Young Persons Practitioner

**Role: Young Persons Practitioner**

**Salary: £23,500 per annum**

**Location: South Cornwall, Torpoint**

**Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time Working 37 hour per week.**

**Benefits**:29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, professional qualifications, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands. Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

**Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.**

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 671,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

**Why Action for Children?**

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

**What** you'll be doing**

Kernow Connect provides support services for young people aged 11-19 and up-to 25 for those with SEND across Cornwall. We offer Youth Groups and activities, Schools based interventions, One to One support and specialist CBT and Counselling.

We are looking for a passionate, calm, and empathetic individual to work as a Countywide referral screener. Your role will be to respond to Young People in the first instance when they reach out to our service for support. You will discuss with the Young People their needs and preferences, either supporting them to access our services or signpost them to an alternative service that may be more suitable.

In the role of Young Persons Practitioner, you'll be responsible for working with our Young People to plan, risk assess and deliver youth groups and activities.

**You'll do this by**:

- Working as part of a team with our partners to plan and deliver activities and youth groups to children and young people.
- Work with colleagues across county to promote and support Youth Parliament opportunities for young people.
- Planning and running school groups in Cornwall and supporting and delivering groups within the community.
- Delivering 1-1 support and mentoring young people as needed.
- Working flexibly to meet the needs of our service users.
- Plan and deliver a programme of activities and residential trips for young people.

**What** we **need** from you**:

- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a related field.
- Excellent group work and communication skills with young people and team members.
- Have experience of working in partnership with agencies to support children and young people.
- Experience of planning activities for young people.
- Good IT skills including experience of Microsoft Teams.
- Access to a suitable method of transport to enable the duties of the role to be carried out.

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