Ambition Case Worker

The Ambition Case Worker has the lead responsibility for ensuring the inclusion of the identified marginalised young person within locality and cross locality youth work to reduce negative outcome. The Ambition Case Worker will liaise with, support, and work collaboratively with a range of agencies to ensure a holistic approach to embedding children and young people’s participation in service delivery.

DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

· To identify needs, establish contact and build sustainable working relationships with identified young people to encourage and motivate participation in existing and new curriculum led youth work programmes. Identified groups include Looked after Children (LAC) and Care Leavers, Young People with Learning Difficulties (SEN), Young Carers and young people identified by the community of being at risk.

· Lead the case management of the cohort of young people with the team to ensure we are working with multi agency, that have been identified in the Southwark Vanguard and beyond.

· To ensure the effective, ethical and meaningful involvement of young people to inform service planning, policy development and delivery of single and multiagency services.

· Operating as part of a team around the family, ensuring work undertaken is reflected in the personal development plan for the young person. As well as working with other professionals towards the agreed common goals, updating the lead professional for a case on involvement on a regular/agreed basis and attending identified Vanguard meetings to ensure work is well co-ordinated.

· Review and update development plan/assessment where there is no child protection concerns but where support is clearly needed, considering the needs and strengths of all family members with multi agency support.

· Participate in the gathering of information to inform in depth assessment of both the young person and family needs.

· Using ACN Methodology to enhance wider engagement of young people where targeted young person lives and to better understand the community contextually. This will help to identify further support needed in wider community.

· To plan, deliver, manage, and maintain a range of high-quality programmes of activities/ projects including those leading to accredited and recorded learning, services and facilities with young people. This will sometimes require securing external grant funding, and the programmes will need to link with wider youth services in the community.

· Ensure that youth work programmes are delivered in a planned, systematic, and co-ordinated approach and undertake quality assurance processes. Contribute to area/locality plans, accreditation, and recorded learning targets by ensuring management information is accurate and recorded in a timely way

· Ensure the promotion and publicity of the activities / programmes to the wider community as well as to the key regular users of the service.

· Ensure that the participation work programme is delivered in a planned, systematic, and co-ordinated approach, ensuring integrated quality assurance processes are integral to any work undertaken. Ensure the promotion, publicity, and feedback of the activities/programmes to children and young people accessing services, elected members, senior officers and the wider community.

· Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other relevant agencies involved in the provision of Southwark Vanguard services to support young people especially schools.

· Attend and represent the locality team at meetings including relevant multi-agency groups and events.

· Liaise closely with relevant teams and workers in targeted areas of work within ACN and Establish pathways and opportunities for young people in the targeted group.