Young Persons Worker

GlasgowCity,Glasgow
Circa £19,000 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 Worker 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 Worker, 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.

• Maintaining effective working relationships and channels of communications with colleagues and with children, young people and families and where necessary encourage and promote involvement to achieve positive outcomes.

• Being alert to child protection and safeguarding issues and inform appropriate line managers of concerns in line with safeguarding policies and procedures

Attending and actively participate in relevant multi-agency meetings.

• Being responsible for organising achievement of work objectives on a daily basis, including both pre and forward planning.

• Retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture case details, outputs and outcomes as necessary and to produce written reports and present these as necessary.

What You’ll Bring:

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

• SVQ2 Health and Social Care, or equivalent.

• Experience of working in a health, early years or social care setting.

• The ability to work as part of a team or as an individual to deliver a frontline service.

• Experience of preparing clear and concise file notes and inputting information into office systems.

• Previous Experience of preparing, organising, reviewing and delivering individual and or group work.

• 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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