Young People's Worker

3 weeks ago


March, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
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.

We currently have a vacancy for a part time, 30 hour (2 year fixed term) Young Peoples Worker position within the Targeted Support Team in March, Chatteris and Whittlesey. The role of Young People’s Worker (YPW) 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.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Caroline Benincasa - 07775404959, Zoe Stockhill - 07584 771974.

Interviews will be at Whittlesey Youth & Community Centre, 15 Scaldgate, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1SD

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.

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.
- Why would you like to be considered for 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

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 believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

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.

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 empl


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