Targeted Youth Worker
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Occupation Type
Youth and community workers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Job Description
The Service & Team:
We are looking for a full time Targeted Youth Worker to work in the Gweres Tus Yowynk (GTY - Helping Young People) adolescent service. This is a specialist service that works positively with those children at risk of care. There are three GTY teams based in each of our areas in the West, Mid and East of the county. These are multi-disciplinary teams providing intense support, often when families are approaching crisis.
Cornwall offers a dynamic place to develop your career as a Targeted Youth Worker. It is judged as an ‘good’ authority by Ofsted with a forward-thinking agenda. With excellent training and development opportunities for staff, the next stage of our improvement journey is about becoming a learning organisation, where every individual takes responsibility for the quality of their own work and expect to be held to account when there are persistent or serious shortfalls in the quality of practice.
The Role
This is a statutory role where you will undertake Family Help (Child in Need) Assessments and subsequent complete Child Support Plans, as well as working directly with young people. You will be part of a multi-agency team including Social Workers, Targeted Youth Workers, Youth Justice Service Officers, Functional Family Therapists a Clinical Psychologist, Specialist Youth Justice Nurses and Harmful Sexual Behavioural Practitioners.
You will be responsible for providing high quality interventions to enable young people at risk of care to remain in the community. This is a team that is committed to increasing standards and developing multi-agency working.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
The Service & Team:
We are looking for a full time Targeted Youth Worker to work in the Gweres Tus Yowynk (GTY - Helping Young People) adolescent service. This is a specialist service that works positively with those children at risk of care. There are three GTY teams based in each of our areas in the West, Mid and East of the county. These are multi-disciplinary teams providing intense support, often when families are approaching crisis.
Cornwall offers a dynamic place to develop your career as a Targeted Youth Worker. It is judged as an ‘good’ authority by Ofsted with a forward-thinking agenda. With excellent training and development opportunities for staff, the next stage of our improvement journey is about becoming a learning organisation, where every individual takes responsibility for the quality of their own work and expect to be held to account when there are persistent or serious shortfalls in the quality of practice.
The Role
This is a statutory role where you will undertake Family Help (Child in Need) Assessments and subsequent complete Child Support Plans, as well as working directly with young people. You will be part of a multi-agency team including Social Workers, Targeted Youth Workers, Youth Justice Service Officers, Functional Family Therapists a Clinical Psychologist, Specialist Youth Justice Nurses and Harmful Sexual Behavioural Practitioners.
You will be responsible for providing high quality interventions to enable young people at risk of care to remain in the community. This is a team that is committed to increasing standards and developing multi-agency working.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
You will have a JNC Qualification or equivalent in Youth & Community Work and a minimum of 2 years’ experience in delivering community based or targeted youth work. You will have a proven track record in working with adolescents to achieve good quality outcomes.
You will have a strong sense of the child’s lived experience at the centre of your practice. You will be familiar with critical reflection and have an ability to undertake assessments. You will also be familiar with the need for positive challenge and have a record of achieving good standards of practice.
This post will be located in the East of the county in Bodmin with expectations that the successful candidate wiil support children and families throughout the east of the county. This post requires an enhanced DBS check. Own transport essential
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
You will have a strong sense of the child’s lived experience at the centre of your practice. You will be familiar with critical reflection and have an ability to undertake assessments. You will also be familiar with the need for positive challenge and have a record of achieving good standards of practice.
This post will be located in the East of the county in Bodmin with expectations that the successful candidate wiil support children and families throughout the east of the county. This post requires an enhanced DBS check. Own transport essential
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.
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
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 Simon Moss at simon.moss@cornwall.gov.uk
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 careers@cornwall.gov.uk 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.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.