[ref. i1077524] Cannock - Young Person Worker

Job overview

This post will be specifically to work alongside the YOS team

What You'll Do:

• Deliver tailored, young person-centered interventions to help reduce risks, increase resilience, and achieve positive outcomes.
• Manage a caseload of young people referred from diverse pathways, including health, social care, education, and criminal justice.
• Work flexibly in the community and multi-agency settings on an outreach basis to meet the needs of young people and their families.
• Facilitate drop-in and group sessions to engage harder-to-reach young people.
• Use a solution-focused approach to manage crises with resilience and compassion.
• Promote recovery and positive outcomes for young people and their families

Join us and make a lasting difference in young lives!

A full driving licence and willing to travel essential

• To promote a strength- based approach with young people to empower change, to reduce risk and build resilience.
• To support and build relationships with 10- to 25-year-olds, and their families, who have a variety of needs related to substance misuse, either their own substance use or somebody else’s.
• Hold a caseload of young people and complete all recording and case management administration for your caseload accurately and promptly, adhering to GDPR and Data protection policies.
• Develop co-produced, outcome focused support plans that reflect each participant’s personal strengths and goals. Support plans will be holistic, covering all aspects of the young person’s wellbeing. This will include the engagement of parent/carers, and family members where appropriate.
• To work as part of a multi-agency team delivering interventions to safeguard children and vulnerable adults at risk and to reduce drug and alcohol related harm to young people, families, and communities.
• To provide information and advice to colleagues regarding the risk and protective factors surrounding young people with complex needs.

Working for our organisation

We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.

We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:

• To engage young people in a variety of interventions aimed at increasing choice and control in their lives, using a young person centred, assertive outreach approach.
• Providing screening, strength-based assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated and outcome focussed care planning, aftercare support, and onward transition to other services as required.
• Identifying risk, completing, reviewing, and following risk management plans where risk to lone work might be a factor for consideration. This can include risk of aggression, risk from peers, weapons, intoxication, and family crisis.
• Planning of your own diary to manage caseload and meet the needs of young people and ensure that timeframes are adhered to for case records and report deadlines.
• Ensure that all adult and children’s safeguarding issues are dealt with in line with Staffordshire’s safeguarding policies and organisation policies and procedures. This may involve supporting and educating family members, making safeguarding referrals to the local authority, and participating in all relevant multi-agency meetings.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies or equivalent experience

Experience

• Demonstrate experience and understanding of working with young people with complex needs
• Experience of completing risk assessments
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to promote service user involvement
• Case management experience & the ability to work under pressure
• Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams with a proven ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries
• Experience of working with techniques such as CBT, Motivational interviewing, and Solution focused therapy

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of drugs including alcohol and their effects
• A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction approaches to working with young drug users
• Ability to work with drug/alcohol users in a community environment

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to positive outcomes for children, young people, and families
• Reliable and punctual