Young Persons Practioner

GlasgowCity,Glasgow
Circa £21,700 per annum

Full Time 37 hours a week Fixed Term until December 2022 ( high possibility of extension)

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days pro rata PLUS public holidays flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career’s portal.

Closing Date: Midnight on 17th March We may close the role earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

We’re thrilled that you’re considering a career with Action for Children. Spare us five minutes, and we’ll tell you what you need to know…

About Us

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

The role

Our Glasgow Secondary Schools Counselling and Blues Service is looking for a Young Persons Practitioner to help deliver high-quality, school based professional counselling and group work service in Glasgow. The service will, through delivery of evidence- based programmes and counselling, provide effective intervention, management of cases and assessment of needs, ensure safe care and agreed positive outcomes with secondary school children aged 12-18yrs. Our service will cover all secondary schools in Glasgow City Council (30+)

As aYoung Persons Practitioner, you’ll be:

• Providing a high-quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.

• Delivering complex and specialist interventions with children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting.

Providing lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks.

• Attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review.

• Taking responsibility for day to day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.

Establishing and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies

Retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture information and to produce written reports and present these as necessary.

Reviewing and evaluating service provision with others, ensuring continued improvements are made.

What You’ll Bring:

Ourjob description outlines therequirementsof the role but the ‘must-haves’ are

• SVQ3 Health and Social Care, or equivalent.

• Previous Experience working within a multi-agency social care, schools, youth work or health environment and applying safeguarding procedures.

• Experience of managing cases, in accordance with agreed procedures and completing assessments, planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes.

• The ability to communicate effectively and engagingly and to maintain independent professional relationships, boundaries

• Working knowledge of an outcome-based approach to planning, delivering and reviewing services.

• Demonstrable prioritising and organising skills.

• Car driver desirable.

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. A diverse workforce enriches the lives of the children and young people we work with and we welcome applications from everyone. We value and celebrate our differences and as an inclusive workplace we want everyone to be themselves.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

We can’t wait to hear from you – stay safe and happy.

Talent Pool: We’d like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up but do let us know if you’d rather we didn’t.

Contact: anne-marie.wilson@actionforchildren.org.uk in our recruitment team who will be happy to support with your application.

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