Young People's Support Worker 2157 - London, United Kingdom - tower Hamlets

tower Hamlets
tower Hamlets
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Young People's Support Worker:


  • We believe that the best place for children is to be _
    _raised within their own families__, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. _In Tower Hamlets we are committed to _
    _building relationships and strengthening families__ by working _
    _with__ people in a compassionate and understanding way. _
  • We are _
    _ambitious__ for Tower Hamlets children and families and endeavour for every child and young person to be _
    _healthy, safe and successful__._
Tower Hamlets is a progressive, ambitious and diverse place to work.

We place children and families at the heart of everything that we do and are relentless in our pursuit of positive outcomes for all.


Our Better Together Practice Framework is based on the ideas and concepts which underpin Restorative Practice and draws from other strength-based approaches, such as Systemic and Trauma Informed Practice

Our C-Change approach
:

Connect, Curious, Community, Co-Produce, Collaborate, Check,** sets out "6 Cs " for our work with children, young people their parents and carers, and each other.

Your Role


The co-located Exploitation Service have an exciting opportunity to work directly with young people who are at risk of Harm outside of the home.

The purpose of the role is to provide support to a cohort of young people and their families at risk of exploitation and serious youth violence.

It is also to prevent offending and re-offending by young people by providing an effective service to young people and their carers.

Furthermore, to raise awareness with children, families, communities and professionals around the issues of exploitation, serious youth Violence and associated risks.

You will be working within multi-agency Exploitation Team where we are developing an innovative harm outside the home approach to issues around exploitation, missing and serious youth violence.

You will need good people skills and experience of engaging young people effectively.

You will have a caring nature and an ability to work creatively in an effort to engage children who are at risk of harm outside of the home.

You will be able to work within a team approach and with other professionals and local organisations to identify and address the issues that young people face as a result of exploitation and serious youth violence, this will be underpinned by empowering, anti-oppressive, trauma informed and culturally competent practice (training will be provided for this).


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