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About the Role

This role is within the Voice & Influence Team, focusing on engaging children with SEND and their families to influence local inclusive education. The position is for three years due to specific funding and requires evening and weekend work to accommodate the needs of children, young people, and their families.

Responsibilities

Work with the voice and influence team to promote and develop opportunities for young people to lead change and make decisions impacting their activities, services, and organizations.
Undertake consultation and engagement with vulnerable or marginalized young people to ensure their views are heard and understood, informing service and policy development.
Identify vulnerabilities within groups of young people to initiate and facilitate support, improving outcomes and giving young people a voice.
Develop, implement, and evaluate opportunities for young people to guide, shape, and participate in key decisions.
Support partner organizations to effectively respond to young people's issues and interests, involving them directly in decision-making.
Partner with organizations to advance the voice and influence of vulnerable and marginalized children and young people in services, local areas, and the city.
Identify opportunities for partner organizations to improve their systems for participation with vulnerable young people and provide support.
Coordinate specific work as identified in the citywide voice and influence plan.
Contribute to building sustainable systems to improve the voice and influence of vulnerable or marginalized children and young people.
Implement the Voice and Influence strategy and Hear by Right, supporting partners to create a shared vision for participation.
Promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Article 12.
Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people, and/or vulnerable adults.
Plan, project manage, and deliver ways to embed shared values in the voice and influence strategy and Article 12 UNCRC.
Complete and maintain an audit of participation opportunities available to young people.
Share participation opportunities across various platforms to reach young people, especially those facing barriers.
Initiate, facilitate, and support the development of partnerships, projects, and events with other teams and the VCS.
Contribute to assessing the effectiveness of Voice and Influence work by developing and maintaining performance information.
Keep comprehensive records of young people's participation, skill development, and outcomes.
Build relationships, deliver training, advice, and guidance to stakeholders to develop sustainable engagement and participation activities.
Recruit, train, and support young people to volunteer in the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of participation and voice and influence work.
Promote equality of opportunity by engaging with vulnerable and marginalized children and young people.
Undertake an annual audit of consultation and participation to identify underrepresented groups and reduce barriers.
Manage and develop the Participation Youth Support Worker, including line management and supervision.
Undertake administrative tasks, including record keeping and report writing.
Ensure personal health, safety, and wellbeing, and that of other employees, in line with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

Requirements

Experience of engaging with children with SEND and their families.
Familiarity with the Lundy Participatory Model.
Ability to undertake meaningful engagement with children with SEND and their families.
Ability to lead on engagement as part of the wider voice and influence team.
Willingness to work some evenings and weekends.
Disclosure of criminal record details if required for DBS disclosure.
Ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults.
Ability to plan, project manage and deliver ways to embed shared values in the voice and influence strategy and Article 12 UNCRC.
Ability to complete and keep up to date an audit of participation opportunities.
Ability to share participation opportunities across a range of platforms.
Ability to initiate, facilitate and support the development of partnerships, project and events.
Ability to contribute to the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of Voice and Influence work.
Ability to keep comprehensive records of young people’s participation.
Ability to build relationships, deliver training, advice, and guidance to stakeholders.
Ability to recruit, train and support young people to volunteer.
Ability to promote equality of opportunity by engaging with vulnerable and marginalized children and young people.
Ability to undertake an annual audit of consultation and participation.
Ability to manage and develop Participation Youth Support Worker.
Ability to undertake administrative tasks as required.
Understanding of personal responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing.

Skills

Engagement with children with SEND
Child and youth voice participation
Lundy Participatory Model
Consultation and engagement
Facilitation
Partnership working
Training delivery
Record keeping
Report writing
Line management
Safeguarding
Promoting equality of opportunity

Location

Hull

Work Type

Full time
Fixed Term

Experience Level

Experience of engaging with children with SEND and their families

Salary/Compensations

£30,515.00 - £33,119.00

Benefits

Competitive salary
Excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
23 days annual leave initially (depending on length of service)
Eight public holidays per year
Three additional days off per year
Career development and learning experiences
Supportive and forward-thinking culture
Great career development opportunities

About the Company

Hull City Council is committed to increasing diversity, equality, and inclusion within its workforce.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
The Council values are: People First, Respect, Learning, Ambition and Partnership.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong.
We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting.
Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.