Youth development worker are responsible for:
- prioritising and allocating referrals based on the referral criteria
- determining time scales and volume of sessions
- communicating with the referrer to establish if there are additional support needs or support requirements
- agreeing plan for attendance to groups and
- one-to-one support sessions
- communicating referrals, risk assessments and timetables for young people to the relevant school-based youth information worker
Initial meeting with the young person
The youth information worker will make contact with the young person being referred to arrange an initial meeting.
During this meeting, information about the service will be shared with them, the number of sessions will be agreed and baseline information about their well-being will be gathered. This will then provide a benchmark for the young person and the youth information worker for evaluation purposes.
Young person attends their allocated group or one-to-one session
The young person will attend their allocated group or one-to-one session for their agreed schedule with regular evaluations.
If a young person repeatedly does not attend, or their circumstances change, this may result in a change in their schedule.