Young Persons Worker

1 week ago

St Ives, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

**Role: Young Persons Worker** (Casual)**

**Circa Salary: £12 per hour**

**Location: CORNWALL - **There are 3 available roles.1 in East Cornwall (Bude, Callington, Torpoint, Wadebridge) 1 in Mid Cornwall (Truro, Newquay, St Columb) 1 in West Cornwall (Penzance, Camborne, St Ives, Portreath).**

**Contract/Hours**:Casual
- These posts are to cover annual leave and sickness cover as and when required, so flexibility is essential to cover evening youth groups and some school hour delivery.**

**Benefits**:

- Paid annual leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
- Generous fuel allowance.

**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.

**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. We also have the Investor in People Silver Award

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 671,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard and we campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

**About the Service**:
We provide a number of services across Cornwall, Kernow Connect, Cornwall SPACE, and the Adolescent Intervention Service (Connect+). The Young Persons Worker role will be supporting Kernow Connect which provides support for young people aged 11-19 and up to 25 with SEND across the County, you will be delivering youth work provision including place based groups, outreach and detached work, holiday activities, 1-1 support for young people and schools based interventions.

**What you will be doing as a Young Persons Worker**:

- Providing a high-quality service that is outcome driven to young people aged 11+ and up to 25 with a special educational need or disability.
- Delivering youth activities and interventions with young people 11+ in centre-based youth groups, and on a 1:1 basis.
- Maintaining effective working relationships and channels of communications with colleagues their families where necessary professionals.
- Being alert to child protection and safeguarding issues.
- Retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture case details.
- Guiding and supporting apprentices and volunteers where necessary.

**Let's talk about you**:

- Flexibility and availability to work some evenings and school hours.
- Must be able to drive and have own vehicle.
- S/NVQ Level 2 or equivalent. Youth work, social care or equivalent or willingness to work towards.
- Experience of working with young people, preferably in the 11+ age range.
- Experience of working in a health, early years, or social care setting and as part of a team or as an individual to deliver a frontline service.
- An awareness and an ability to identify and act upon safeguarding concerns with clients and to follow agreed reporting procedures.
- A working knowledge of working with an outcome-based approach to planning, delivering, and reviewing services.
- Ability to identify and assess individual needs and to manage and prioritize own work schedule within agreed timescales.
- Demonstrates commitment to personal development and undertaking relevant training.
- Ability to effectively utilise Microsoft Outlook and other IT packages.

**Diversity, equality and inclusion**

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

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