Early Help Support Worker

1 week ago

Whitstable, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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Are you hardworking, committed, and passionate about helping young people and their families improve their outcomes? If so, we need you

The role will involve working youth work sessions predominantly during **Twilight and evenings** but may include occasional weekend working. Although your contractual base will be Whitstable Youth Centre you could be asked to work a session anywhere within the District, sessions may be centre-based or detached, we also do some school based work.

You will also support young people to develop life skills, gain employment or training opportunities and promote healthy living. Applicants will need to be able to work as part of a team and have an understanding of multi-agency working, as well as work using their own initiative.

This role will require you to have an approachable and non
- judgemental attitude and provide an environment that is welcoming and supportive to all young people who attend sessions at our Youth Hub and Detached offer, making sure that sessions are set up for the planned activities, solving resource problems quickly, responding flexibly to changes in the Hub’s programme, contributing to the planning, delivery and evaluating of activities, working in line with the Senior and Early Help Workers (Youth).

You will be Line managed and supported by motivated and experienced managers, the role of a **Youth **Early Help Support Worker is to be part of a team providing help, Support and guidance to young people and their families. This post, alongside creativity and good communication, requires flexibility, innovative thinking, and good organisation skills and requires a positive young person-centred approach. An induction programme will be provided and on-going training to support your training needs.

**Youth Work **is a key part of Kent’s Early Help offer, with friendly and supportive environments which offer a wide range of sessions, activities, and events to help develop and support in their lives and in their local communities, these include music, art, sports, personal development and much more.

The Job Description for this role is generic and covers Early Help Support Workers in both Children’s Centres and Youth Hubs, this role is based within a **Youth Hub** (8-19 age range, up to 25 with SEND.)

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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