790 Young Persons jobs in the United Kingdom

Opus People Solutions on beahlf of Suffolk County Council have an exciting opportunity for a Young Persons Advisor to join their Leaving Care and USAC Team

Job Title: Young Persons Advisor
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: 14.82 - 19.73
Location: Ipswich IP1 2DH
Remote/Office based: Hybrid - x2 days working from home

The Role:

This specialist UASC team part of the Leaving Care and UASC service have responsibility for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Leaving Care Asylum Seekers and Refugees.

This role will involve working with over 18-year-old Care Leavers who will need ongoing support with their housing, training/employment and Asylum process. You will hold case responsibility for these young adults and carry out Pathway Plans until at least their 21st birthday.

Responsibilities:

• Prioritise the needs of vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Refugees until early adulthood.
• Undertake Regular welfare visits to manage and assess risk and appropriate housing conditions/support with eviction notices etc.
• Chair Pathway Review Meetings using the Triple Planning process.
• Support the Care Leaver to Home Office appointments relating their Asylum and/or Appeal process.
• Help Care Leavers with employment and education complications.
• Support Care Leavers with finances/benefits and budgeting requirements.
• Have oversight and management of their Setting Up Home Allowance and offer advice and guidance to support care leavers to live independently in their community.
• Advocate on behalf of care leavers to other agencies.
• Assist to develop positive relationships with their peers.
• Undertake Humans Rights Assessments if/when they are Appeals Rights Exhausted and have no recourse to public funds.
• Network with Asylum/Refugee charity and organisations.
• The team is based in Ipswich and works across the county and outside of the county when required, so the ability to travel independently is essential.

If you thrive to make a difference and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.

We are collaborating with a Local Authority in their search for a Young Persons Advisor to provide support to their Care Leavers Team in Suffolk!

We are seeking inspired and innovative individuals who can empower care leavers, building on their strengths and assisting them in achieving personal growth and success.

This is initially a 3-6 month agency contract, with the possibility of extension on an ongoing basis.

These are full-time positions requiring a commitment of 37 hours per week.

Pay Rate: 14-19+ per hour. Higher rates can be negotiated for candidates with more experience.

Role Overview:

• Enhancing services provided to supported families and delivering positive outcomes for children.
• Assisting all children and families in developing meaningful relationships with professionals.
• Facilitating optimal opportunities for personal development and achievement.
• Fostering a supportive environment that allows workers to thrive and contribute to improved outcomes for children and families.
• Implementing a new approach to social work by integrating Restorative Practice throughout the service.
• Ensuring low caseloads, embedded supervision, and supportive management.

Required Qualifications:

• NVQ Level 3 in Child Care and Education, NND, or qualifications in Health or Social Care.

About Spencer Clarke Group:

At Spencer Clarke Group, we take pride in connecting you with exceptional career opportunities. Our experienced consultants possess in-depth market knowledge and offer expert career guidance throughout your journey.

Benefits of joining us include:

• Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent job opportunities.
• Free DBS checks.
• Post-placement aftercare.
• Loyalty reward scheme and regular competitions for our agency professionals.

Additionally, we offer a leading referral scheme, where you can earn up to 250. If you know someone who may be interested in an exciting career opportunity, encourage them to email their CV to Sophie Payne at , ensuring they include your details as well.

Opus People Solutions on beahlf of Suffolk County Council have an exciting opportunity for a Young Persons Advisor to join their Leaving Care and USAC Team

Job Title: Young Persons Advisor
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: 14.82 - 19.73
Location: Ipswich IP1 2DH
Remote/Office based: Hybrid - x2 days working from home

The Role:

This specialist UASC team part of the Leaving Care and UASC service have responsibility for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Leaving Care Asylum Seekers and Refugees.

This role will involve working with over 18-year-old Care Leavers who will need ongoing support with their housing, training/employment and Asylum process. You will hold case responsibility for these young adults and carry out Pathway Plans until at least their 21st birthday.

Responsibilities:

• Prioritise the needs of vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Refugees until early adulthood.
• Undertake Regular welfare visits to manage and assess risk and appropriate housing conditions/support with eviction notices etc.
• Chair Pathway Review Meetings using the Triple Planning process.
• Support the Care Leaver to Home Office appointments relating their Asylum and/or Appeal process.
• Help Care Leavers with employment and education complications.
• Support Care Leavers with finances/benefits and budgeting requirements.
• Have oversight and management of their Setting Up Home Allowance and offer advice and guidance to support care leavers to live independently in their community.
• Advocate on behalf of care leavers to other agencies.
• Assist to develop positive relationships with their peers.
• Undertake Humans Rights Assessments if/when they are Appeals Rights Exhausted and have no recourse to public funds.
• Network with Asylum/Refugee charity and organisations.
• The team is based in Ipswich and works across the county and outside of the county when required, so the ability to travel independently is essential.

