non title Oldham, England
Job description
Title: Engagement Worker – Missing from Home and Youth Justice
Hours: 36
Salary: PSO3 £23,458.74 - £25,694.13 per annum
Reporting: Operational Manager
Contract: Fixed Term until 31st July 2024
We seek to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Engagement Worker to work with girls and young women who are risk of exploitation or involvement in violence through our “Getting our for Good” project. The girls will be between the ages of 14 and 21 and be resident in Oldham, Tameside, Bury and Rochdale as such, travel across these boroughs is required. You will support each girl for a 12 week period to engage in one to one mentoring and weekly group sessions to reduce risk and safeguard.
We value agile working so you will be working from our central Oldham office, home, and out in the community.
Our training, partnership links and excellent management support will help you to develop the skills and knowledge you need to further progress your career.
If you have the required qualification, experience, knowledge and skills, then we look forward to receiving your application.
If you are interested in applying for the vacancy, please visit https://positivesteps.formstack.com/forms/application_form to complete and submit your application. For further information please visit our website www.positive-steps.org.uk/workwithus or contact Claire Hudson on 0161 621 9400 or via email [email protected]
Closing Date: Friday 11th August 2023, midday
Selection: Thursday 17th August 2023
JOB PURPOSE
- To support children working with the Missing from Home and Youth Justice Service through the delivery of interventions to manage risk and safeguard children
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide activities and interventions for children who are reported missing from home and their families, to improve their safety and wellbeing
- Provide delegated case management activity for children and families working with Youth Justice Service to promote desistance and protect the public from harm, delivering holistic support to address a wide range of needs
- Providing interventions for children and their families working with Missing from Home and Youth Justice in line with relevant legislation, quality standards and best practice to safeguard the service
- Undertake accurate, timely recording using digital caseload management systems to meet contract requirements
- Maintain relationships with other professionals to improve outcomes for children
- Apply coproduction principles to ensure that the user’s voice is represented in service delivery
- Provide support to volunteers to effectively deliver services
- Apply the consistent application of all relevant policies and procedures including safeguarding, health & safety and equality & diversity to ensure a compliant service
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet service and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager
Key Relationships – Internal & External
- External – Youth, community and education providers
- Internal – Staff and volunteers
Person Specification
Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working with children in the field of youth justice/safeguarding services or a related field
- Demonstrable experience of developing productive and effective relationships with children
- Demonstrable experience of partnership working
- Demonstrable experience of communicating through verbal and written presentations
- Demonstrable experience in promoting diversity
Knowledge
- Awareness of Criminal Justice or Safeguarding Services
- Awareness of risk management, safeguarding legislation and guidance, implementation of Child Protection Procedures and the boundaries of professional relationships
- Awareness of adolescent development and the impact of trauma
- Understanding of Health & Safety legal requirements and best practice
Skills
- Developed skills in engaging,supporting and motivating children and families
- Primary communication and presentational skills Primary skills in creativity and original thinking with the ability to develop practical solutions to problems
- Primary inter-personal and team working skills
- Primary skills in Microsoft Office and database systems
- Primary skills in literacy and numeracy
Personal attributes
- Sound judgement and awareness of organisational and political sensitivities
- Sound professional and tactical judgement and the ability to establish priorities and principles
- Resilient and able to work independently as required
- Commitment to Positive Steps vision and values
Additional requirements
- Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of customers and organisation
- Able to travel throughout the region and at times the country
- Evening and weekend working required
- Enhanced DBS required
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 8 months
Salary: £23,458.71-£25,694.13 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Oldham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- working with children in youth justice/safeguarding: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oldham
