Senior Early Help Adolescent Unit Worker

Kent County Council; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Home working

Offices across the county

Regular supervision and training

Employee rewards packages

29–30 days annual leave

Job summary

Kent County Council is seeking a Senior Early Help Adolescent Unit Worker to support vulnerable youths across the county. The role emphasizes trauma-informed practice, collaboration with families and partner agencies, and targeted interventions to promote safe home environments.

The post offers regular supervision, specialist adolescent training, and flexible working options including home working and office sites. 29–30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a concessionary day are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children, young people and families in a similar role or setting.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection and relevant legislation.
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills; good IT skills.
• Ability to travel across a wide geographical area.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking assessments, making plans, and providing intensive support.
• Mediate and promote young people remaining safely at home with their family and support networks.
• Linking young people in with Family Hubs and other partner agencies to ensure needs are met.
• Gather and interpret information/data from a range of sources.

Job description

Senior Early Help Adolescent Unit Worker

Role Responsibility

Do you want to work in a Good Local Authority? Ofsted have recently inspected Kent and were impressed with the Adolescent Service response and support to children at risk of contextualised harm. We are now looking for a Senior Adolescent Early Help Worker who can lend their skills and experience to help us build on our successes.

The Integrated Adolescent Service recognises that adolescents should be given a bespoke offer of support. We want professionals capable of bringing understanding and emotional intelligence to everything they do. The service promotes a practice philosophy which seeks to empower young people and their families, building on individual strengths, and helping them to develop strategies which support them to understand, manage, and respond to the difficulties they face.

Our practitioners need to be resilient and persistent; be solution-focussed; look past challenging behaviours; build positive relationships with adolescents and their carers, and to inspire young people to reach their potential. We want practitioners who really care about adolescents and who understand the impact of trauma, and how to respond to contextual harm.

We all work together to support each other and there are regular social activities and away days for learning and development. We value that our staff are committed and often work above and beyond, we therefore offer a flexible approach to working including offices across the county, home working, and flexible hours.

Your role

Successful candidates will be paid £36,264 per annum. The successful candidate will receive quality regular supervision, specialist adolescent training and a case load tailored to your experience and skills. There are opportunities for flexible working arrangements and access to employee rewards packages. You will receive 29 - 30 days annual leave per year dependent on your previous years of Local Government continuous service. Bank holidays and 1 concessionary day are in addition to this entitlement.

This role will involve undertaking assessments, making plans, and providing intensive support, you will seek to mediate and promote young people remaining safely at home with their family and support networks. You will support young people to manage extra familial risk, as well as linking young people in with Family Hubs and other partner agencies to ensure their needs are met in a holistic way

You will be able to gather and interpret information/data from a range of sources, and you will have knowledge of safeguarding and child protection and relevant legislation and regulatory frameworks. This role requires strong interpersonal and organisational skills; good IT skills are essential. You will have significant experience of working with children, young people and families in a similar role or setting.

The ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day is essential.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

For an informal discussion or to find out more please, contact Matt Bullock, Unit Lead - [e-mail]

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.