Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Across the county of Leicestershire, work base is County Hall LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field based
Salary: £31,074- £33,294 per annum
Working Hours: 37 Per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 21st November 2024
Interview Date(s): 10th December 2024
The Inclusion Service are looking for a Youth Worker to join our team. You will be working face to face with children and young people who are facing challenges in accessing education, to explore the barriers and support them to re-engage.
About the Role
The youth worker role involves meeting children, young people and families in their homes, at educational establishments, training providers or at community venues and includes the planning and delivery of youth work programmes. Supported by your Manager and an Education Officer, you will be expected to identify barriers, find solutions and advocate for young people, so that schools can make suitable reasonable adjustments. The role involves having a knowledge of wider services to which you would signpost and refer to accordingly.
All work undertaken must be regularly recorded on our database. You will be part of the staff team primarily covering the West of the county, and part of the wider Inclusion Service Team covering the whole county. Travel across the county is therefore necessary, along with a flexible approach as some out of hours working may be required
This is a rewarding job delivering interventions with young people, supporting them to re-engage in education, empowering them for their future, and giving you a chance to be part of a dynamic team.
Key Responsibilities
Case Management: case manage children and young people who have been identified as requiring an intervention. This involves the post-holder undertaking assessments, planning interventions, undertaking interventions with individuals and families, reviewing the work undertaken and closing input at the appropriate time with a robust exit strategy.
Contribute to developing innovative and positive work for groups of vulnerable children, young people and their families and carers. This includes building positive relationships with participants to support them to effectively engage in the programme delivered.
Identify needs and find solutions: Identify unmet needs, barriers to progression and work with the young person and other agencies to find solutions.
To adopt evidence-based practice in the work undertaken with young people. This includes empowering young people and their family members/carers to become more resilient and independent through a basic understanding of the whole family working approach.
Liaison with other agencies: Signpost and refer to other appropriate agencies when wider needs have been identified.
Organise and attend multiagency meetings: In addition to attending multiagency meetings (team around the school meetings) also engage in strategic meetings to support improved outcomes for young people
To liaise and maintain contact with the professionals involved with a child, young person or family, including the effective sharing of relevant information pertaining to the progress of work or concerns.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
* NVQ level 3 (or equivalent)
* Significant experience of working with children, young people and families who are vulnerable or from a hard to reach group, in either case work or group work situations, supporting them to achieve educational related outcomes.
* Experience of developing and delivering training and group work.
* Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and an understanding of, and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
* Excellent communication and engagement skills, good planning and organisational skills. Good IT skills including the ability to use word processing packages and database management systems, and an ability to work to deadlines.
* Possession of a valid driving licence, access to a vehicle, and relevant insurances. However, reasonable adjustments will be considered for an applicant with a disability.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Barbara Beyst, Team Manager
Telephone: 0116 305 4088
Email: barbara.beyst@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
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