Senior Youth Worker

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA /countywide role

Worker Category: Field Based Worker

Salary: £37,410- £40,083 per annum

Working Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 20th October 2024

Interview Date(s): Interviews will take place on Thursday 14th November.Please note, there will be a Formal Panel interview and Young People's panel interview. All candidates would need to be available for both panels and be able to allow up to 2 hours for the interview process

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our service as a JNC qualified Senior Youth Worker within the Youth & Justice service.

Leicestershire Youth and Justice service offers a range of statutory and non-statutory interventions for children & young people experiencing difficulties that cannot be supported by universal services alone. We work with children 11-18 yrs who are experiencing a variety of challenges and who need our support

This post is a countywide role (based at County Hall) working across our Youth and Justice service. You will work alongside your peers, team leaders and our wider staff team's.

You will be part of a small, supportive and creative team of Senior Youth Workers who all lead on different areas of work across the county, as well as holding a small caseload of our higher risk vulnerable children that could be either statutory or voluntary engagement

Your lead area role will be supporting our team leaders in the accessing youth work referrals for our service to ensure that our children & young people are offered the right level of support & intervention. We are looking for someone who is persistent, engaging and is able to build relationships swiftly whilst being open, honest & transparent with the children & families you engage with.

What we offer:

• Mileage paid at 45p per mile.
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• DBS check paid for by us.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Working for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.
• Working for an Outstanding Authority (OFSTED 2024)

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

• A recognised JNC Qualification AND significant experience working with children and families.
• Experience & evidence of developing, planning, and implementing creative and innovative interventions tailored to meet the individual needs of children, young people and their families/ carers based on youth work principles.
• Knowledge and experience of gathering child's voice and how children can participate and influence decision-making.
• Experience of writing assessments, completing robust risk assessments, report writing and use of case management systems.
• Demonstrable knowledge & experience of understanding the risk associated with harm, offending and re-offending.
• Experience of working with complex families & the ability to communicate clearly & quickly whilst having the ability to actively listen, critical think which then enables you to create and deliver informed decisions and assessments.
• Experience of working closely with partner agencies & professional across a variety of sectors to ensure that children & their parents / carers receive the right service for them to meet their needs

Please note:

• A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
• A full driving licence & access to a car is required for this post
• The post requires Flexible working that sometimes is outside of the normal working 9-5 day and will include am element of evening working .

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Penny Pugh - Team & Partnership manager

Telephone: 07966 111021

Email: penny.pugh@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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