Senior Early Help Worker (Open Access) Ashford Youth Hub

Role Responsibility

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

The role of a Youth Senior Early Help Worker is to be part of a team that provides help and guidance to young people and their families. This includes casework, group work planning and delivery, and leading evening and weekend youth sessions.

Youth Work is the 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 young people and families in their lives and in their local communities, these include: music, art, sports, personal development and much more.

The role will require you to plan, deliver and evaluate targeted group work, manage an additional support caseload, lead on our NEET work and manage a team of part-time sessional workers. You will work to provide an environment that is welcoming and supportive to all young people who engage with our service.

You will hold a professional qualification in Youth Work, Social Care, Childcare, Health, Teaching or a Diploma in probation studies,  In exceptional circumstances a relevant academic degree with experience in working with Children and Young People may be considered.

This post, alongside creativity and good communication, requires flexibility, innovative thinking, and good organisation skills. You will have extensive experience of working within a youth work, social care, education or youth justice setting and have line management experience. 

The attached Job Description and person specification details the requirements for this role, and you are encouraged to evidence your match to the person specification in your supporting statement.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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.

Contact Details

For further information regarding this role, please contact:

Natalie Penfold

03000 412492

natalie.penfold@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.