Youth, Attendance and Welfare Officer - Leigh, United Kingdom - The Westleigh School

Description

Youth, Attendance and Welfare Officers guide and support young people in their personal, social and educational development to help them reach their full potential.

They work in partnership with the school and multi-agencies to ensure that young people and their families are fully supported.

Responsible to organise and run community programmes aimed at young people aged between 11 and 25 and help them to explore and understand their ideas, values and beliefs, building their confidence and life skills so that they can make a successful transition to adulthood.

• The importance of building trust and rapport, and methods for achieving this.
• Professional relationship boundaries and the implications of these for youth workers.
• Communication styles and methods, including barriers to communication and ways to overcome these.
• Different models of youth work e.g. Outreach, Detached, Open access, Targeted, Social

• Theories of management and leadership e.g. interprofessional and interdisciplinary working.
• Human resources procedures, e.g. professional development, disciplinary, grievance.
• Youth work supervision models.
• The importance of staff development.
• Resource, financial and facilities management, including relevant legislation and regulations that need to be followed.
• National and local plans and strategies relevant to youth work and young people.
• Roles, remit and responsibilities of key stakeholders.
• Strategies to build and manage professional partnerships.
• Theories and models for programme planning, development, delivery and evaluation.
• Policies and strategies related to the national and local youth work curriculum.
• Contemporary models for impact and evaluation of youth work.
• Models for inclusive and active participation and barriers to participation.
• International, national and local factors impacting on young people's engagement in decision making, including legislation (e.g. UNCRC) and local and national participation strategies.
• Models to undertake appropriate situational needs analysis.
• Project management tools and processes, including assessing and managing risk.
• Evaluation and impact processes and strategies.
• Commissioning and funding processes.
• Theories, models and principles for reflective practice.
• The importance of critical reflection and continuous professional development for youth work practice
• The relationship between rights, responsibilities and power dynamics in professional youth work relationships and society.
• Cultural and community competency in good youth work practice.
• Principles of antioppressive and antidiscriminatory practice.
• Safeguarding legislation, government guidance and national framework regarding record keeping, disclosure management and reporting referrals to a designated safeguarding lead.
• Safer recruitment and staff management processes (including for volunteers).
• Boundaries of professional accountability and responsibility for self, staff and project leadership.
• Principles of child development and human growth applicable to behaviours likely to be observed in youth activities.

• Evaluate and utilise a range of styles of communication suited to the audience, e.g. verbal, nonverbal, written and electronic methods.
• Maintain professional boundaries in relationships with young people and colleagues.
• Select and use suitable youth work models for the needs of young people they are engaging with.
• Work in partnership with young people to develop suitable services.
• Utilise appropriate methods and tools for planning, monitoring and evaluating youth work.
• Complete, store and retain accurate administrative and financial records.
• Carry out regular supervision, staff development and appraisals (where appropriate) with colleagues.
• Utilise a range of sources of information to inform service development.
• Identify and work with appropriate partners to add value to work with young people, e.g.,

• Advocate for young people and youth work in policy and service development.
• Select and use appropriate methods and tools when planning youth work programmes and activities.
• Facilitate youth work programmes that support the learning and development of young people in line with the youth work curriculum.
• Evaluate, demonstrate and report on the impact of youth work.
• Provide a safe environment for young people to explore and challenge values, beliefs, ideas and issues.
• Create and evaluate effectiveness of inclusive and participatory learning environments.
• Support young people to plan, organise and deliver youthled activities an