Youth Worker Education

**Youth Worker Education & Inclusion**

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bury Council’s Family Help Service and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and dedicated Education & Inclusion Youth Worker practitioner initially for a 1-year fixed term position. The primary focus of the role will be to support young people either returning to education following elective home education (EHE) or child missing education (CME) episodes, or where there have been concerns around attendance predominantly relating to Social Emotional & Mental Health (SEMH).

**About You**

As the dedicated Education & Inclusion Youth Worker, you will provide time limited periods of intervention (between 6 12 weeks) to young people who have been identified as requiring support to transition back into a school setting, or to improve their attendance at school.

This youth worker role is intended to provide targeted one to one and group work support to young people to support them back into education. Most of these young people will be facing multiple barriers and complex issues that will need to be sensitively managed, and support tailored to their individual needs. As the dedicated Youth Worker, you will ensure that young people have a say and that the service meets their identified needs. The services will be delivered in a variety of settings and will include one to one work and may also include group work if need necessitates.

As the Education & Inclusion Youth Worker, you will identify, plan and deliver suitable positive activity programmes that will engage young people within the Borough and help them to reach their full potential through one-to-one work, and group work where needed.

You will work collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure young people can access all the support they need to achieve their full potential.

Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week, however, this will be flexible dependent on service requirements, and you may be required to work on a flexibly between 7am and 9pm on a rota basis.

You will need to hold a JNC (Joint Negotiating Committee) recognised national or local youth work qualification (NVQ3 equivalent) or degree level qualification in a related field. Or an NVQ Level 4/professional qualification in Youth Work, Teaching, Social Work, Careers Guidance, etc.

We strive to provide a supportive and dynamic work environment for our employees with a strong focus on support, training and development and health and wellbeing.

**Next steps**

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Jen Mills (Service Manager) on 01612 537761 / 07876212433.

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you For an informal discussion about the role please contact Service Manager Jen Mills on.

**Employee Benefits include**:

- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A range of attractive work/life balance policies.
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 31 days after 5 years), plus an additional day of leave over the Christmas period and the option to buy an additional 10 days on top of that.
- Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local business within the borough as well as a
- Cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through difficult times, with things like free counselling, financial or legal advice.

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**We listen.**

We hold monthly Voice of the Workforce meetings where we discuss how we can resolve practice challenges and create better conditions for social work to thrive.

We encourage work-life balance.

We want our practitioners to have enough time to relax, spend time with family and friends, and feel good, so that they can do their best at work.

Please be aware that we are not carrying out international recruitment at present and are currently unable to support sponsorship visas.

**About Bury**

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.

**Benefits of working for Bury Council**

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities, and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore, we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled chil