Children and Young Person Peer Worker

Job overview

The Black Country has been successful in implementing the keyworker model and has achieved success in keeping individuals in the community. The service is now looking to expand it’s offer, prioritising the ongoing engagement of our 0-25 year olds with a diagnosis of Learning Disability and/or Autism. The peer workers would be responsible for promoting positive engagement within the community, this will include individual and group based work. They will work both independently and alongside the keyworkers to empower and upskill alongside building links with our community partners. The service is seeking individuals who have knowledge and understanding of the systems this can be both from a professional or lived experience perspective. The successful candidate(s) would be motivated and positive in their approach, keen to work with others and make a difference

Main duties of the job

• To promote community engagement with our young people who have come through the keyworker system.
• To be an effective communicator which includes listening to our young people.
• To develop and facilitate a group which promotes social inclusion, confidence building and a sense of belonging for our young people.
• To support young people on an individual basis to work towards specific goals to promote impendence and inclusion.
• To work closely with the keyworker team and supporting in the development of the service across the Black Country
• To network with partner agencies having up to date information around current offers to sign post our young people too.
• To have a person-centred approach recognising that each individual’s needs are different.
• To have the ability to be flexible in your communication styles and approaches.
• To build on existing Black Country good practice within the keyworker service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To promote community engagement with our young people who have come through the keyworker system.
• To be an effective communicator which includes listening to our young people.
• To develop and facilitate a group which promotes social inclusion, confidence building and a sense of belonging for our young people.
• To support young people on an individual basis to work towards specific goals to promote impendence and inclusion.
• To work closely with the keyworker team and supporting in the development of the service across the Black Country
• To network with partner agencies having up to date information around current offers to sign post our young people too.
• To have a person-centred approach recognising that each individual’s needs are different.
• To have the ability to be flexible in your communication styles and approaches.
• To build on existing Black Country good practice within the keyworker service