Senior Early Help Worker

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 an Open Access Senior Early Help Worker Youth is to be part of a team providing help and guidance to young people and their families. You will require a relevant degree, or related Level 5 or above professional qualification e.g., Degree in Social Work, Foundation Degree in Youth Work, Diploma Level 5 in Youth Work, Post Graduate Certificate of Education etc and/or extensive experience.

You will be required to work closely with colleagues across Integrated Children’s Services as required, to devise and implement interventions and programmes with young people and their families in various settings including school, college, family homes, youth clubs and other relevant community facilities. Assess and balance risk, vulnerability, and protective factors to safeguard and promote the welfare of young people and staff. To provide a high quality, effective and responsive service for all children, young people, and their families. Additionally, more targeted support will be provided at critical times of a child or young person’s development. 

You will be required to provide management support on behalf of the Youth Hub Delivery Manager as appropriate. Provide supervision to Early Help Workers, including volunteers where appropriate, to ensure that all staff are working towards improving and delivering high quality services. Identify targets for improvement in line with the business priorities set out in Integrated Children’s Services Strategies and Business Plans, designed to achieve excellent outcomes.

Establish rapport and build a respectful, honest, challenging, and supportive relationship with children and young people including those who may previously have had little contact with services and may be hard to reach. Communicate effectively to ensure that their views are heard, recorded accurately and, wherever possible, acted upon using a range of tools.

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. The role will involve working youth work sessions during the evenings within the community and centre based but may include occasional weekend working, across the district.

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.

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.

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

Interviews: 15th December, 2021

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact Jane Relf on 03000 418 248

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.