Lynn Harding

Background

About Lynn Harding

Personal Adviser for Thurrock Careers, Thurrock Council. Works well with vulnerable groups of young people, liaising and advocating for young persons in difficult situations. Present in a pupil support service where young people have been permanent excluded from mainstream school for various reasons. Also linked to students who have medical problems and unable to attend mainstream schools. Have the ability to adapt to sometimes difficult and challenging situations and consider myself to be conscientious, reliable, hardworking and client focused to enable positive contributions and positive outcomes for young people. Removing barriers to learning to raise aspirations and rebuild confidence to make right choices for future learning and life opportunities. Signposting Young People to Specialist support agencies Delivers prevention to NEET programmes, to engage young people in future career options, giving impartial IAG and choices available to them Visiting young people, at home, hostels, prisons and detention centres and outreach centres as a point of contact, listening and supporting them where necessary in careers, housing, benefits and offending behaviour. Supporting young people in work experience placements to gain apprenticeships, working with local employers and training providers into positive outcomes. Accompanying young people to appointments for support needs, special educational needs, youth offending and health disabilities to enable all support to be in place prior to destination. Contributing to Organisational and Local/National Government initiatives to reduce NEET, helped to maintain targets to reduce NEET – providing pastoral support to existing students. Attending TAC, TAF, CP conferences to support families and young persons to positive outcomes. Designated child protection officer for school Finalist in the UK CYP Now Awards 2016 Young Persons Champion in London November 2016 Finalist in the Thurrock Education Awards 2016