Youth Worker| Permanent| Full-Time
Salary £28,142 - £32,061 Per annum | Permanent| Full Time - 37 hours per week
International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship
Reporting to a relevant Team Manager within Contextual Safeguarding, post holders will work in partnership with other Contextual Safeguarding Youth Workers in their team and across the county to provide high quality, proactive 1:1 and group based support to young people aged approximately13-18 who are experiencing identified and assessed challenges and safeguarding risks which are contextual and/or extra familial. Post holder deployment will be principally focussed on one of the following geographical team areas;
• North -Wyre, Fylde & Lancaster
The Contextual Safeguarding Youth Workers will offer intensive and targeted support and direct work with vulnerable teenagers as an integrated specialism and focus principally on providing wrap around support for those young people at significant risk of poor outcomes as a result of contextual issues and behaviours exposing them to potential harm. Postholders will work from within the multi-disciplinary contextual teams. They will develop and deliver specific direct work responses to support the young people both one to one, or as necessary, in a small group based context as appropriate. They will connect young people with wider support from a range of relevant services and work with them in the context of their wider family. Where appropriate they will identify, develop and implement evidenced based therapeutic approaches which will facilitate the learning and growth of young people in relation to the issues affecting their lives.
This will include but is not limited to working with young people that have.
- Relationship issues and/or behavioural impact which puts the young person at risk of family breakdown and risk of potential homelessness/ being brought into local authority care.
- Impact of significant emotional/mental wellbeing issues on young person's engagement with school, family, peers etc.
- Those who are going missing, and those at risk of, or experiencing exploitation (Sexual and Criminal).
- Those with persistent emotional wellbeing challenges
- Those not taking up their education.
- Those engaging in harmful activities and behaviours for example serious youth violence, criminal activity
Contextual Safeguarding Youth Workers will work directly with young people. This will be alongside a Social Worker and multi agency team for the child and wider family. They will support in the design and delivery of bespoke (evidence-based) direct work and packages of support, which are based on the individuals' bespoke needs. This package of direct invention and support will ensure the young person's particular safety and recovery needs are met, and they can facilitate access to specialist support, treatment, and protection services as are necessary.
Post holders will be expected to work flexibly to enable them to regularly undertake evening and less frequently, weekend work, to meet the needs of communities and children and young people. They will be expected to both deliver and manage 1:1 activity and be tenacious in seeking to develop relationships with young people and potentially work peripatetically across localities to meet business needs.
Post holders will be required to take a proactive approach to developing new responses to the changing and emerging needs of young people. They will be required to work in a strengths-based and restorative way with young people and have well developed skills to develop strong relationships with others.
The aim is to keep families in Lancashire together safely, supporting them at the right time to improve health and educational outcomes for the children and reduce physical and emotional harm in families.
Children, young people, and their families are safe, healthy and achieve their full potential
To deliver this vision we have agreed some key outcomes:
Five Outcomes
1. Vulnerable children and young people are safe from harm and build resilience.
2. Children and young people achieve their full potential in education, learning and future employment.
3. Children and young people enjoy heathy lifestyles and know how to help others.
4. Children, young people and families have a voice in shaping the support they receive.
5. Children and young people live in Lancashire where they can enjoy a good quality of life, be happy and want to stay.
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
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