Job Purpose:
1. To offer intensive mentoring for school pupils at high risk, providing one to one support to
overcome the challenges they are facing at school, home and in the community in order to prevent
exclusion and vulnerability; further preventing entry into gangs, criminality, exploitation and other
behaviour issues which inhibits young people from development and growth.
2. To focus on children in schools to raise awareness, improve cognitive skills and decision making
and resilience amongst pupils identified as at risk of and/or involved in violence, gangs and
exploitation as well as behaviour issues.
3. Gang and group conflict mediation to quickly resolve conflicts involving school pupils from
escalating further and to provide targeted support to address root causes (including Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy) aided by diversionary activities to prevent young people from further
entrenchment in groups/gangs and criminality
4. To track progress of young person and family to ensure they are moving towards achieving agreed
goals and outcomes.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Case Work
1. Engage, educate and mentor young people in schools and PRU’s, who are identified as at risk of
vulnerability to gangs and criminality.
2. Provide 1-2-1 mentoring to young people who are identified as at risk of vulnerability to gangs and
criminality.
3. Organise and facilitate group work with identified groups of vulnerable young people in relation to
mediation and resolution based interventions
3. Organise and facilitate training on thematic workshops to families and professionals in different
settings.
4. To ensure that all workshops, training and group sessions are delivered by the agreed time
according to the programme annual delivery plan.
5. To arrange and conduct home visits for all new young people and create and implement
individual/family action plans to meet their needs.
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6. To work with young people and their families offering one to one support, advice and guidance and
positive activities.
7. To intervene directly in hotspot areas where violence is occurring daily and help to reduce it by
working with the target groups.
Planning and Delivery
1. To work closely with the line manager and schools to plan, facilitate and deliver the programme
within the agreed outputs and timeframe.
2. To inform and communicate with the manager if any changes, amendments, or risks to the above
arise.
Networking, Profiling and Representing
1. To generate appropriate referrals to the programme by publicity, promotion and developing new
networks and professional relationships with schools, key services and other agencies
2. To attend and represent the organisation at various meetings and events
3. To liaise and network regularly with schools, PRU’s, partner organisations/agencies with regards to
young people, follow-up work and development of new work.
Keep, Maintain and Track Accurate Data
1. To be responsible for the development, upkeep & implementation of individual and family action
plans, reviews, exit evaluations and monitoring information of all the clients using service monitoring
forms.
2. To accurately maintain up to date detailed casework files.
3. To ensure that all relevant internal and external monitoring reports are submitted on time.
4. To update the Senior Youth Intervention Officer on weekly basis on the work that has been
undertaken and completed.
Other Duties
1. To adhere to the Osmani Trust policies & procedures
2. To ensure full participation in all internal meetings that may be deemed necessary as required by
the post.
3. To undertake and complete training and personal developmental programmes/courses deemed
necessary for the post.
4. To participate in Osmani Trust events, fundraising activities and other key programmes.
5. To carry out any other work allocated by the Aasha Project Manager across the various
programmes.