Youth Practitioner - Next Generation

To provide one-to-one support to young people and young adults who have complex need and are at risk of youth violence and criminality. To provide youth mentoring for young people/adults, providing tailored and structured support enabling service users to navigate challenges, and develop life skills, supporting the reduction in offending behaviours. To support young people into education, employment and diversionary/physical activity. To work with the team to generate systemic change; influencing systems that create additional barriers to the lives of young people and young adults. Key Activities:

• To work with young people/young adults on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
• To work co-operatively with children's and adult services (social care/criminal justice services and education), health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children, young people and young adults.
• To work with young people/young adults who are deemed high risk of perpetrating and /or becoming a victim of criminality and youth violence.
• To contribute to Service development.
• To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• To be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery.
• To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to report writing and producing and keeping management information.
• To promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the working environment
• To carry out consultation with young people/young adults to influence decision-making processes that affect their lives and shape the service that they receive.
  
  The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.
Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more. The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.