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Children and Families Support Worker
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,409 to £28,163 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Location: | Selby, North Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | North Yorkshire Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Children and Families Support Worker
Salary: £26,409 - £28,163 per annum, pro rata
Grade: F
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Weekend Working: Yes
Location: Selby Area
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join North Yorkshire Council’s Early Help Service in the Selby area as a Children and Families Support Worker. This involves working in partnership to deliver a wide range of intervention and support to parents, carers, children, young people and their families to improve outcomes. This includes supervising Court directed contacts for children and families open to Children’s Social Care, group sessions and virtual delivery of parenting programmes. You will also work closely with the community and voluntary sectors to identify partnership ways of working to improve outcomes for Children and their families.
Based in Selby Children & Family Hub, but with some home working included, you will mainly work across the Selby district. The role may also involve supporting colleagues across other areas and travel further afield where necessary to support children and families.
The successful candidates will have experience of working directly with vulnerable children or young people and their families. Due to the nature of the service delivery the successful post holder will be working mainly afternoons and early evenings with occasional weekends. The hours and days to be discussed at the interview. Candidates must be highly focussed, committed, and adaptable individuals who have an aptitude to work in a fast-paced environment and have good organisational and communication skills.
North Yorkshire’s Children and Families service has an excellent reputation and received Outstanding across all areas when inspected by Ofsted. This role offers the successful candidate a unique opportunity to join one of the best Children and Families services in the country, as well as the opportunity to develop your professional skills and your career in an exciting, challenging but supportive environment.
For more information or to ask any questions please contact Debbie Pollard on debbie.pollard@northyorks.gov.uk or 0779216925 or Claire Morton on claire.2.morton@northyorks.gov.uk or 07969256218.
Key Dates:
Closing date: 13th May 2025
Interview date: 19th May 2025.
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions, we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. Enquiries regarding the vacancy or practices should be made directly with the third party.
Salary: £26,409 - £28,163 per annum, pro rata
Grade: F
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Weekend Working: Yes
Location: Selby Area
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join North Yorkshire Council’s Early Help Service in the Selby area as a Children and Families Support Worker. This involves working in partnership to deliver a wide range of intervention and support to parents, carers, children, young people and their families to improve outcomes. This includes supervising Court directed contacts for children and families open to Children’s Social Care, group sessions and virtual delivery of parenting programmes. You will also work closely with the community and voluntary sectors to identify partnership ways of working to improve outcomes for Children and their families.
Based in Selby Children & Family Hub, but with some home working included, you will mainly work across the Selby district. The role may also involve supporting colleagues across other areas and travel further afield where necessary to support children and families.
The successful candidates will have experience of working directly with vulnerable children or young people and their families. Due to the nature of the service delivery the successful post holder will be working mainly afternoons and early evenings with occasional weekends. The hours and days to be discussed at the interview. Candidates must be highly focussed, committed, and adaptable individuals who have an aptitude to work in a fast-paced environment and have good organisational and communication skills.
North Yorkshire’s Children and Families service has an excellent reputation and received Outstanding across all areas when inspected by Ofsted. This role offers the successful candidate a unique opportunity to join one of the best Children and Families services in the country, as well as the opportunity to develop your professional skills and your career in an exciting, challenging but supportive environment.
For more information or to ask any questions please contact Debbie Pollard on debbie.pollard@northyorks.gov.uk or 0779216925 or Claire Morton on claire.2.morton@northyorks.gov.uk or 07969256218.
Key Dates:
Closing date: 13th May 2025
Interview date: 19th May 2025.
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions, we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. Enquiries regarding the vacancy or practices should be made directly with the third party.