Project Leader – Young People Services (Clevedon)

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Overview

Are you interested in supporting children and young people to gain new experiences within their community and develop their independence?

This is an exciting opportunity to lead on developing pathways to adulthood, researching and exploring choice within the local market. Creating links and engaging with organisations and activity providers in the community. You will be involved in planning support for new referrals and ensuring that each person has a person-centred transition plan to take them into adulthood. We support up to 25 individuals between the ages of 14 and 25.

We provide a range of flexible benefits as well as training and support to help you develop your career.

About The Role

You’ll promote skills, knowledge and wellbeing by providing excellent support to young people that enables them to achieve individual outcomes and have a varied selection of interests and relationships. This will include things like building social skills, enjoying clubs and other activities. You’ll also develop a programme of activities build around the persons preferences and needs, you will coordinate activities ensuring the people we support are working towards achieving their outcomes. Some of the individuals communicate through their behaviours.

You’ll provide leadership and day-to-day support to your team of support workers through coaching, performance management.

With a dynamic flexible approach, As some of your work will be directly supporting individuals the role includes some weekend and evening shifts.

About You

You’ll ideally have experience of working with young people. You can you cope under pressure and support young people who communicate through their behaviours. You’ll have level 3 Maths and level 1 English qualifications (or able to demonstrate this capacity through assessment) and a Diploma in Health and Social Care is desirable.

You’re considerate, committed and respect people’s differences. Empathetic, you adapt your approach to individuals’ needs, have good communication skills and a positive, patient approach. You come up with creative solutions to overcome challenges and have a ‘can-do’ attitude.

It’s essential that you have a full driving licence and be willing to use your own vehicle on business – we’ll pay mileage expenses for this.

View the detailed Job Profile.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure with Adults’ and Children’s barred list for Children Services.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

Coronavirus Update

In-line with the Government and Public Health England guidelines, we have taken appropriate measures in our recruitment process to protect our staff, candidates and the people we support during the coronavirus outbreak.

When you join Brandon, you’ll need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to help protect the people we support, your colleagues and yourself. If you have not already had your vaccination, we can arrange this for you when you start working for us. If you do not wish to be vaccinated, we’ll explore the reasons with you, and this may impact on whether we can offer you employment.