Brook Young People Hiring for Education and Wellbeing Specialist Job at Blackburn, England Full Time

Please note: candidates are to apply for this role by visiting the Brook website and completing an application, job reference BLA1435, after reviewing the job description.

Hours: 16 per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Blackburn
Interview date: TBC

Job summary
To develop and deliver Brook’s Education and Wellbeing work with young people in a variety of settings, ensuring effective delivery against commissioned contracts as well as programmes that generate additional income for Brook.
Higher graded roles will facilitate training for adults, parents and carers and may be required to liaise with Social Care and Police, work within multi agency teams and coordinate Safeguarding concerns and referrals.

Key responsibilities
To create an empowering, non-judgemental, positive and welcoming atmosphere within Brook Education, emphasising self-determination and assisting young people to make plans and decisions and to accept responsibility

 Empower and encourage all young people to access Brook programmes with particular emphasis on ‘at risk’ groups as defined by the organisation

 Deliver tailored educational programmes for high-risk groups, universal groups or individuals that will enhance their self-esteem and reduce risk-taking behaviours

 Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of training programmes and support other professionals involved with young people to help develop their skills, knowledge and confidence in the effective delivery of Sex and Relationships Education

 Undertake initial consultations with clients including a social and lifestyle history, using the Fraser guidelines and Brook’s Client Core Record

 Undertake brief interventions during client consultations through Brook’s Health and Wellbeing agenda, promoting Brook’s holistic approach that sees the individual’s health and wellbeing, emotional, physical, sexual, mental and social needs are met in accordance with the IMB Framework

 Work within Brook’s internal pathways to refer clients to the appropriate professional team member or external service

 Work within national, professional guidelines and Brook’s Protecting Young People (PYPP) policy where there are safeguarding issues with clients, and refer to the Designated Safeguarding teams in accordance with Brook’s Safeguarding referral pathway

 Where appropriate, work within Multi Agency Teams to assist social workers and the Police to fulfil their statutory obligations to children in need of help or protection

Experience

 Demonstrable experience of working with groups of vulnerable young people

 Experience of the issues affecting young people, particularly vulnerable or excluded groups

Skills and Abilities

 Excellent communication skills, especially with young people and excluded groups

 Ability to network and build sustainable working partnerships with other agencies and key stakeholders

 Ability to organise own workload and work without direct supervision

If you are interested in applying for this post, please review the Job Description via the Brook website and complete an application form.

Please note – this role requires the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Candidates must be able to provide paperwork demonstrating their right to work in the UK.

For more information on what it means to work for Brook, please read the ‘Working for Brook’ document on our Current Vacancies page, where you will also find the application form.

Brook are an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Please note: internal applicants with live sanctions or performance improvement plans in place will not be considered for this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible.

Due to the high number of applications for this post, it will not be possible to respond to every application.

If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks, then you have not been shortlisted for this role. Thank you for your interest in working for Brook.

Reference ID: BLA1435

Part-time hours: 16 per week

Application deadline: 08/10/2021

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £22,475.00 per year

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