Young Persons Worker

6 months ago


St Austell, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

Action for Children
**Role**:Young Persons Worker

**Salary**: £11.04 an hour

**Contract/Hours: CASUAL -** There will be opportunities to work 3 days a week in the Easter and Summer holidays as well as opportunities to support our youth group delivery.

**Benefits**:Paid annual leave, pension scheme, career progression, fantastic training opportunities, employee wellbeing support, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands.

**With** a casual post, there is **flexibility** to choose when you work, around your study, **family**, **retirement**, or home life**

**Location**: Cornwall

**Benefits**:29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, and a 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.

**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

**The Role**

Action for Children Cornwall SPACE is a Cornwall Council funded service providing Holiday Activities for disabled children and young people aged between 5 - 18 years. We offer disabled children and young people exciting new activities to try, providing families with an all-important short break service.

We also offer three youth groups for young disabled people between 14 - 25 years. We have services in the west, mid and east of the County. We are currently looking for a number of Young Persons Workers to work across the county.

**You will make a difference by**:

- Providing 1:1 support in group activities.
- Supporting and encouraging active participation across our group sessions.
- Building and maintaining excellent rapport with children and their families.
- Updating relevant paperwork.

**You will need**:

- Experience of working with Young people aged 5-25 with learning disabilities would be an advantage.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of safeguarding
- Creative, positive and proactive approach towards
- Confidence to conduct 1-2-1 sessions and group work that support children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing.
- To be able to work and travel across

**Diversity, equality, and inclusion**

**Don't meet every single requirement?**

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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