If you thrive to make a difference and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.

Teaching Assistant - Young Offenders 

Huddersfield Pupil Referral Unit

£89 - £110 (per day dependant on experience)

Salary is dependant on experience, training or qualifications. The minimum experience, training or qualifications required for this position is a minimum of 2 months relevant experience working with children, young people or adults.

Contract start date : Immediate, full time Monday to Friday, temporary

The School and Role

Vision for Education Huddersfield specialist SEND department are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant - Young Offenders to work with young people aged between 11 and 17 within a specialist school setting.

This Teaching Assistant - Young Offenders role is to support vulnerable young learners who are no longer in mainstream education (school based setting). The successful Teaching Assistant will be able to build relationships quickly and have a none judgemental mindset.

Requirements:

To be considered for the Teaching Assistant - Young Offenders role you must:

• Be able to adapt to certain situations that can arise.
• Have a genuine desire to become part of a committed team of school staff.
• Have Team Teach training or be willing to attend the FREE course held by Vision.
• Experience working with Special Educational Needs.

Vision for Education is committed to safeguarding children and young people. We take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff we register will undertake thorough interviewing and referencing checks and hold, or be prepared to undergo, an Enhanced DBS check that must be registered on the Update Service.

About Vision for Education

We are a market-leading education supply agency committed to the development of young people. With branches across the country, we are an employer of choice for high quality educators. 

We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

What Vision for Education Offer

As a valued employee of Vision for Education and as a Teaching Assistant, you will receive:

• Excellent daily rates paid using the PAYE system. 
• Guaranteed pay scheme (subject to availability). 
• Social and networking events.
• Pension contributions. 
• CPD to help with your professional development.
• Access to a dedicated consultant.

The Edwin Group is a Top 10 UK-employer in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. Rated as 'Excellent' by our staff in all categories and recognised as having industry leading and world-class levels of employee engagement across the Group.

How to Apply

Apply today via this website if you have a passion for helping young individuals who may be disadvantaged, or for more information about this role / the experience that is required, please contact our Huddersfield SEND team today at Vision for Education.

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The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis covering early (8AM - 3:30PM) and late (3PM - 10:30PM) shifts. Temporary cover is required for approximately 2 - 3 months, with the possibility of extension.

In this position, you will be required to:
- Hold a caseload of 4 young people and undertake regular key working sessions resulting in co-produced support and safety plans that are SMART and evidence progress
- Produce comprehensive and high quality risk assessments and risk management plans
- In conjunction with colleagues, comprehensively assess referrals to the project to ensure suitable young people can be accepted
- Provide a safe, welcoming and high-quality standard of accommodation, ensuring when young people move in they feel comfortable and welcomed, and are given information concerning the building and other local services
- Assess the needs of young people in order to identify appropriate move on accommodation
- Minimise risk to young people by identifying, reporting, and following up any safeguarding concerns and incidents
- Work with social workers to enable young people to move back home if appropriate, or to support young people to identify opportunities for move on to appropriate PRS, supported, shared or self-contained accommodation, and make appropriate referrals to those identified
- Support young people to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through the collection of rents and service charges and the minimisation of arrears and void loss
- Run activities and support young people to participate in activities to prepare them for independence and move through
- Provide support to young people who are ready to move into work, education, or training by assisting them to access suitable courses or placements
- Carry out Health & Safety duties

Please note: this role involves loneworking.

To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience of working with young people
- Knowledge of Ofsted's key principles for young people in supported accommodation and examples of how you can apply these principles in your work
- An understanding and experience of applying effective ways of working with young people, in particular YP's with mental health & attachment needs including emerging personality disorder & significant self-harm
- Experience of working in a trauma informed and attachment focused way and a good understanding of the principles of this practice, and how they can be related to risk and needs assessment, planning, goal setting and reviews with young people
- Experience of key working and support planning
- Experience of working with young people to develop life skills and support their involvement in meaningful activities
- A demonstrable aptitude for working with at-risk young adults in a residential setting
- Ability to demonstrate through practice how 'Every Child Matters' relates to the young people living in our accommodation
- Knowledge of welfare benefits for under 21's, rents and service charges
- An excellent level of numeracy and written communication to create letters, minutes & reports

Daytime Healthcare are working with an established Supported Accommodation provider for young people (mainly aged 16-18 age group). The supplier has two 4 bed homes in Brent and Harrow and they are seeking an experienced manager or deputy manager to manage both services. You must have experience within a ofstead regulated environment. Also you should have or be working towards a NVQ level 4 or 5 qualification.

