MORSE Youth Practitioner

MORSE Youth Practitioner
Job Description

MORSE Youth Practitioner
Across Worcestershire and Herefordshire, base to be agreed
Team Manager/Director of Services

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Working hours:   24 hours per week
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Fixed-Term (until 31 March 2027)
£16,106.75

About YSS

YSS  enables  people  to  be  emotionally  resilient,  to  thrive,  and  to  feel  they  belong  to  a
community. We uphold people’s rights and responsibilities, ensuring they can exercise them
with dignity and respect.

We are a charity that helps people to help themselves, and we’ve been doing so for more
than thirty years. There are thousands of people in our communities who struggle with life
and face what seem to be insurmountable barriers  - they are why we exist. We  provide a
wide  variety  of  community-based  support for people  and are  often  described  as the  ‘glue’
between those at risk of social isolation and the wider mainstream society.

We run a diverse range of services working with 7- to 70-year-olds but our aim is always the
same – to help people to break through barriers and to achieve their potential. Our website –
www.yss.org.uk – contains further information about YSS and all our projects and services.

About MORSE Youth

The MORSE (Making Our Road Safer for Everyone) Youth service is a project between YSS
and West Mercia Youth Offending Service (WMYJS). The service will provide 1-1 support for
children and young people under the age of 18 who have committed driving offences across
West Mercia. Children will be referred to a 12-week behaviour change programme and will
receive  weekly  holistic  support  focused  on  improving  their  resilience  to  peer  pressure,
strengthening positive relationships and developing a future action plan. This innovative pilot
service aims to reduce the number of driving offences committed by under 18s and in turn
reduce the number of collisions, injuries and fatalities.

Job Purpose

Your role will principally work with children and young people under the age of 18 who are
committing  driving  offences  and  have  been  referred  from  the Youth  Justice  team. You  will
provide 12-weeks support per service user, offering a combination of face to face and remote
support. You will deliver support across the whole of Worcestershire and Herefordshire and
your primary base will be determined by the area closest to where you reside. There will be
an expectation to work from Youth Justice Offices at agreed intervals. Mileage costs will be

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paid from  your base  to  other offices. There is an expectation  for the  team  to also  support
delivery in other areas, within our service, according to need.

Key Responsibilities

•  Manage  a  caseload  of  individuals  offering  practical  and  emotional  support  and
delivering direct planned work with children/young people on a one-to-one basis, using
a  variety  of  interventions  to  achieve  better  outcomes  and  reduce  re-offending
behaviour.

•  Accept referrals; undertake relevant assessments and develop tailor made outcome
focused support plans including the delivery of the Young Driver Safety Programme.
•  Work in a motivational and inspirational way to engage with children/young people to
reduce impulsive behaviours, increase long term planning and develop positive future
outcomes.

•  Actively  engage  with  service  users  to  obtain  feedback  around  decisions  that  affect

them.

•  Commit to working in partnership with WMYJS and other agencies/organisations.
•  Attend  internal/external meetings  as  required  and  act as  a  lead  professional where

appropriate.

•  Ensure children/young people are actively involved in decision making.
•  Attend  local  stakeholder  meetings,  as  well  as  local  multiagency  events  to  promote

YSS and raise the profile of the MORSE Youth service.

•  Undertake  project  self-administration

including  maintaining  database  records,
recording  and  monitoring  performance  targets  and  assisting  in  providing  data  for
monthly and quarterly reports.

•  Participate constructively in team meetings and supervision with the line manager as

well as undertaking appropriate training as required and appropriate.

•  Risk assess and take the necessary actions in respect of any activities/engagement
lone-working  and

including  personal  safety,

undertaken  with  service  users
safeguarding.

•  Understand professional boundaries and ensure that your role and remit is made clear

to all service users you engage with.
individual  performance

•  Meet

targets  and  contribute

towards  meeting

team

performance targets in respect of the service.

•  Deliver a trauma informed service that ensures the needs of the service user is at the
heart  of  “everything  we  do”.  Embed  the  principles  of  restorative  practice  and
motivational interviewing techniques into all aspects of service delivery.
•  Uphold the vision, values, and profile of YSS both internally and externally.
•  Collate data in accordance with GDPR to improve systems and services beyond the

life of the project.

•  Develop  effective  working  relationships  with  colleagues  within  YSS  and  throughout
Worcestershire and Herefordshire to provide an integrated inter-agency response to
children and young people.

Essential Requirements

•  There will be regular travel across Worcestershire and Herefordshire, therefore a full

UK driving license and access to a car is a necessity.

•  You must have the right to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role.

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•  Occasional weekend and/or evening work may be a feature of the role. This will be

discussed at interview.

Notes

•  YSS operates in a fast-moving environment and may from time to time vary the content
of this job description after consultation to reflect changes to the job, without altering
the general character of the post or level of responsibility.

•  The  duties  described  in  this  job  description  must  be  carried  out  in  a  manner  which
promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and due respect for all employees, volunteers
and service users and is consistent with YSS policies.

•  We are a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and committed to being a forces-
friendly employer. We actively encourage applications from veterans and service
leavers. As part of our commitment to fair recruitment, we ensure that candidates
from the Armed Forces community are not disadvantaged due to gaps in
employment, non-traditional career paths, or transferable qualifications. We assess
all applicants based on skills, potential, and experience.

•  YSS  values  people  as  individuals  with  diverse  opinions,  cultures,  lifestyles,  and
circumstances. We are committed to building a culturally diverse team and therefore
encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates, to help us reflect our world
and the communities we work alongside.

•  Our  organisation  follows  Safer  Recruitment  principles  and  guidelines  for  all  posts
where  contact  with  children  and/or  adults  at  risk  is  possible  –  this  includes  a  full
application process, interviewing candidates, taking up and verifying two satisfactory
references  (one  of  which  must  be  from  your last  employer),  verifying  qualifications,
identity  checks,  an  enhanced  (Disclosure  and  Barring  Service)  DBS  check  and
HMPPS prison vetting.

Why Work for YSS?

•  Annual leave of 27 days, plus 8 bank holidays and 2 company holidays.
•  Pension Scheme.
•  Employee Health & Wellbeing plan.
•  Occupational sick pay.
•  Flexible working / hybrid working.
•  Monthly supervision for support / personal development.
•  Robust  induction  and  training  programme  with  an  organisational  commitment  to

ongoing training and personal development.

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