What does a targeted youth support worker do?
TYS staff assess and provide intervention plans to ensure that the young person’s and their families’ needs are identified and lead planned work to address those needs.
What is a residential youth support worker?
When you’re a residential support worker it’s your job to look after the health, safety and comfort of children or vulnerable adults who are in care. You could be working in a children’s home or retirement home.
What are targeted services?
Children and young people who have a disability or complex needs which cannot be met through universal services alone, may also need help from targeted services.
What is the role of a residential support worker?
A residential support worker’s job is to offer care to those who are otherwise unable to care for themselves. Often this will be with the elderly, but some residential support workers have opportunities to specialise with those with learning disabilities or other mental health issues.
What is the youth offending and targeted youth support service?
The Permanence Service comprises the following teams: The main duties of the Youth Offending and Targeted Youth Support service include: preventing young people who are at high risk of offending from becoming involved in criminal activity, thus reducing the number of first time entrants into the youth justice system
What is early help targeted youth support work?
Early Help Targeted Youth Support Workers provide support for young people (aged 13-18 years) who are able to give their consent to be worked with and who meet the criteria as set out as below.
What support do we offer to young people who are homeless?
We offer support, information and advice to young people aged 16 – 21 who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. The following groups are eligible for the service – children Looked After and Care leavers aged 16 -25 (eligibility for those over 21 will require an open allocation to Leaving Care)
What are the service areas of safeguarding and social care?
Our service areas include: Safeguarding and Social Care provides services for our most vulnerable children and young people. This includes: screening referrals from all agencies e.g. police, health, schools, individuals for a social work assessment/intervention via MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub)