Cared4Children Co-ordinator - Oldham

inploi; Oldham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused charity is seeking an Emotional Health & Wellbeing Worker in Oldham to support children and their families. The role involves delivering emotional health support through 1:1 sessions and group work while coordinating services for children looked after by the Local Authority. The position offers professional development opportunities and promotes collaborative workshops with families to enhance emotional wellbeing. If you're dedicated to making a difference, this could be the role for you.

Benefits

Long Service Leave

Supervision sessions

Wellbeing Days

Volunteer Day

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in a supportive role.
• Knowledge of emotional wellbeing interventions.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 emotional health support for children and young people.
• Coordinate services for children looked after by the Local Authority.
• Engage families in workshops to support wellbeing.

Skills

Understanding of barriers affecting children and young people

Communication with multidisciplinary teams

Facilitating group work and workshops

Emotional support skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification in health, social care, or education

Job description

“Early Break is a young people and family charity that believes excellence at all points of delivery is a requirement. If you take pride in your work, are hardworking, want to be professionally challenged and are passionate to make a difference in the lives of others then our organisation could well suit you. We have a strong set of values determined by staff which we continuously work towards. It is our shared expectation our staff will be “professionally curious” both in their delivery and ongoing professional development.”

Vicky Maloney, CEO

Emotional Health & Wellbeing Worker, Cared4Children - Oldham

Full time - 37 hours per week

Key Focus

The role will offer advice and signposting interventions for children and their families, as well as offering support with emotional health and wellbeing needs by offering regular group work for primary and secondary aged young people.

Delivery of effective 1:1 emotional health and wellbeing support with children and young people, who are looked after, with emotional health and wellbeing needs across the community and education settings.

Using a combination of 1:1 support and group work, the post holder will offer de‑escalation support, integrated emotional health and wellbeing interventions, solution‑focussed and resilience building work with children, young people and their carers/families across Oldham.

Ensuring a menu of offer is available and linked to our wider partnership for Oldham LAC offer e.g. Childrens Rights service

You will be a worker who is accountable and responsible within your own practice. You will make use of the strong support network this role offers.

You will have a good understanding of the barriers and issues affecting children and young people and work closely with organisations and services that support or work with children and young people, their family, carers and schools. Together with CYP, organisations working with them, schools, parents, family and carers co‑design workshops, interventions and come up with solutions to support the wellbeing of CYP. Working with them to develop workshops and sessions that address their needs to support the development of culturally sensitive offers further and improve accessibility of existing offers.

Key Deliverables

• Coordination of a coherent service for children, young people and their families/carers where children are looked after by the Local Authority in line with our recognised Thrive approach.
• Work alongside the project worker to manage referrals and demand for children and their carers via a SPOC (single point of access arrangement) and ensure a responsive consultation offer for foster families.
• Lead and develop our offer by providing group work, drop‑in sessions and digital offers within Early Break premises and community venues across Oldham alongside the project worker.
• Ensure pathways and sequencing makes the most of constrained resources to ensure right help at right time including coordination and support for children and young people who are placed out of area.
• Alongside our wider partnership in children’s rights and advocacy ensure training offers re made available to Oldham’s in house residential and semi‑independent provisions.
• Engage young people with emotional health and wellbeing needs and offer them appropriate interventions and/or support them into the wider CYP mental health system, Early Break core services or other service provisions.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside Children’s Social Care and health colleagues to support emotional wellbeing of children and young people who are looked‑after across the borough.
• Support and encourage young people and their families to take on board safety messages as regards risk taking behaviour and own vulnerability including self‑injury, offending behaviour, complex safeguarding and other.
• Prepare, plan and deliver education sessions and group work to young people and their carers across the community as per need.
• Adhere to Early Break policies on Safeguarding including identification and referral, as well as participating in any subsequent action in relation to these.
• Work with a range of partners in ensuring seamless access to support for children and young people.
• Maintain and update levels of knowledge and understanding of issues relevant to young people’s lives through reading, eLearning and training offered by the Mental Health system, Early Break and other agencies, as opportunities arise.
• Ensure all necessary administration/sessional recordings are complete, including maintenance of written records and Nebula database.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the work of the role and the Service.
• Implement Service Health and Safety Policy/Service Guidelines including risk assessments.
• Attend relevant internal and external meetings supportive to the role.
• Engage in professional development opportunities and training as required/appropriate.
• Have an understanding of and the ability to maintain confidentiality.

Closing Date: Thursday, 15th January 2026 @ 12 noon

Interview Date: Thursday, 22nd January 2026

Company Benefits

• Long Service Leave: an additional 4 weeks paid holiday after every 3 years in service (subject to attendance thresholds).
• Supervision: 10 sessions per 12 months with an external supervisor to facilitate reflective practice.
• Wellbeing Day: 2 x half days of additional paid leave every 12 months as a ‘wellbeing day’ for staff.
• Volunteer Day: 1 day additional paid leave every 12 months as a ‘volunteer’ opportunity with another third sector organisation of your choice.

Further information and application form can be found at https://earlybreak.co.uk/early-break-jobs#job-vacancies. Please email [e-mail] or call 0161 723 3880 if you would like to discuss the role in more detail.