Children’s Support Practitioner

Onside Advocacy; Worcester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company sick pay scheme

Maternity & Paternity pay

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Calm App access

Employee Engagement Forum

Supportive working environment

Continuous professional development

Job summary

ONSIDE is seeking a Children & Young People Intensive Support Practitioner to work with vulnerable youths across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. You’ll reduce risks, support recovery, and help children move toward safer futures through trauma-informed interventions and strong relationships.

Experience with complex needs and safeguarding knowledge is essential. You’ll collaborate with families, schools and partner agencies to promote positive outcomes and resilience in challenging circumstances.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting children and young people with complex needs.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and risk management ability.
• Understanding trauma-informed approaches and building trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed, evidence-based support to vulnerable children and young people.
• Identify safeguarding concerns, undertake risk assessments and respond appropriately.
• Collaborate with families, schools and partner agencies to improve stability and outcomes.

Skills

Trauma-informed practice

Safeguarding knowledge

Relationship-building

Emotional intelligence

Risk management

Job description

Full Time Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

This is a rolling advert.

Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the advert will close upon successful appointment.

Make a Life-Changing Difference to Children and Young People

About the role

Every day, children and young people across Herefordshire and Worcestershire face challenges including trauma, emotional distress, family breakdown, exploitation, mental health difficulties and safeguarding concerns.

As a Children & Young People Intensive Support Practitioner at ONSIDE, you’ll be there when they need support most.

Working alongside some of the area’s most vulnerable young people, you’ll build trusted relationships, reduce risks, support recovery and help children move towards safer, more positive futures.

You will support children & young people experiencing complex and high-risk situations, such as but not limited to; placement breakdown, exclusion, offending, self-harm, exploitation or crisis escalation. You will build trusted relationships that help young people feel safe, heard and understood, deliver trauma-informed interventions tailored to individual needs.

You will also identify and respond to safeguarding concerns and undertake risk assessments, work collaboratively with families, schools and partner agencies and help reduce crisis, improve stability and support positive outcomes for children and young people.

No two days are the same, but every day offers the opportunity to make a genuine difference in a young person’s life.

If you’re passionate about safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and creating lasting change, we’d love to hear from you.

Learn More About Our Work

To learn more about the work we do please visit:

• Company Sick Pay Scheme (after qualifying service)
• Additional Maternity & Paternity Pay (after qualifying service)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to premium Calm App
• Employee Engagement Forum to ensure our employee’s voices are heard!
• Supportive working environment & good work/life balance culture
• Support with continuous professional development

Who are we looking for?

You may already work as a Youth Support Worker, Family Support Worker, Children’s Practitioner, Safeguarding Practitioner or in a similar role supporting vulnerable children and young people.

As a Children & Young People Intensive Support Practitioner you will bring, experience supporting children and young people with complex needs, along with strong safeguarding knowledge and confidence managing risk.

You will need an understanding of trauma-informed approaches, excellent relationship-building skills.

If you are resilient and have emotional intelligence, professional curiosity, have a creative and solution-focused approach and most importantly, you have a passion about helping children and young people achieve positive outcomes, this could be the role for you.

Someone like you?

If you embrace difference and operate with integrity.

If you are committed to fairness and justice.

If you creative in your approach, can think around problems and find new ways to solve them.

These values run through our entire organisation. ONSIDE is a creative, collaborative community where people feel free to share new ideas or ask for support. If something’s not right, we don’t just change it. We change ourselves too.

Join our amazing team of skilled staff and volunteers make a difference to the lives of over 15,000 people a year!

This is a rolling recruitment campaign. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and interviews arranged throughout the advertising period.

Applicants who have previously applied for this role within the last 6 months do not need to reapply, as their application remains on record and has already been reviewed.