Job Summary
Contract Type:
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Working Pattern:
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Advert Start Date:
08/10/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 27/11/2024 12:00
Salary:
£26,000 - £27,000 depending upon experience
Job Category:
Schools - Support
Employment Location:
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Further Information
Zone West Link Worker
Salary £26,000 - £27,000 per annum, depending upon experience
This role is eligible for Full Time or 0.5 job share
Zone West is a small team with big ambitions for children and young people in the West End of Newcastle. We hope you like the look of the job and the Charity we work for which is called North East Wellbeing. Our job is to link vulnerable children with resources that will help them, but it is more than signposting: we have the time and space to form meaningful and lasting relationships that can transform lives, underpinned by developmental thinking. Maybe you are the right person to join our open and friendly team. If this sounds like your cup of tea, please let us send you an info pack. We look forward to hearing from you.
Children’s Social Care and are experiencing difficulties with school attendance. You will hold children at the centre of every aspect of your practice, be flexible and non-judgemental, and excellent at rapid engagement. You will work across the 9 primary schools within the WEST trust, engaging with children and caregivers to identify barriers to school attendance and use a solution focussed approach to support the co-creation of strategies to remove them.
If you have the following skills and expertise, we would love to hear from you:
1. Act as a trusted adult and role model in the lives of children and families.
2. Maintain a child-centred, child-led approach, enabling young people to move towards greater self-understanding.
3. Demonstrate relevant experience with children aged 7 to 11 years in family support work, education, social work, youth work, mentoring, counselling or similar.
4. Have experience of assessing and promoting the wellbeing of primary school children who are at risk of becoming looked after.
5. Experience of working positively with children facing complex social and emotional challenges.
6. Experience of child-led and child-directed practice.
7. Excellent understanding of safeguarding, child protection and children’s social care provision; experience of collaborative working with Early Help, Children’s Social Care, Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership.
8. Confidence in participation and challenge in multi-agency meetings
9. Widen the network of support for the child by linking them to existing organizations and opportunities in the community including cultural engagement, physical activity, curriculum enhancement, and family engagement
Full details of the role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.