Young Persons Worker

3 weeks ago

Camden Town, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis, covering 7.5 - 9 hour shifts between 8AM - 10:30PM. There is a requirement to work every other weekend. Temporary cover is required for approximately 2 - 3 months.

Please note: you'll be working across 3 services within the Greenwich area (all within a 15 minute walk or short drive of each other)

In this position, you will be required to:
- Hold a caseload of 9 young people and undertake regular key working sessions resulting in co-produced support and safety plans that are SMART and evidence progress
- Produce comprehensive and high quality risk assessments and risk management plans
- In conjunction with colleagues, comprehensively assess referrals to the project to ensure suitable young people can be accepted
- Provide a safe, welcoming and high-quality standard of accommodation, ensuring when young people move in they feel comfortable and welcomed, and are given information concerning the building and other local services
- Assess the needs of young people in order to identify appropriate move on accommodation
- Minimise risk to young people by identifying, reporting, and following up any safeguarding concerns and incidents
- Work with social workers to enable young people to move back home if appropriate, or work with the housing pathway manager to support young people to move on through the social housing nomination scheme
- Support young people to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through the collection of rents and service charges and the minimisation of arrears and void loss
- Run activities and support young people to participate in activities to prepare them for independence and move through
- Provide support to young people who are ready to move into work, education, or training by assisting them to access suitable courses or placements
- Work in partnership with internal departments as well as external community agencies to ensure client needs are met
- Carry out Health & Safety duties

Please note: this role involves loneworking.

To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience of working with young people
- Knowledge of Ofsted's key principles for young people in supported accommodation and examples of how you can apply these principles in your work
- An understanding and experience of applying effective ways of working with this client group, in particular YP's with mental health & attachment needs including emerging personality disorder & significant self-harm
- Experience of working in a trauma informed and attachment focused way and a good understanding of the principles of this practice, and how they can be related to risk and needs assessment, planning, goal setting and reviews with young people
- Experience of working with young people to develop life skills and support their involvement in meaningful activities
- A demonstrable aptitude for working with at-risk young adults in a residential setting
- Ability to demonstrate through practice how 'Every Child Matters' relates to the young people living in our accommodation
- An excellent level of numeracy, literacy and comprehension of welfare benefits for under 21's, rents and service charges
- The ability to be self-servicing in the use of computers to create letters, minutes & reports

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