Overview
Are you hardworking, committed, and passionate about helping young people and their families improve their lives and avoid family breakdown? Do you have multiple skills? We have an exciting opportunity in the Adolescent Early Help South 1 unit, covering Dover, Deal and Folkestone and Hythe Districts. The Integrated Adolescent Service has been formed in recognition that adolescents should be given a bespoke offer of support. We want professionals capable of bringing understanding and emotional intelligence to everything they do. The service promotes a practice philosophy which seeks to empower young people and their families, building on individual strengths, and helping them to develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to the difficulties they face.
Your role as an Adolescent Early Help Worker will involve undertaking assessments and providing intensive support to empower young people and their families to develop effective long-term solutions to manage their family relationships and develop strategies to overcome the risks that adolescents face during this phase of their life.
You will play a vital role in Kent's Out of Court Resolutions, using the Child First Approach. You will assess children who have caused harm to others and offer support to help prevent them becoming first time entrants into the Criminal Justice System. You will write a Prevention Diversion Assessment Toolkit (PDAT) which will help a multi-disciplinary team decide on an outcome for a child to deter them from further harmful behaviours, through planned supportive work identified by the child and the family themselves.
This is an exciting time as you will be able to be part of shaping the future service and to contribute towards its longer term development.
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