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- Direct work with Unaccompanied Young People aged 16 – 21
- Manage a caseload of individual service users
- Assess need and deliver support and programmes of intervention to a wide ranging group of young people
- Assess financial needs of young people and manage the spending of individual budgets for accommodation and maintenance for young people
- Undertake visits, complete assessments and reviews
- Provide practical, personal and emotional support
- Review their needs to ensure that plans and services reflect current needs and risks using Children Act Pathway Planning Guidance
- Work collaboratively with a range of partner organisations to assess, plan and intervene with vulnerable young people
- Contribute to the duty arrangements of the UASC team seeing young people by appointment and in crisis, dealing with internal and external enquires, providing support assistance and information as required, recognising the need to involve other more experienced staff where appropriate
- Provide transportation as needed including the transport of service users
- Keep and maintain accurate records, prepare reports as required
- Attend and contribute to reviews and meetings where necessary
- Driving Licence, access to a vehicle, business insurance
- Recent and extensive experience working with young people leaving care/ unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Recent experience in child assessments and interventions
- Fully aware of the principles of safeguarding
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Enhanced Child and Adult DBS registered to the update service
