Contextual Safeguarding Youth Support Worker

Enfield Council; Enfield; Vor Ort; GBP 29.000 - 31.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

LGPS Pension

32 days leave

Hybrid/Remote working

Season ticket loan

Training & development

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & leisure discounts

Sabbatical

Zusammenfassung

Enfield Council is recruiting for a part-time Youth Development role based at Thomas Hardy House. The post is 18 hours per week, with the full-time salary quoted and pro-rata applied.

The team supports young people aged 11–19 (up to 25 for those with disabilities), using contextual safeguarding approaches across evenings and weekends to engage and empower youth. The post is within the People department, Youth Development Team, offering a chance to contribute to safeguarding and youth outcomes

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

This is a part-time position (18 hours per week). The salary quoted is for a full-time post (36 hours) and it will be pro-rata.

Reference Number: PEO-002729

Salary: Y&C SUP 2 £28,670 - £30,961

Advert closing date: 24/11/2026

Department: People

Location: Thomas Hardy House

Contract type: Permanent

Division: Youth Development Team

Hours Per Week: 18

Contract End Date: N/A

Interview Date: Not specified

Enfield Youth Development Service is located within the Children and Families division part of the Youth People and Community Safety Department and well placed to support young people with additional needs, including 'children in need', those on a child plan of protection, children looked after and young people engaging in risky behaviour. Youth Development service works with young people age 11-19, (and up to 25 with young people with disabilities and learning difficulties). The key aim of youth work is to provide personal and social development opportunities to children and young people to help them to transition to adulthood and achieve the best outcomes, whilst promoting good citizenship.

As part of the contextual safeguarding approach, you will use a variety of youth work methods to positively engage young people such as detached and outreach youth work, mentoring, advocacy, provision of information, advice and guidance, one to one work, group work and project work. You will be part of contextual safeguarding youth work team, line managed by Youth Service and directed in its work by the Contextual Safeguarding Hub to target identified hot spots and young people at risk. Our ambition is that through a provision of contextual safeguarding youth work approach, we will reduce young people' risk to extra familial abuse outside of home whilst strengthening their resilience and ability to make informed and safe life choices.

You will work with young people in a wide range of settings such as streets, local parks, communities, neighbourhoods, schools and will use a variety of youth work methods to positively engage young people. You will be required to undertake evening and weekend work in accordance with service requirements.

You will be required to engage identified young people through establishing a relationship of trust in one to one support, group work, projects and activities that promote learning, personal and social development and above all enable young people to make informed choices to stay safe in contexts outside of their family and home.

You will deliver specific and bespoke interventions tailored to young people' needs and abilities in a variety of settings to reduce young people' engagement in risky behaviour and risk of harm in response to the themes/needs identified by Contextual Safeguarding Hub.

As part of your role you will be required to share information and work collaboratively with key professional agencies involved in contextual safeguarding such as social workers, Police, schools/PRUs/Colleges, youth offending service, community safety, health, housing and others. Support and challenge young people' attitudes and action towards issues such as unemployment, drugs, poverty, racism, sexism, disability, health, sexuality, criminality, peer, parental and community pressure.

Enfield's Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
• 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do – by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we would love to hear from you.

If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.