Cyp Outreach Worker

**Job description**

**CYP Outreach Worker**

**Location: Swindon**

**Hours**:37 hours per week

**Salary: £25,843.00**

**Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed**

**Job Purpose**:

- To provide support to children and young people who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse in the Swindon community.
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- facilitate healthy relationships education sessions in both primary and secondary schools.
- To support and educate young people about Domestic Abuse and Healthy Relationships
- To establish and maintain effective relationships with educational establishments and other external agencies supporting children.
- To work with both secondary schools and Further Education settings on implementation of healthy relationship education and facilitate drop-in sessions and workshops on this topic.
- To work with Primary and Secondary schools and Further Education settings, external agencies and parents to support the positive outcomes for children and young people who have experience of Domestic Abuse.

**Responsible to**:
CYP Manager

**Main duties**:
**Managing service delivery and performance**
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- facilitate healthy relationships education sessions in both primary and secondary schools.
- To work with children to identify support needs, and to signpost or refer to other agencies.
- To provide 1:1 support to children and young people who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse in the Swindon community.
- To support and educate young people who have experienced abusive behaviour
- To establish and maintain effective relationships with educational establishments and other external agencies supporting children.
- To work with both secondary schools and Further Education settings on implementation of healthy relationship education and facilitate drop-in sessions and workshops on this topic.
- To support the CYP team to arrange activities for children living in refuge accommodation
- To co-facilitate, where needed, The CYP Recovery Toolkit programme for children who have experienced domestic abuse to build confidence, self-esteem and resilience.
- To plan and provide a programme of activities for children to be delivered in the education setting.
- To work with parents and professionals to ensure positive outcomes for children.
- To create and keep up to date, promotional material to raise awareness of domestic abuse and the work the CYP service do.
- To attend multi agency meetings, conferences and community events to raise awareness on the work of SWA
- To ensure clear, accurate, complete and concise written records are kept on all support sessions and group activities within the child support service. This includes developing, monitoring and evaluation of work to evidence the effectiveness of the services provided and to continuously improve delivery.
- To remain up to date on child protection and safeguarding requirements, as well as SWA policies and procedures, bringing any concerns or issues immediately to the attention of managers.

**General**:

- There is no administrative support for this post and so it is important that the post-holder is self-servicing and that all information and administrative systems are kept up to date.
- To undertake risk assessments for all activities to ensure that all health and safety requirements are met.
- To develop and prepare performance reports, including basic statistics relating to service activity, and its effectiveness, as required.
- To maintain good communication with families accessing the service, informing parents and staff of any incidents and keeping accurate records of these.
- To identify, in conjunction with the CYP manager, training and development needs, and participate in training relevant to SWA’s commitment to providing high quality services.
- To work at all times with due regard to the policies and procedures of SWA, participating in their development and amendment where required.
- **It is essential to the development of Swindon Women’s Aid service delivery that the post holder is able to respond flexibly to changes in the requirements of this post. This job description is therefore a guide and not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities the post holder may have over time.**_

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Education and experience**:

- **Essential**_
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with children and young people in a professional setting
- Good level of numeracy, literacy and report writing skills.
- Experience of public speaking and presenting to a variety of audiences.
- **Desirable**_
- Paediatric first aid certificate, or willingness to train.
- A Qualification relating to youth work or social care would be advantageous.

**Knowledge**:

- Awareness of domestic violence issues and its impact on children and young people.
- Awareness of issues that may impact on children and young people, experiencing or witnessing domestic violence and abuse.
- Evidence of a good understanding and knowledge of child protection and safeguar