Salary: £12.60 per hour, £1758 island allowance per annum
Location: Stornoway,
Contract/Hours: Casual 0 hour contract – Evening and Weekend shifts
Benefits:
* 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
* Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
The Outreach Support Worker will work within our ADP Service in Street work and our weekly Youth Club. You would be working mainly with teenagers to help them stay safe and support them to make positive choices. Street work is run in the evening either Friday or Saturday and is a combination of evening support in community for young people who are out and about in Stornoway as well as supporting participation in planned activities to redirect young people to make healthier use of their time while building self-esteem and confidence. The Outreach Support Worker could also work at our weekly youth club based in the Bridge Centre on Friday nights and will work with young people to encourage them to engage in activities to help build positive and safe relationships with the community. There are also opportunities to support Children, young people, who have additional support needs, during the week or on a Saturday. You will support them to participate in activities, have time out in the community and which gives the parents/carers time off from caring. In these roles you will help young people by building a trusting relationship by acting as supportive adult, offering advice and information on health, wellbeing, relationships, work/educational attainment and encouraging participation. Working within Action for Children you will benefit from the great training opportunities we have available as well as gaining professional qualifications.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
* Provide a high-quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
* Deliver interventions to children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting, with appropriate direction.
* Maintain 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.
* Be alert to child protection and safeguarding issues and inform appropriate line managers of concerns in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
Let's talk about you
* SVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a related field. (Youth work/mental health etc.).
* Experience of working in a health, early years or social care setting.
* Experience of working as part of a team or as an individual to deliver a frontline service.
* Ability to keep children and young people as the focus of all work and ensure the child's feelings and wishes are represented in meetings and record keeping.
* Ability to engage and work with children, young people and their families, demonstrating a range of communication skills i.e. written, verbal applied in a variety of formats and situations.
Good to know
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Talent Pool
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Contact: Jessica Jarvis email us at quoting reference 12667
Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
[For Children Service roles only: Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.]
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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Job Description
See below for further information about working with us:
Action for Children Employee Benefits
AfC Commitment Statement