Emotional Wellbeing Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £30,024 i £33,699 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Lichfield, Stafford, Newcastle, Tamworth bases, ST16 2DH |
| Cwmni: | Staffordshire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | staffscc/TP/608/3675 |
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Are you passionate about supporting Care Leavers to thrive as they transition to independent living? Do you have experience working with young people with complex needs? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We are looking for 4 part time Family Practitioners (Emotional Wellbeing) to join our dedicated Leaving Care Teams in Staffordshire. This role focuses on providing targeted emotional wellbeing support to care leavers aged 18+, helping them build resilience, regulate emotions, and feel empowered.
This role may involve occasional evening work and could involve travel to any district in Staffordshire, also sometimes could involve travel out of county. We do offer a flexible working policy.
If you are interested in full-time hours, please still apply as we will consider a full time role, working across 2 leaving care teams for the ideal candidate
Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner, your main responsibilities will include:
- Work alongside young people's allocated PA's to support young people to meet the aims of their Pathway Plans
- Work closely with care leavers, building trusting relationships and offering one-to-one support as well as some group work when needed
- Complete emotional wellbeing assessments
- Contribute to multi-agency support plans
The Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner is an exciting new role that we are pleased to be able to offer to support our Care Leavers. As this is a new role, there will certainly be scope for this role to evolve and change over time, as the service demands and we will encourage you to contribute to the growth and development of this role, in co-ordination with our Leaving Care Senior Practitioners.
The Ideal CandidateIf you’ve worked with young people facing mental health challenges, trauma, or emotional distress, your experience is highly valued. You’ll need to be compassionate, resilient, and skilled in building rapport with vulnerable individuals. Creativity is key in this role, and we encourage innovative approaches such as arts-based, digital, and experiential techniques to engage young people meaningfully. Your support will help them navigate life’s challenges, develop emotional regulation skills, and strengthen their sense of identity.
This is a flexible role that may involve occasional evening work and travel across a double district or out-of-area. You’ll be part of a supportive team committed to making a real difference in the lives of care-experienced young adults.
We welcome applications from individuals with transferable skills, especially those from: Housing, Nursing, Armed Forces, Police Services.
“We’re happy to talk flexible working”
Interviews date to be confirmed but expected to be on 30th and 31st October 2025
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Lynsey Dawson, Care Leavers Offer Team Manger at Lynsey.dawson@staffordshire.gov.uk
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County CouncilWe are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
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