Youth Support Worker

7 months ago

Cheltenham, United Kingdom Transition Support and Accommodation Full time

Job Summary:
We are seeking dedicated and compassionate **Youth Workers **to join our team. As a Youth Worker, you will play a vital role in providing advice, assistance and support to young people aged 16 - 24 years old. To support with their practical, and emotional needs increasing independent living skills. To act as an appropriate role model and to work closely with them to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential.

**Equal Opportunities**

All young people are equally entitled to have their needs met in a fair and balanced way. All staff are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any young person or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other perceived difference.If you have a passion for working with youth and making a positive impact on their lives, we encourage you to apply.

**Specific Duties and Responsibilitie**

To maintain a high quality of support which meets the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and cultural needs of young people.
- To provide a caring, supportive, and nurturing environment in which young people can feel secure and free from harm.
- Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard.
- Helping young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct.
- Ensuring that each young person’s support plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs.
- Provide training in Independent Living Skills to enable independent living (budgeting, finding employment, cooking, cleaning, basic general maintenance around the home etc.).
- To act as a key worker or co-worker for a young person to ensure that their support plans are up to date and that their needs are being met. To provide a positive role model to be able to offer advice, guidance, and assistance where appropriate.
- Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm, and rewarding.
- Providing advice, assistance, and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties.
- Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress.
- Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential.
- Providing support for young people in their education and extracurricular activities.
- Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager.
- Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future.
- Encouraging the young person to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social network.
- Maintaining confidentiality whilst also meeting the Sharing Information protocols in regard to safeguarding.

**To Work as Part of a Team**

▪ Being aware of the aims and objectives of the service and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them.

▪ Attending team/ staff meetings and making a positive contribution to them.

▪ Actively contributing to the development of the team.

▪ Receiving and storing information to improve communication.

▪ Being willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers.

▪ Being aware of support plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in the execution of those plans.

▪ Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues experiencing difficulties.

▪ Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions.

▪ Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing).

▪ Being familiar with all policies and procedures and adhering to them.

**General Responsibilities**
- Attending young people’s meetings and contributing to them.
- Driving personal vehicles (preferable, but not essential).
- Receiving training appropriate to the role and maintaining an up to date training profile.
- Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post.
- Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies.

**Special Conditions**
- Working hours are mainly covered between Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, however flexibility may be required to support people to events, or appointments. On rare occasions sleep ins may be required, which are paid in addition to the annual salary.
- You will be required to support the on-call rota for a week at a time, providing out of hours support of which training will be provided, and paid in addition to the annual salary. In accordance with the guidelines on

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