Young People's Worker

1 week ago

March, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Cambridge County Council Full time

Cambridgeshire County Council Targeted Support Service provides support to children, young people and their families. Each Targeted Support Team consists of Family Workers, Child and Family Centre workers, Young People's Worker's, Senior Transitions Advisors, Transitions Advisors, Client Researchers and managers. The team provides early intervention support to reduce the risk of harm and reduce escalation of problems to support keeping families together and achieve positive outcomes.

The role of Young People's Worker (YPW) is an 18.5 hour post, fixed term until April 2025, based at Hereward Hall, March supporting the March, Chatteris and Whittlesey Targeted Support Team. This is an exciting, varied and highly skilled role supporting young people (aged 12 to 19) with intensive one to one support to enable them to reach positive outcomes. YPW's support individual young people, however they use a whole family approach to analyse how support provided impacts on the young person's family.

Interviews will be held at Whittlesey Youth & Community Centre, 15 Scaldgate, Whittlesey, PE7 1SD on Monday 24th June.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Caroline Benincasa on

Cambridgeshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an enhanced DBS.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which is beneficial to employees, the organisation, and the communities we serve.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

  • Flexible working
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package
  • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
  • A comprehensive pension scheme
  • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
  • Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
  • An employee recognition scheme
What will you be doing?

You will support a caseload of young people by providing targeted interventions to support with a range of risks or needs which may include things such as child sexual and criminal exploitation, healthy relationships, at risk of exclusion from education, county lines, and anti-social behaviour.

You will complete Early Help Assessments (EHA's) and be Lead Professional for the young person. As lead professional you will work in partnership with the multi-agency team around the family and provide tailored, targeted intervention that enables young people to achieve positive outcomes.

You will organise, plan and deliver evidence-based group work programmes that aim to support young people with topics such as emotional resilience, risk taking behaviour, healthy relationships and more. You will also support delivery of parenting programmes delivered to parents of teenagers.

About you

Qualities:

  • You will be motivated and dedicated to supporting young people and their families in achieving positive outcomes.
  • You will be organised, able to work autonomously and as a team.
  • You will be willing approachable, personable, and able to build a positive rapport with young people and their families.
  • You will be willing to continue your professional development through informal and formal training.

Skills and Experience:

  • You will have a good knowledge and understanding of the issues facing young people and their families, and the support service in place to help them achieve positive outcomes.
  • You will have a good knowledge and understanding of safeguarding requirements, duty of care, and legislation relating to support young people and their families, including that of legislation regarding Raising of the Participation Age.
  • You will have good communication skills using a variety of formats and will work efficiently within a multi- agency environment.
  • You will have the ability to produce, keep and maintain good case recording, reports, and assessments.
  • Willingness to travel locally and across the County.

To apply, please complete via the online application form that tells us how you meet the following essential criteria

  • Why would you like to be considered for this role?
  • What skills, attributes and experiences will you apply to this role?
  • Knowledge and understanding of the issues facing young people and parents of young people in Targeted Support Team
  • Experience of multi-agency and partnership working to ensure the best outcomes for young people in Targeted Support Team
  • The ability to write objective assessments and to complete accurate triage as part of work with young people in Targeted Support Team

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

You will be required to hold a full and valid driving license and have access to a vehicle or have the ability to otherwise travel efficiently between locations.

Interviews may include a young people's panel in addition to a targeted support management panel.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

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