Engagement Worker

1 month ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Positive Steps Full time

**Title: Engagement Worker - Missing from Home and Youth Justice**

**Hours: 36**

**Salary: PSO3 - £23,458.74 - £25,694.13 per annum**

**Reporting: Operational Manager**

**Contract: Permanent**

We seek to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Engagement Worker to work with children who are reported missing from home. Through offering a return home interview, you will provide an opportunity for the child to discuss the reasons they went missing from home, the vulnerabilities they may have been exposed to and what can be done to protect them from going missing again, with a view to reducing the frequency of incidents and safeguard them from harm. Accurate and timely recording and sharing of information with a multi
- agency team is key to this.

We value agile working so you will be working from our central Oldham office, home, and out in the community.

Our training, partnership links and excellent management support will help you to develop the skills and knowledge you need to further progress your career.

**Closing Date**: Thursday 1st June 2023, Midday

**Selection**: TBC

**JOB PURPOSE**
- To support children working with the Missing from Home and Youth Justice Service through the delivery of interventions to manage risk and safeguard children

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide activities and interventions for children who are reported missing from home and their families, to improve their safety and wellbeing
- Provide delegated case management activity for children and families working with Youth Justice Service to promote desistance and protect the public from harm, delivering holistic support to address a wide range of needs
- Providing interventions for children and their families working with Missing from Home and Youth Justice in line with relevant legislation, quality standards and best practice to safeguard the service
- Undertake accurate, timely recording using digital caseload management systems to meet contract requirements
- Maintain relationships with other professionals to improve outcomes for children
- Provide support to volunteers to effectively deliver services
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet service and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager

**Key Relationships - Internal & External**
- External - Youth, community and education providers
- Internal - Staff and volunteers

**Person Specification**

**Experience**
- Demonstrable experience of working with children in the field of youth justice/safeguarding services or a related field
- Demonstrable experience of developing productive and effective relationships with children
- Demonstrable experience of partnership working
- Demonstrable experience of communicating through verbal and written presentations
- Demonstrable experience in promoting diversity

**Knowledge**
- Awareness of Criminal Justice or Safeguarding Services
- Awareness of risk management, safeguarding legislation and guidance, implementation of Child Protection Procedures and the boundaries of professional relationships
- Awareness of adolescent development and the impact of trauma
- Understanding of Health & Safety legal requirements and best practice

**Skills**
- Developed skills in engaging,supporting and motivating children and families
- Primary communication and presentational skills Primary skills in creativity and original thinking with the ability to develop practical solutions to problems
- Primary inter-personal and team working skills
- Primary skills in Microsoft Office and database systems
- Primary skills in literacy and numeracy

**Personal attributes**
- Sound judgement and awareness of organisational and political sensitivities
- Sound professional and tactical judgement and the ability to establish priorities and principles
- Resilient and able to work independently as required
- Commitment to Positive Steps vision and values

**Additional requirements**
- Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of customers and organisation
- Able to travel throughout the region and at times the country
- Evening and weekend working required
- Enhanced DBS required

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,458.71-£25,694.13 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Oldham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- working with children in youth justice/safeguarding: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oldham

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