Children and Young People's Group Facilitator - Salford, United Kingdom - Trafford Domestic Abuse Services

Trafford Domestic Abuse Services

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Title:
Children and Young People's Group Facilitator

Area:
CYP Service Salford and Trafford

Reporting to:
Salford CYP Team Leader

All paid members of staff are accountable to the CEO, and ultimately the _
Trustees of TDAS_

Place of work:
Based across Salford and Trafford

Hours of Work 2 5 h o u rs per week

Salary/scale:
Starting £17,485 (£25,878 FTE)

Background

Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS) is a Quality accredited, registered charity offering support to individuals and families who are affected by domestic abuse since 1990.

We support families who live/work in the Trafford area and also provide IDVA and Children and
Young People (CYP) support services in Salford. We provide both intervention and prevention services and work in partnership with other voluntary organisations to support families across
Greater Manchester.

TDAS Values

Innovative:
introduce new ideas, are creative and foreword thinking.

Collaborative:
work in partnership with key stakeholders to enable people to achieve a defined & common purpose

Openness:
create an open culture, provide transparent reporting, good fundraising and governance.

Person centred:
provide coordinated, personalized and enabling services to everyone

Empowering:

empower our service users to become stronger, more confident, being aware of their rights and privileges and live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

Purpose of the role

To deliver our specialist Children and Young People's project in the Community to a group of children who have or currently are living with domestic abuse and suffering the traumatic effects of such.

The CYP group facilitator will provide a trauma informed support service to support children in the local community and deliver specialist domestic abuse workshops and programmes in school and community settings.

Additionally they will liaise with schools across the city to our services and deliver training around domestic abuse to professionals.

Main Duties

Access, organise and deliver the appropriate trauma informed services to meet the needs of the children/ young people and their families.
Pro-actively engage Salford and Trafford schools and community groups in the TDAS programmes and training offer; attending regular meetings to promote service and make new partnerships.
Organise and facilitate TDAS R'Space programmes for CYP who have or are living in a domestic abuse household in both group and 1-1 sessions.
Organise and facilitate TDAS SOSN programmes in school and community settings.
Deliver Healthy Relationship Workshops to young people in high school and community settings.
To deliver TDAS professionals training and lunch and learns.
To deliver training to teachers and professionals around the impact of domestic abuse on YP, how to deal with disclosures and how to offer trauma informed support.
To support Salford and Trafford Schools with operation encompass notification system; create clear referral pathways for schools into TDAS services.
To keep individual recordings which are factual, accurate and up to date of the CYP who attend the TDAS R'Space and SOSN Programme.
To obtain, record and report outcomes for the service through the use of attendance sheets, evaluation forms and observations.
To measure and record outcomes and outputs of programme and workshop delivery and complete programme reports to send to the CYP Team Leader.
Liaise and work in conjunction with key agencies ensuring that multi-agency work is undertaken as part of the process involved in the assessment and delivery of services provided to children and young people.
Liaise with LGBT, diverse communities and other hard to reach groups to imbed inclusion and ensure equality and diversity.
To complete internal referrals to other areas of the CYP support service to meet the needs of the child or young person.
To complete external referrals to appropriate services to meet the needs of the child or young person.
Access regular feedback from service users to ensure the continued improvement of services and support offered to children and young people by TDAS.
To plan and manage own workload working on own initiative, often in times of crisis
Provide an environment for children/young people in which their physical, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing is promoted.
To be aware of, implement and keep up to date with Child Protection/Safeguarding

Procedures in accordance with TDAS and Trafford safeguarding Partnership
Protection/Safeguarding policies and procedures.

Work in partnership with children, young people, families, staff, statutory, voluntary and community organisations to promote the welfare and wellbeing of all children and young people living in the Community.
Provide a welcoming, safe, stimulating and inclusive environment in which children/young people can be supported, enjoy t