Young Peoples Direct Work Practitioner

Application closing date

22/12/2025

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

Grade E - £27,694 - £29,540

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Basis

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Job category/type

Social Care - Children

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Job description

Location: Locality 2 working city wide

Hours: 2 posts for 37 Hours 1 in the Staying Together Team and 1 for the Young Carers Service

Closing Date:

Contract Type: Permanent

Young Persons Direct Work Practitioner

Derby City Council's Children's Early Help and Social Care are looking to recruit two workers to work intensively with children and young people. These positions will be based in:

• The Staying Together Team that use evidence-based interventions with young people and families who have been assessed as being at risk of breakdown. You will be joining an existing team of experienced Children's Practitioners.

• The Young Carers Service makes a positive difference in the lives and futures of young carers. A young carer is a young person who provides practical or emotional support for another person, due to mental or physical ill health or disability, long term illness or drug/alcohol misuse.

You will be delivering planned interventions with a specific focus and developing resilience with children and young people. Ideally you will be confident and creative in pulling together one to one intervention.

This post will not involve case holding and will generally mean working alongside an identified member the Team supporting their intervention plan. It will focus on direct work and engaging hard to reach young people who have experienced multiple adverse childhood experiences.

Who We Are

Here at Derby City Council, we're dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it's like to work for us.

What We Offer

You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you'll also receive:

• Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
• Hybrid working (depending on your role)
• Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
• Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
• Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers

The Opportunity

In the role of Young Peoples Direct Work Practitioner, here's an example of what you'll be doing to make an impact:

You will be responsible for planning and delivering direct work to children and young people.

You will work collaboratively with the team, managers, other professionals and agencies involved in the child's, young persons or family's life, such as social workers, educators, and healthcare providers, to ensure a holistic approach to support.

You will be vigilant in identifying and responding to any safeguarding concerns, ensuring that appropriate protocols and procedures are followed to protect children and young people.

About You

To be successful in this role, you'll ideally have…

Ideally you will have some experience of working with hard-to-reach young people and of working in a multi-agency setting and have a level 2 NVQ qualification in a relevant area and at least a Grade C GCSE in English or equivalent.

Other responsibilities will include:

Maintaining accurate recording on internal record keeping systems

Where needed attending and contributing to review meetings (TAF, Network Meetings, ICPC, RCPC and CRE review meetings)

Producing written reports

Please read the person specification and job description thoroughly before applying.

As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Next Steps

If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 22/12/2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held: on the 07/01/2026 and 09/01/2026 venue to be confirmed.

If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to and/or

Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to however this is optional and will not affect your application.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application, please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we'll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it's all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on Relay UK or at /