Detached Outreach Workers SC5

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location : CIVIC CENTRE, London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 20.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 15:00
End Time : 20:00
Salary: £13.63

The Community Safety & Enforcement service in Haringey is committed to reducing gang involvement and youth violence in the borough.
The Haringey Community Gold team was established through a successful application to the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) Young Londoners Fund resulting in £1.5m to support the borough’s young people over the 3-year programme. The programme’s structure requires a Specialist Outreach Focus engaging the target group, identified in the grant application.

Haringey Community Gold uses a strengths based public health approach to engaging young people, and benefits from a network of connected community programmes to listen and respond to young people. The Specialist Outreach Team delivers a bespoke range of services from street outreach, schools workshops, open forums, sports, training and employment.
Job Description
Outreach workers to engage with young people, signpost young people to supportive/positive services and act as credible guardians/messengers in locations where robberies involving
school age young people are known to occur.
To be present at and around key transport hubs and routes which young people travel back from school, for the hours 3pm to 8pm, Monday to Friday. Locations may be rotated as required and will be determined by current trends in youth violence, robbery and intelligence.
During the summer/school holiday periods, locations to be related to diversionary activity locations.
Workers to engage with young people, signpost them to support services and diversionary activities, provide basic crime prevention advice and to act as visible guardians around transport locations.
Workers to complete post deployment summary, highlighting general activity and observations around location.
Workers to attend regular partnership meetings (e.g. Robbery Focus Group, GIM/GAG, PPSG etc.) as appropriate, in order to feed into discussions and to develop intervention plans.

Key measures will include:
o Number of young people engaged with (formally/informally) o Number of young people referred to positive/diversionary activities o Number of young people referred to support services