The service users mainly have had issues with the fostering service.

Responsibilities include:-

• To manage and support an allocated caseload of young people aged 16+ by having key responsibility to ensure the provision and co-ordination of practical, personal, emotional, social and financial advice to enable a successful transition to adulthood.
• Assess the needs of young people by actively contributing to the assessment and preparation of the Pathway Plan to enable young people to achieve independent living.
• To oversee an allocated caseload of services and staff ensuring safe and high-quality service delivery in line with Ofsted National Minimum standards and Supported Accommodation Regulations.
• To ensure that services are prepared and ready for inspections with both announced and unannounced.

There is excellent growth potential and a great working environment on offer. You will be working between both home, so you have access to your own car is ideal.

This is mainly a Monday - Friday position with occasional on calls as required. The normal working hours are 9-5:30pm.

Apply today!

We are looking for passionate Childrens Support Workers who are available to work on a Temp to Perm basis.

As a Childrens Support Worker you will work as part of a team to deliver a high standard of care at all times and support the Young Persons emotional wellbeing. You recognise that the role is to help support service users maximise their choices, rights and decisions.

The successful candidate must have;

- Hold a full UK driving licence

- Level 3 in Health & Social Care/Children & Young People is great but not essential

- 6 months experience working in a similar setting

- Empathetic people person who is non-judgemental and calm

- Dedicated and committed with a “can-do” attitude

If you meet the above specification then please get in touch ASAP, the successful applicant will be rewarded with:

- Excellent rates of pay and additional supplements

- Flexible working hours

- Permanent position at the end of the process

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau.

SCR social care is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of vulnerable adults / children as a priority. This is reflected in our pre-employment checks and requirement to verify and check the identity and references of all applicants.

Velox Social Care are looking for dedicated Support Workers across the Devon area to provide quality, person-centred care to CYP (Children and Young people) who require structured care and support. We are committed to finding individuals who want to make a real difference to children’s lives - people that are passionate, committed and invest in all that they do to achieve their potential and support others to do so.

You will be supporting our young people to progress positively through receiving encouragement, understanding, care and patience. You will be required to record daily logs and liaise with colleagues, our dedicated Care Management Team and outside agencies.

We have a range of flexible shift options to choose from and are keen to speak with candidates who can work days/nights and ongoing block bookings.

Flexibility will be required for this role as the clients do require a mixture of long and short shift coverage.

In order to be considered for this role you must meet the following criteria:

• Right to Work in the UK
li>6 Months+ UK experience of working within a similar CYP setting
• 3 References: 2 x professional references, 1 x character
• In date PMVA or Team Teach certificate (if PMVA-trained, willing to undertake Team Teach training)
• Enhanced Child DBS, subscribed to the update service (or willing to get one)
• Relevant Qualifications (Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care Preferred )

Benefits of working with Velox Social Care:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Outstanding support from the industry’s best Care Management Team
< i>Weekly Pay, with excellent Pay rates

As a CYP Support Worker working with Velox Social Care, you will have your own dedicated Consultant to guide you through every aspect of the compliance and shift booking process.

If you meet our requirements & would like to apply for this exciting new opportunity - apply now!

*Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time. Applicants requiring sponsorship will not be shortlisted for this reason.*

Purus Healthcare is hiring Support Worker for Residential Care Homes!


Roles & Responsibilities :

Specialist care provider for young adults aged 16 - 24years with learning disabilities, and various mental health conditions including dementia, autism, schizophrenia and moderate challenging behaviour.

Skills :

Complex Learning Disabilities, Autism, Medication Training, Epilepsy, Mandatory Training, Children with Complex Disabilities Awareness

Requirements:

• International Passport

• Share Code/eVisa

• COS document (If you are a Skilled Worker visa holder) / Term Letter (If you are a Student Visa holder)

• English proficiency certificate (IELTS/TOFEL/MOI)

• Enhanced DBS (Updated services)

• Updated CV

• Moving and Handling Practical, Moving and Handling Theory, Challenging Behaviour, Mental Health Awareness, Medication Management Practical, Epilepsy Awareness, Understanding Learning Disability, Autism Awareness, Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), Learning Disability, Mandatory Training Certificate

• Bank Statement ( Account number and Sort code should be visible)

• Minimum Two Written References

• National Insurance Document/BRP Back Part where the NI Number is Visible

• A clear standard picture of yours (For Profile)

• Last 5 Years of Residential Address

• Next of Kin Name and Number

• Full UK Driving License (If any)