Lead Youth Worker South Wales for Connected

7 months ago


Remote, United Kingdom Adoption UK Full time

Are you an energetic and creative youth worker professional with the ability to engage and encourage young people to ensure their voices are heard? Are you keen to help give children and young people who’ve had a difficult start in life an equal chance of a bright future?

**Who we are**
Adoption UK is the leading charity providing support, community, and advocacy for adopters, adopted people and all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents. With a presence in all four nations of the UK, Adoption UK works with those with lived experience, professionals and politicians to bring about real change in people’s lives.

**What you’ll be doing**

JOB TITLE: Lead Youth Worker (South Wales) for Connected

RESPONSIBLE TO: Connected Manager

HOURS OF WORK: 19 hours a week (flexible with some evenings and 2 Saturdays a month)

LOCATION: Home based with travel across South Wales

DURATION: Permanent

SALARY / GRADE: Grade 4 (£27,917 - £31,023)

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- Connected Manager
- Connected staff team and volunteers
- Service Manager, Director and wider AUK managers
- Representative staff from regional adoption services and the Central team from National Adoption Service

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To deliver the existing Connected monthly activity groups for adopted children and young people in South Wales

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- To work with the Connected Service Managers and staff from the regional adoption service to continue to deliver the groups for Children and young people in South Wales.
- To deliver and promote all four elements of CONNECT, the Children and Young People’s service in South Wales, in collaboration with the regional partners and to work with the Adoption UK team to provide national events for adopted children and young people and one to one support, from time to time.
- To work closely with other Adoption UK staff delivering support to parents in Wales to ensure the young adopted person’s whole family is aware of and accessing adoption support services where appropriate
- To organize and supervise the work of the Child and Youth support worker, and representative staff provided by the regional adoption agencies, and volunteers, who help deliver the groups.
- To undertake the processing of referrals and initial engagement with young people and families.
- To work with the young people and their families to establish whether the service is appropriate for them and agree measurable outcomes in line with the guidance provided for the Regulated and Inspection Social Care 2016 Act for adoption services, as advised by the Service Manager.
- To refer on requests for other support identified through initial visits.
- To maintain agreed levels of contact with young people and their adoptive family whilst they remain registered with the service.
- To review at regular intervals whether the service is still an appropriate service for the children and young people.
- To plan an annual programme of group sessions and activities for delivery within the agreed budget with the support and direction of the Connected Manager.
- To take responsibility for the day to day planning and accurate recording of the service activity using the electronic data management system in place.
- To work closely with administrative and business support staff in the Wales office to ensure the booking of venues, activities etc. and gather output and outcome data from the service
- To support office based staff by gathering statistical and other relevant information to support fundraising activities for the service
- To support young people who wish to have their voices heard in national and regional forums and events.
- To attend internal and external training sessions and other meetings as appropriate, in order to learn and remain up to date with adoption issues, relevant policies, working practices and systems and network with other youth work providers in Wales.
- To engage in supervision and professional development

**Who you are**

With a background in youth work and managing groups of children and young people, you will bring together your passion to connect, engage and work with children and young people to ensure child centred services, you will also have:

- Sound knowledge of youth work and the principles of the UNCRC
- Good in-depth understanding of the needs of adopted or looked after children and young people and the ability to empathise.
- Be able to demonstrate significant experience of working in a youth work setting
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Confidence providing emotional safety support for young people

Ideally you will hold a Youth work degree, however we are happy to consider people with alternative qualifications if you have significant management experience.

**What we offer**:
The role attracts a full-time equivalent salary of £27,917 - £31,023 per annum, pro rata.

We offer generous annual leave which accumulates with ser


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