Children and Young Person's Worker

The Children and Young Person’s Worker will work within a multi-agency system to provide a trauma informed, proactive, person centered service for young people and their families who have experienced domestic abuse, empowering choice through informed decision making.

Our Education and Recovery Team brings together dynamic, passionate and committed individuals who share a common focus on delivering high quality, person-centered and trauma informed support to children and young people. The team have a responsibility to work with multi-agency partners, building awareness and understanding of domestic abuse.

Key elements of the role include:

• Providing practical and emotional support and outreach to children and young people.
• Risk assessing and helping to keep young people safe through safety planning.
• Ensuring the voice of children and young people informs every stage of our support provision.
• Delivering educational, time-bound, sessions.
• Enabling children and young people to access statutory and other services where appropriate.
• Engaging with and supporting the MARAC (Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference) and MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub) process, to ensure that the voice of victims is heard.
• Managing a caseload and working proactively to support children and young people and their families.
• Facilitating early intervention.
• Raising awareness of children and young people’s needs who have been impacted by domestic abuse.
• Working with multi-agency partners and the wider FearFree service provision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a high-quality, person centred, trauma informed service and empowerment to those who need it.
• Effectively manage a caseload of Children and Young People (CYP).
• Completing initial assessments of CYP’s needs.
• Collaboratively develop support plans with CYP to meet their needs.
• Assess and managing risks to services users, colleagues, and self.
• Work with multi-agency partners to meet service users’ needs.
• Have an understanding of multi-agency partners services.
• Work with schools and education establishments to ensure support offered is appropriate, planned and coordinated.
• Uphold, promote and work within safeguarding principles and practice.
• Support children and young people to develop an increased understanding of the impact of their experiences relating to domestic abuse.
• Respond to crises with a focus on children and young people’s wellbeing and safeguarding.
• Support the development of self-awareness, confidence and participation of children and young people.
• Support children and young people’s participation in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services.
• Ensure resources and services meet children and young people’s specific needs.
• Support the development of services and resources.
• To understand and work effectively within a multi-agency framework, consisting of the MARAC and local partnership responses to domestic abuse, in order to reduce the risk for service users and their families.
• Empower service users to make decisions about their life through advocacy and providing information.
• To recognise, respect and address the needs of service users who face barriers when seeking help to access the service, including those from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, LGBT communities, disabled people, those with complex needs and other groups which services have found difficult to reach.
• Accompany service users, when needed, to other relevant agencies and support them in their interactions with these agencies.
• To work alongside colleagues to deliver a whole family approach, including colleagues in other teams and locations.
• Be proactive with your line manager to carry out periodic case reviews.
• Help maintain accurate and confidential case management records and contribute to monitoring information for the service.
• Attend children’s social care meetings as required, including Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Team Around the Family and Strategy Discussions.

General Responsibilties:

• Remain up to date and concordant with organisational procedures, policies and professional code of conduct, upholding standards of best practice.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings.
• Contribute to effective team working with a flexible and pro-active approach, including cover for other team members’ holidays and sickness where required.
• Undertake agreed training and keep updated on changes in legislation, policy, and best practice.
• To support additional duties at your team managers discretion.

For a full job description/person specification and to apply, please follow the link provided on this website. The closing date for this role is Friday, 19th July 2024, though FearFree reserves the righ to close this vacancy earlier if sufficient, suitable candidates apply.

FearFree is committed to encouraging equality and diversity in the workplace.  We strive to be a diverse and inclusive place to work where we can all be ourselves and individual differences are recognised and valued.