Targeted Youth Support Worker

The Service & Team:
The Family Help Service is part of Cornwall Council's Together for Families Directorate and is committed to providing timely, relationship-based support to children, young people and families. We work collaboratively with families and partner agencies to prevent needs from escalating and to improve outcomes for children and young people.

Targeted Youth Support Workers are an integral part of our multi-disciplinary Family Help Teams, working alongside Social Workers, Family Workers, schools, health professionals and other partners. The team is committed to delivering creative, strengths-based interventions that help young people overcome challenges, build resilience and achieve positive outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and experienced team that values collaboration, innovation and professional development.

The Role:
As a Targeted Youth Support Worker, you will provide direct support and intervention to vulnerable young people predominantly aged 13-18 and their families. You will work with young people who may be experiencing a range of difficulties including poor emotional wellbeing, family relationship difficulties, risk-taking behaviours, low school attendance, exploitation concerns, social isolation and other vulnerabilities.

You will build positive and trusting relationships with young people, undertake targeted one-to-one interventions, facilitate evidence-based programmes and support young people to develop the skills, confidence and resilience needed to achieve sustainable change.

The role involves working closely with families, schools and partner agencies to develop and deliver intervention plans, monitor progress and evidence outcomes. You will contribute to safeguarding arrangements and support young people to access education, training, positive activities and community resources.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families through meaningful, relationship-based practice.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This is a full-time position based within the Family Help Service, working Monday to Friday 8:45 to 17:15.

The role requires flexibility to meet the needs of young people and families and will involve working across a locality area, including community venues, schools, family homes and Council offices. Occasional evening working may be required to support young people and deliver interventions at times that meet their needs.

Cornwall Council is committed to supporting flexible working arrangements and welcomes discussions around flexible working options, where these can be accommodated alongside service requirements.
What you’ll need to succeed:
We're looking for a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner who is passionate about improving outcomes for young people.

You will need:

- Experience of working directly with children, young people and families.
- The ability to engage and build positive relationships with vulnerable young people.
- Knowledge of safeguarding principles and child-centred practice.
- Experience of delivering targeted interventions, support programmes or youth work activities.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team.
- Good organisational skills and the ability to maintain accurate records.
- A commitment to promoting positive outcomes, resilience and participation for young people.
- A full driving licence and access to transport for business use (or the ability to travel throughout Cornwall).
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information: Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here (https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/4ncgq3ms/2786-targeted-youth-support-worker-rp-2-1.pdf)
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact:

Debbie Probert
Launceston Family Help Team Manager
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07773 244377

or

Philippa Johns

Launceston Family Help Coordinator

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 07483 325466

Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.