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LOCATION OF POST
Sligo
DETAILS OF SERVICE
The Home Youth Liaison Service (HYLS) is a Sligo-Leitrim based
non-profit organisation established in * in
response to local needs to support young people.
The service was developed from the recognition that increasing numbers
of young people were potential early school leavers and not availing
of any alternative educational training opportunities.
The HYLS has a wraparound approach with staff, working in both the
formal setting of schools supporting all post primary schools in
Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan. Then also in the community where the
service has youth workers attached to the TUSLA Social work teams,
providing out of hour’s service and residential weekends.
The HYLS is supporting young people to remain within their community /
families and to reach their full potential both academically and
socially.
Our Mission is to provide an empathetic, confidential, non-judgmental
and personal support to young people and their families with the
objective of enhancing the young person's future personal and social
development and well-being.
The guiding principle that underpins all of our work is to place the
young person at the center of the decision-making process with the aim
of allowing them to take responsibility for their own choices and
actions.
The HYLS provides a link between family, school and professional
services (both in the Government sector and the voluntary sector).
The HYLS identifies, develops and delivers tailored programmes in
response to identified needs of young people aged between **Apply on
the website** years.
The guiding principal that underpins all of our work is to place the
young person at the centre of their decision making process with the
aim of allowing them to take responsibility got their own choices and
actions.
PURPOSE OF ROLE:
Purpose of this role is to provide a sympathetic, confidential,
non-judgemental, personal contact and support young people who may be
opting out of available educational or training facilities with the
objective of enhancing their future personal and social development,
together with their re-integration into mainstream education and/or
training where appropriate.
The Service requires one Youth Support Worker to work as a member of a
team, which provides a confidential, sympathetic, non-judgemental and
personal contact and support service for young people.
The work involves establishing and maintaining contact with schools,
young people and their families in a sympathetic and non-judgemental
environment. Also personal contact and support service for young
people and liaising with TUSLA and other agencies, as appropriate.
The Youth Support Worker will provide care, protection, and support to
vulnerable clients, individually or in groups, in conjunction with the
wider multidisciplinary team and other relevant agencies. The primary
aim is to provide intervention necessary to address the child or young
person’s issues or the issues.
PLEASE SEE CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK & APPLICATION FORM ATTACHED
BELOW.
CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATION FORMS IS 5PM, FRIDAY **APPLY
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Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
