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How You'll Make a Difference
The Young People’s Support team offers an adolescent-centred preventative service for adolescent children who face worrying risks to their safety and well-being. As a Support Worker, you will build relationships with children and their families, listening to them and understanding what life is like for them. Acting as a listening ear and advocate, you will help them find their voice and access services.
Working in a small team of dedicated and passionate staff and in collaboration with the Youth Justice Service, you will have guidance and support to access service provision and specialist solutions to offer to young people.
What You Will Be Doing
- Using an early help assessment plan, you will assess the needs of families and young people and contribute to children in need and child protection plans where the risks are specifically around an adolescent aged child.
- Through designing and delivering engaging direct work sessions, you will support adolescent children facing significant challenges, including criminal and sexual exploitation, problematic sexual behaviour, peer-on-peer and group-based violence, family breakdown, permanent exclusion from school, substance misuse and mental health concerns.
- It will be key for you to build a team and provision around the family so support mechanisms can be constructed around the child and available after you step back.
What We Need From You
- You must be professionally qualified at NVQ Level 3 or equivalent or be working towards a relevant professional qualification related to the provision of services to children and young people.
- It is essential that you have relevant experience of working in a similar service area with children, adolescents or families with complex needs.
- Given the elements of the role, you will demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, procedures, support mechanisms, and specialist equipment.
- We require you to remain resilient and be able to work under pressure with difficult and sensitive topics.
What You Need To Know
- This is a limited term contract until 28th September 2026.
- Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained.
- You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so you must have a full, valid driving licence, with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
Interviews will be held on 5th September 2025.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Support Worker YPS - Job Description
Please note that this job description outlines all teams within Preventative Services; this is a role specifically within YPS - Young People's Support.
