Young People's Service
Weekly Email w/c 28/11/2016
in Association with Your Space West Sussex
Chi Mandem – Group of young people on National Citizen Service (NCS) programme
A group of young people on the National Citizen Service (NCS) Programme for their social action project decided to raise awareness for haemophilia. They have created a funding page, a video and a great blog to read.
Check it out and help spread the word for them!
Thanks from the NCS Team
New animation sheds light on Corporate Parenting
Did
you know as a Local Authority employee you are a corporate parent and have a
responsibility to all children looked after placed in and out of West Sussex?
No?
Then you should watch our short animation, which
talks you through what
corporate parenting is and how you can help.
We
all have a duty to the young people in our care and care leavers and by
watching the animation you are already taking action to make West Sussex a
better place for these kids.
Want
to learn more? Then visit www.westsussex.gov.uk/corporateparenting.
We
are all Corporate Parents.
Our
duty. Their right. Your choice.
Healthy Child Programme in West Sussex gets an outstanding
result
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCFT) Healthy Child Programme in West Sussex has received an outstanding result for Stage 2 Baby Friendly accreditation by UNICEF.
To achieve this recognition SCFT’s Health Visiting and Infant Feeding Teams have undergone a rigorous assessment process to provide assurance that they deliver the very highest standards of care. SCFT received Stage 1 Baby Friendly accreditation in July 2015 and were “highly commended”. Stage 2 of the Baby Friendly Initiative assessment assesses the level of knowledge and skills of staff that are providing breastfeeding support and care for pregnant women, mothers and babies.
See 1 file on SharePoint: HCP_FINAL.docx
Feedback from the Healthy Child
Programme Stakeholder Engagement
“You Said …We Did”
Earlier this
year you and your colleagues and teams were invited to contribute to a
stakeholder engagement process for the co-design of the Healthy Child Programme
contract for West Sussex. We would like you to know how this progressed and how
your contributions were included and valued. The service specification for the
contract took into account all the comments and information we heard. The
slides summarise this and is our feedback to you.
See 1 files on SharePoint: HCP_Presentation 081116.ppt
We would
like to thank all our stakeholders for your time, your honesty and your
interest. We hope that
you will be able to support the mobilisation of the contract with the provider
who will be confirmed in December.
Please share
the slides with members of your team, school locality and colleagues who may
have contributed. Should you have any queries the contacts for the Healthy
Child Programme are on the final slide.
Apply now to get a
disability leisure discount card for Christmas
With more than 120 discounts
available for children and young people with disabilities, families should sign
up now if they want to get their Compass Card for Christmas.
The leisure discount card was
launched in West Sussex in April this year and around 15 percent of eligible
families have already signed up.
It is estimated that there
are more than 7,000 children and young people in West Sussex who are eligible
for the Compass Card West Sussex, which could see families save hundreds of
pounds a year.
Within the 120 offers
available with the card, there is a wide range of discounts and concessions for
families wanting to make the most of their Christmas break.
Offers include money off food
bills, free entry to leisure activities for carers, free swimming sessions,
free hire of DVDs, CDs and audiobooks, and a range of transport discounts. All
of the offers are listed in the free Compass Card app for iPhones and Android
smartphones.
The offers will also be
available on the new Compass Card website which is to be launched shortly at www.compasscard.org.uk.
Stephen Hillier, Cabinet
Member for Children - Start of Life, said: “There are already more than 1,100
children benefitting from the discounts available through this card which we
know will make a huge difference.
“The card is helping to break
down the barriers which stop people from accessing services and it is also a
good way for families to easily find out which activities are suitable for
children with disabilities.”
The card is available for
under 25-year-olds who are living or going to school in West Sussex, and have
special educational needs, disabilities or complex health needs that have a big
effect on their daily life.
Families signing up for the
Compass Card West Sussex, which takes up to three weeks to be processed, will
be added to the county’s disability register.
Local charity Amaze has been
commissioned to manage the discount card and the disability register and will
also be able to collate anonymous data to help West Sussex County Council
understand the volume and range of disabilities and plan for the future more
effectively.
For more information visit www.westsussex.gov.uk/compasscard,
email compass@amazebrighton.org.uk
or call 0300 123 9186.
Job vacancy
LITTLEHAMPTON
TOWN COUNCIL
PROJECT
82
WORKER
IN CHARGE (7 hours per week)
Salary:
JNC points 9-12 Youth Support Worker in Charge
£19,659
- £22,219 pa (pro rata) / £10.18 - £11.51 per hour
Littlehampton Town Council is seeking to
appoint a Youth Worker as Worker in Charge for its innovative and successful Project 82 Youth Service. The service offers a range
of youth club sessions, targeted work, outreach and projects across various
locations within Littlehampton. The successful applicants will help to manage
the programming of the youth work, prepare the resources for the delivery of
the programme, assist in programme and service development. The successful
candidate will be required to work 2 sessions per week at various locations,
this will involve mainly evening work.
We are looking for an experienced youth
worker with a proven track record in developing youth work programmes in a
variety of contexts. The position is ideally suited to someone seeking a career
in youth work and a challenging work environment to develop their skills. Pay is
according to experience and qualifications.
For details, please contact: Emma Biffi,
Project Manager on 01903 739250, for an application form contact 01903 732063
or ltc@littlehampton-tc.gov.uk
Littlehampton Town Council is an Equal
Opportunities Employer and operates a no-smoking policy.
See 2 files on SharePoint: 2016 WiC JD & PS.docx and Job Application Form Worker in Charge.docx
Closing date: Friday 9th
December 2016 at 4.30pm
Job vacancy
Operations Officer Vacancies in DofE South East Region
In
order to provide the capacity to reach even more young people, including those
from more diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds, we recognise the need to
increase the number of Operations Officers in our team. These posts are crucial
to the service we can provide our Licensed Organisations.
Could
I please ask that you help us to attract the right calibre of person to these
posts by distributing this message and web link across your network of
contacts? Our recruitment website includes an Information Pack document in
which we have intentionally emphasised that these posts will not be
working with young people but instead need to demonstrate skills/experience in
providing services and achieving KPIs with service users.
Interested
candidates should follow the link to our on-line application website: www.dofe.org/jobs . Please note that in
order to get recruitment underway, we have set a tight the deadline for
applications of Thursday 8th
December 2016 at 12 noon. First interviews will take place on Monday
12th and Friday 16th December 2016 at the South East
Regional Office in Windsor.
These
posts are the first stage of an exciting programme of growth planned for the
South East Region. There will be others posts advertised over the coming months
which I will forward to you when we have them finalised and the recruitment
process in place.
Best wishes
Christian Scott
Director – South East
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