The project aims to make a positive contribution to the Council's wider aims by helping to minimise and manage the risks posed by young people engaging in activities related to drugs, alcohol, child sexual exploitation, criminal behaviour, gangs, and radicalisation, and to keep young people from coming into care, by supporting them to live safely with their families.
They work with young people at risk of gang exploitation or child sexual exploitation, substance misuse or criminal or anti-social behaviour, those who have been excluded from school or violent towards other people in the home, or those who have been subject to missing episodes.
The primary aims of the team are to work with 11-25yr olds to help them to exert more positive control over their lives and to live safely as they progress towards adulthood. The team is a multi-disciplinary team, working towards supporting young people and their families and ensuring they are safeguarded.
This role will involve:
- building a trusting relationship with the children and providing 1-1 support and a worker who can offer the support that they need, when they need it, in the way that they need it.
- providing consistency of support to the young person, even if their situation changes (e.g., by moving into/ out of care; changing accommodation), until stability or permanence is achieved.
- work to build resilience, self-esteem and an understanding of their strengths and needs.
- evidence-based intervention approaches, such as solution-focused approaches and motivational interviewing.
- an over-arching approach informed by restorative practice.
- work to identify previously unmet needs in young people who may have previously “slipped through the net” or who services have previously failed to reach.
- work structured and underpinned by a trauma-informed practice (The Trauma Recovery Model) and Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework.
- interventions to promote positive engagement, positive peer relationships, and development of life skills.
- excellent communication skills and muti agency working.
Barnardo's is currently looking to fill a permanent Project Worker 2 post, for 37 hours per week. The worker will be co-located within Wolverhampton Children's Services as a key worker within a multi-disciplinary team. There are a team of 5 key workers currently, including two other Barnardo's PW2 posts. They will use WCC systems (recording, policy, management) alongside employment and line management support from Barnardo's.
The service is commissioned until May 2025.
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