Participation Worker Crewe, England
Job description
We are looking for a Participation Worker who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people and empowers them to have voice, who is creative, innovative, and organised, who can work as part of a team as well as under their own initiative.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Brighter Future
Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)
We are recruiting a Participation Worker to join our Youth Support Service.
The vision for our Youth Support Service is that all young people can enjoy their lives, reach their full potential and make a good transition to adulthood and have their voices heard.
The role of the Participation Worker is to work across Cheshire East Children’s Services to deliver sessions of targeted youth voice work to children and young people aged 0-19 years ( 25 years SEND and Care Leavers). This will be delivered through engagement programmes during the day and in the evening project based work and youth forum groups.
We are looking for a Participation Worker who is passionate about capturing the voice of children and their lived experience. Who wants to improve the lives of young people, who is creative, innovative, and organised, who can work as part of a team as well as under their own initiative. The role includes working with partners and support children and young people on our Children Trust Board, Members of Youth Parliament, and deliver on the Children and Young Peoples Plan.
You will lead on the planning, delivery and evaluation targeted participation sessions. The role will include assessing young people’s needs, measuring impact, evidencing outcomes and recording on systems.
You will be required to complete and implement risk assessments in line with Health & Safety and Safeguarding procedures.
The role includes working daytime, evenings and very occasional weekends.
For further information please contact Kay McIntrye via email; [email protected]
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
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