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Youth and Family Support Worker

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Royal Borough of Greenwich Full time

Youth and Family Support Worker - Our Greenwich Schools Support Hubs

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is an exciting and fulfilling place to work. Our key focus in Children's Services is to ensure we provide excellent services for all our children, young people and their families.

We are launching pioneering emotional wellbeing hubs in eight of our secondary schools. These hubs will give children of all backgrounds access to vital support for their wellbeing by addressing the root causes of persistent absence and non-attendance in school, especially where there are unmet emotional needs, caring responsibilities or contextual safeguarding issues The hubs will act as the bridge between school, home and wider partnership agencies/services, and will work directly with the young person as well as providing comprehensive and intensive support to their wider family to ensure positive change is sustained.

The Youth & Family Support Worker role is a varied one and as well as the delivery of impactful and relational practice, will also include providing support to primary and secondary schools through consultation, role-modelling and the delivery of professional development centred around our 'Practice Framework', which is rooted in Systemic Practice and Compassion Focussed approaches, and is adopted across Children's Services in Royal Greenwich. You will be responsible for delivering direct work and interventions, including practical support, that is child and family centred, ensuring that families have the right services around them to meet their needs and brings lasting positive change. You will be well supported by a Practice Leader and the unit's dedicated Practitioner who will both provide you with direction and support.

The Role

As a Youth & Family Support Worker, you will be working in Royal Greenwich secondary schools, supporting our children and their families. You must be able to develop supportive and highly-effective relationships with children and their families.

You will work alongside a Practice Leader, Practitioner and a Systemic Practitioner, who will help embed systemic and therapeutic concepts into the work of the unit. Together, you will look at barriers and issues within children and families' lives, their strengths and needs, set goals and help develop and deliver bespoke, creative, and evidence-based interventions drawn from collaborative assessments; utilising the extensive and wide-ranging experience from across the unit.

These roles are an opportunity to make a real difference.

You will have:

  • Experience of delivering evidence-based individual and group interventions to children, young people and/or adults.
  • Ability to carry out practical support with children, young people and families, maintaining a positive perspective and demonstrating tenacity, persistence and compassion and using it as a vehicle to create sustainable change
  • Ability and experience of building trusting, honest, supportive, and outcome-focused relationships with Children and families whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

    Working for Royal Greenwich

    Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from Crossrail to the Elizabeth line to the Uber boat, we're one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around.

    You will find we pride ourselves on having an innovative learning culture dedicated to improving outcomes for children, young people, care leavers and their families.