The Position
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.
Responsibilities
**About the ** Role :
Action for Children Guernsey provides a broad range of unique and innovative services for young people aged 13-25 who are experiencing difficulties in relation to accommodation, employment and seeks to specifically address drug and alcohol issues preventatively, directly and by signposting on to more specialist services.
We are looking for a Young Person's Practitioner who will join our dedicated and passionate team. You will provide practical and therapeutic support to the young people within our service working across our service but focussing mainly on young people who are experiencing difficulties with substance use or preventing use for young people at risk of developing those difficulties.
You will need to identify young people's needs and develop a plan with the young person to help them develop the confidence and ability to live independently. You will also attend multi-agency support meetings, deal with complex caseloads, and help young people manage other areas of their lives to survive in the wider community.
You will be required to take part in an (an additional payment is provided) and occasionally work outside of normal working hours.
You ** will ** make a difference by:
- Building and developing positive working relationships with young people, their families and partner agencies.
- Being solution focused and building on strengths.
- Taking part in multi-agencies meetings to support the young people.
- Evidencing outcomes for the young people.
- Ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding.
- Keeping the young people at the centre of everything that we do.
Experience
Our** job description for the ** Young Person's Practitioner ** ** outlines the requirements of the role but the ** ‘must-haves' ** are:
- Previous experience working in Social Care, Early Years or Health environment and experience of Safeguarding.
- Experience of managing cases, in accordance with agreed procedures and completing assessments, planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes.
- Full driving licence with access to own transport essential.
- Experience of working with client groups and ability to build relationships with families, groups, and professionals.
- Willingness to take part in an on-call rota.
- A Guernsey Right to Work.
Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
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.
Application Process: There are 5 sections for you to complete, Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration. Top Tip... Refer to the job description when writing your Supporting Statement.
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Benefits
Annual leave of 29 days 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.