Young Persons Worker - Part Time (Ref: 0027ZD)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	01 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	£23,821.00 i £25,000.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£23821.00 - £25000.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	30 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5BY
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	B0236-25-0282

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Join us as a Young Persons Worker in Stoke-on-Trent. Do you have a great rapport with young people? Are you passionate about educating and supporting them to navigate their way through the many issues they face today? If so, this job could be exactly what you're looking for.... Our Young Persons Worker teams offer vital support, training, and education to young people in their locality. They work with other agencies and professionals to safeguard their young clients, working with their families too where appropriate. The work can be challenging but it's always rewarding and at With You, you'll be part of an amazing team making a real difference to people's lives. As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. The closing date for applications is 22nd July 2025. Please note: This role may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. As an organisation we do not have a sponsorship license and are unable to provide sponsorship to live and work in the UK. As such candidates are required to hold the right to work in the UK for the duration of the contract you are applying for. As a Young Persons Worker, you'll be supporting a caseload of young people who are experiencing difficulties with substance misuse. You'll work with them to access their needs, develop care plans, deliver a variety of treatments and/or refer them to other specialist support when needed. You'll also be proactively engaging with young people to provide them with the support, training, education and guidance they need to better understand the implication of the situations they may face and the decision they may take. This is a part time role working 22.5 hours per week (0.6FTE). Essential Skills To be able to do this job successfully, you will have: OCN/NVQ level 3 or equivalent or willing to achieve this within 12 months experience of managing a caseload of young people with complex needs sound knowledge of safeguarding and the ability to put safeguarding processes into practice evidence of multi-agency working evidence of continuous professional development excellent relationship building skills with a range of people from a wide variety of backgrounds the ability to work effectively on your own and as part of a team, sharing your skills knowledge and experience good organisational skills to be able to manage your time effectively, prioritising your work and being able to cope with the pressure of competing demands the ability to record and maintain accurate case details and in a timely manner effective IT skills, able to use different packages and digital media access to a vehicle and a full UK driving licence As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans. As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. WithYou is also a Disability Confident Employer, and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role. If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best. Benefits 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave 2 days paid volunteer leave per year Auto-enrollment into We Are With You's pension scheme Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period