A Career that's life-changing

Young Person's Practitioner

Salary, Circa £21,800

Permanent - Full Time 37 hours

How Action for Children works

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 301,000 children, young people and their families - but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in.

The role

Dundee Youth Housing Support provides a diverse range of prevention and support services to young homeless people, care experienced young people and young people with additional needs in the Dundee area. The mainstay of the service is to provide supported accommodation and outreach support for 16 to 21 year olds who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.

The service operates 24/7 providing a mixture of direct access and temporary accommodation for up to 33 young people across 3 sites. There is also an extensive outreach service. DYHS is currently supporting approximately 60 young people. You will be required to work a shift pattern that also very occasionally includes waking nights.

The difference

You'll significantly improve young people's lives:

By providing a high quality service to children, and young people, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
By delivering a complex and specialist interventions with children and young people on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting.
By providing lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks
By attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review
By being responsible for day to day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
By establishing and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies
By retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture information and to produce written reports and present these as necessary.
By reviewing and evaluating service provision with others, ensuring continued improvements are made.
By supervising, guiding or directing staff and volunteers where necessary.
By ensuring a safe and positive work and service environment is achieved through compliance with all safeguarding, safer recruitment, health and safety policy and procedure

The person

You'll need:

Knowledge and awareness of methods of prevention of homeless intervention.
Knowledge of the issues and barriers facing vulnerable young adults who may at times lead chaotic lives.
A driving License and use of a car
Essential - SVQ 3 in social care or willing to work towards
A knowledge of the issues and barriers facing homeless young people
Carry out night shift and/or sleep in duties if required
A knowledge of statutory and voluntary agencies
Experience in developing support plans

The rewards

Minimum 29 days' holiday (plus bank holidays)
Company pension scheme
Flexible working, including maternity, paternity and adoption packages
Season ticket travel loans
Discounts at major high street retailers.

Plus, there's a lot more besides.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity.

Action for Children is committed to safer recruitment practices, designed to protect the welfare of the children and young people using our services.

If you meet all the criteria and would like to proceed with your application, you'll be redirected to an application form on our website which should only take around 5 minutes to complete. Please have your CV handy to upload. As this job involves working around children, there are some specific questions we need to ask you as part of your application process. Thanks for taking the time to apply and we wish you the best of luck!

Please contact Dione Riach on 07384 836122 or on dione.riach@actionforchildren.org.uk for more information.

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