide detached youth work in priority locations within East Dunbartonshire
- To build positive relationships with children and young people, encourage positive behaviours and provide diversionary activities.
- Engaging children and young in a young person-centred, non-judgemental way, meeting young people where they are, building relationships and gaining trust.
- Provide information for young people on diversionary activities.
- Build a model of trusted relationships with young people to help engage them in positive activities, education, training, employment and support.
- Work in partnership across a range of services and organisations to help build a holistic neighbourhood assessment and plan using principles of contextual safeguarding.
- Respond to incidents and issues quickly and creatively to provide diversion and safety for young people.
- Signpost and refer to other appropriate services.

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**

**Service**
- As one of a team of 2 community engagement workers, you will jointly deliver at least one outreach session per week, with each session lasting between 3 to 5 hours.
- Introduce yourself and includem’s services to young people with the aim of engaging them in discussion, building relationships and sustaining engagement.
- Engage and build respectful, honest, challenging and supportive relationships with young people including those who may previously have had little contact with services and may be hard to reach.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of young people in all contexts, with awareness of the risks that may be faced in respect of physical health & emotional well-being, educational attainment, sexual development, crime & gang activity, and personal finance.
- Acquire local knowledge and develop a meaningful dialogue with young people with the purpose of assessing their individual or collective needs in order to provide early help interventions to meet them.
- Provide effective pathways and access to appropriate services and provision so that young people receive the help they need at the earliest opportunity.
- Establish routes and set times that young people can become familiar with.
- Form working relationships with partner agencies and stakeholder groups that have contact with young people and also businesses where young people may congregate.
- Build relationships with night-time economy contacts and stakeholders to develop a presence in places where drug use may feature.
- Contribute to East Dumbarton’s wider contextual safeguarding approach.
- Keep up to date with national and local knowledge, issues and external developments that may impact on the street work programme.
- Ensure that includem’s statutory and legal obligations are met.
- Record and detail key data including the number of young people engaged with and the issues covered in discussions.
- Identify and record new potential support needs in partnership with the young people who you are engaging with.
- Work in partnership with existing community resources, organisations with a view to support positive change.
- Assess and respond appropriately to situations where young people may be at risk of harm. This may involve escalation and referral to more appropriate services.

**People**
- Understand the impact of mental wellbeing and engagement from the young person and families, so that a range of support can be offered.
- Understand the individuals wellbeing needs, identify any barriers and provide appropriate support.
- Demonstrate professional resilience when providing support with sensitive or challenging issues.
- Understand and manage emotions, recognise and challenge behaviours
- Celebrate strengths, aims and engender hope maximizing health and wellbeing outcomes.
- Establish mutually trusting, open and non-judgemental relationship with young people.
- Develop strong partnerships with the wider stakeholders to support the delivery of Includem services.

Help young people share what it is they need to better support their own health and wellbeing.
- Promote shared learning and contribute to continuous service, design and development.
- Role model appropriate responses and convey a positive attitude towards day to day activities.
- Establish and maintain high quality relationships with referrers and partner agencies to ensure the right young people get the right help at the right time and that their progress is recognised.
- Identification of service gaps in the area and using

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