Job title: Chances – Senior Caseworker

Salary: £23,982 – £26,114

Fixed term until 01/02/23 with possibility of one year additional extension

The closing date for this post is the 4th January 2021, 5pm

Interviews will be conducted during the week commencing 11^th January 2021.

The Role:

To support our work at PYF, we are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Caseworker to join our team.

As a Caseworker, your primary responsibility will be to provide support to young people experiencing challenges, by building on their strengths and helping them to find solutions. You will support the projects smooth referral process and manage a caseload of young people aged 11-17, providing them with 1-2-1 casework support.  We will particularly focus on supporting young people involved in criminal activity and those who are not in education, employment or training, or who are at risk of becoming so.

You will be expected to constantly evaluate and track progress against internal and external targets to ensure our programme participants are on target to meet personal goals, and the project’s desired outcomes.

Knowledge of the youth work, social welfare and youth justice sector will be hugely beneficial for this role, as will a high standard of partnership working and commitment to supporting young people.

If you want to make a difference to young people’s lives – then this is a great opportunity to make an impact.

To apply please download the Application Form and send to info@positiveyouthfoundation.org

Salary £23,982 – £26,114

Fixed term until 31/03/22 with possibility of one year additional extension

THE ROLE :

Newly arrived young people’s programme (Involved).

To support our growth, we are seeking a dynamic and charismatic Programmes Co-ordinator who will work closely with the management team to develop our programme of  work specifically targeting young people newly arrived to the UK that are residents of Coventry.

We want to ensure that young people in Coventry who arrive in the UK for the first time, have been living in the city or who are asylum seekers have the right support mechanisms in place to be able to become active member of the community and to have equal opportunities to achieve positive outcomes.

Some of our key objectives are to offer newly arrived young people accessible Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) regarding their future options in their new environment and to develop innovative projects and programmes aimed at understanding Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health of newly arrived young people. We aim to support participants into some form of training, employment or education.

Knowledge of the youth, migrant and community sector will be essential for this role, as will a high standard of partnership working and commitment to supporting young people.

If you want to make a difference to young people’s lives – then this is a great opportunity to make an impact.

The closing date for this post is the 4^th January 2021.

Interviews will be conducted during the week commencing 11^th January 2021.

Please submit download the application form below and submit with your CV and covering email to info@positiveyouthfoundation.org