Residential Youth Worker

3 months ago

Chesterfield, United Kingdom Adullam Homes Full time

**Residential Youth Worker - Supported Accommodation - Derbyshire looked after children and Care leavers**

A fulfilling and exciting opportunity has become available for a support worker post in our young person’s service in **Chesterfield**. The young people in our service may have left foster care, care homes, experienced family breakdowns or may be seeking asylum, and require a robust support network around them to empower them to gain independence.

You will be a vital member of the team, guiding these young people to gain the confidence and necessary skills to move on to independent accommodation. This will include developing and delivering a nurturing person-centred support to suit the needs of everyone accessing the service. You will help them to gain skills such as budgeting, maintaining their accommodation and cooking; guiding young people to make safe choices, to look after their mental and physical health and engage young people in education and encourage them to fulfil their potential.

The support should assist young people in developing the skills required to overcome barriers and learn skills towards independence. The post holder must be empathetic, knowledgeable and professional in understanding the specific needs of young people transitioning into adulthood.

You will be expected to contribute to the maintenance and development of the Association’s values, culture and ethos.

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**

To develop and deliver a person-centred support package that is tailored to the needs of each young person accessing the service.

**KEY RESULTS AREAS**

**Key Result Area**

**1**

To adopt a person centred and trauma informed approach to build trust with our Young People and develop tailored support plans in line with our Statement of Purpose and OFSTED regulations.

**2**

To develop, promote and deliver direct, planned and structured one to one activities and group sessions co-designed with our Young People in line with support and coproduction plans.

**3**

To support and assist young people in developing the skills required to build resilience, overcome barriers and advocate for themselves, to enable them to move on into permanent housing, integrate into communities and maintain their independence in line with their specific needs.

**4**

To act to de-escalate incidents of anti-social behaviour in a person centred way to meet the needs and ensure safety of the young people within our accommodation in line with the Associations values, policies and procedures.

**5**

To act as first point of contact and coordinate caseload engaging where appropriate colleagues, third-party agencies and housing support to facilitate the move on of our young people into their own accommodation in line with support plan and their specific needs.

**6**

To record, update and maintain documentation and e-records of support activities signposting changes and outcomes to key stakeholders in accordance with GDPR, policies and procedure.

**7**

To observe, identify and act on known or new safeguarding concerns developing safety management plans in conjunction with the young person to mitigate risks and maintain safety in accordance with policy and procedure.

**8**

To carry out entry/exit tasks, safety and welfare checks, and respond to emergencies and crises that arise within service hours in accordance with policy and procedure.

**Know How
Job holder will have acquired knowledge through on the job experience and/or additional qualifications. Most work undertaken will be tailored to the needs of each young person presenting to our service albeit it will be of a routine nature requiring the job holder to follow established practices, procedure and policies. There will be requirement for lone-working on-site/off-site with young people. The job holder will require a degree of persuasiveness/assertiveness when supporting our young people with their emotional and other support needs. Job holder will be engaging, creative and adaptive when working with young people. Job holder will hold a caseload of young people and coordinate support in line with support plans and in consultation with young people.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**

The job holder will carry out any other duties that are deemed appropriate to the post.

The responsibilities of this post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or level of responsibility entailed.

We are all accountable for the Health & Safety of ourselves and others, put simply this includes you taking the time to complete all learning, understanding you role specific responsibilities, working with reasonable care and taking steps to report problems related to health and safety. Please sign up to the Association’s health and safety rules - see Appendix 2.

**Adullam offers the following benefits.**
- **Salary up to £21,848.40 for 37.4 hours **per week,
- Competitive Annual Leave (25 days annual leave and 2 extra days added for a year of no

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