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.
- Vulnerable children in the UK need your
help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable
children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to
national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the
foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and
supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when
we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's
lives.
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 Edinburgh (Car mileage expenses reimbursed)