Young Persons Practitioner (Glasgow)

Salary: Upto £27,600 per annum, pro rata

Location: Glasgow

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Part Time – 21 hours per week (Flexible over 3 days including some evenings and weekends)

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.

A bit about the role

Action for Children's Intervention Service is a voluntary service designed to improve the outcomes for the most vulnerable, dis-enfranchised children and young people aged 11-18 years who are involved in the criminal justice system and believed to be the victims of criminal exploitation.

The Intervention Service forms partnership with Glasgow Health, Social Care and Police Scotland as part of a multi-agency partnership strategy to intervene in a child or young person's life as early as possible to prevent the likelihood or impact of criminal exploitation.

The aim of the project is to identify and divert children and young people at risk of involvement in serious offending and criminal activity at the earliest opportunity. Offering suitable support and diversion opportunities to those identified as potentially being exploited or coerced to engage in criminal activity as an alternative pathway. Providing intensive 1:1 support to help equip the child or young person with the necessary skills and tools to make positive choices and to re-engage and sustain education, training, or employment.

We provide focused intervention work to allow the child or young person to maximise their true potential and to help them overcome personal and practical barriers that prevent them from making positive lifestyle choices. It is imperative we work alongside the family to provide support and address vulnerabilities to strengthen family relationships.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

Some key responsibilities of a Young Persons Practitioner role are;

· Managing a small caseload of young people

· Building relationships with the young person and families

· Liaising with partnerships agencies and ensuring effective communication.

· Identifying young persons needs, creating an individual care plan

· Supporting to access and re-engage in EET opportunities and pro social activities

· Delivering focus intervention work - criminal exploitation, gang violence, knife crime, substance misuse, positive choices and consequential thinking

Let's talk about you

· SVQ /Diploma Level 3 or equivalent qualification in early years and childcare, social care or related background.

· Experience of working with young people in social work or experience in criminal justice.

· Working within a multi-agency social care, early years or health environment and applying

safeguarding procedures

· Experience of managing cases, in accordance with agreed procedures and completing assessments,

planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes

· Ability to communicate effectively and engagingly and to maintain independent professional

relationships, boundaries

· Provide outreach support across Glasgow wide (Car mileage expenses reimbursed)

Good to know 

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

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.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.