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About the Role
Empower young people with SEND to shape local services through co-production, ensuring their voices are heard across communities.
Responsibilities
- Empower young people to shape local services that affect their lives.
- Undertake genuine co-production and ensure the voices of children and young people with SEND are directly heard.
- Bring youth participation to life, leading engaging activities for children and young people with SEND.
- Facilitate interactive workshops in schools and colleges.
- Create accessible information materials for young people to share their views.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, education providers, and voluntary sector partners.
- Ensure young people's insights directly shape policy and service delivery.
- Represent young people’s perspectives at service level meetings.
- Champion robust safeguarding practices across all engagement activities.
Requirements
- Substantial experience of working directly with disabled children and young people from diverse backgrounds.
- Proven track record of leading participation and engagement programmes.
- Solid understanding of SEND, inclusion, and multi-agency working.
- Practical experience involving young people in structured decision-making processes.
- Backgrounds in youth work, education, local government, the NHS, or community engagement are suitable.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to adapt facilitation techniques and communication styles to meet a wide range of needs.
- Proactive, organised, and collaborative.
- Ability to build trust across diverse communities.
- Ability to champion equality in all activities.
- Belief in the power of the youth voice and readiness to drive change.
- Get-stuck-in mindset to breaking down barriers and amplifying youth voices.
- Commitment to co-production to turn complex challenges into meaningful opportunities.
- Must have an Enhanced Children’s and Adult’s DBS.
Skills
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Facilitation
- Adaptability
- Proactiveness
- Organisation
- Collaboration
- Trust-building
- Equality
- SEND understanding
- Inclusion
- Multi-agency working
- Youth participation
- Engagement programmes
- Co-production
Location
- Borough (4 days a week)
Work Type
- Fixed-term secondment until 2 April 2027
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Substantial experience required
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Dedicated professional development
- Flexible working arrangements
- Comprehensive wellbeing support
About the Company
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- As a competent and caring Council, we take pride in our work every day, ensuring our services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
- RBKC is investing in our people, our communities and our future.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.