Contextual Safeguarding Youth Support Worker in Enfield

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. This is a part time position (18 hours per week), with a pro-rata salary range of £14,335 - £15,481 per annum.

Enfield Youth Development Service works with young people aged 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 transition to adulthood and achieve the best outcomes, whilst promoting good citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Use a variety of youth work methods to positively engage young people (e.g., detached and outreach youth work, mentoring, advocacy, information, advice and guidance, one-to-one work, group work and project work).
• Be part of the contextual safeguarding youth work team, line managed by the Youth Service and directed by the Contextual Safeguarding Hub to target identified hot spots and at-risk young people.
• Work in a range of settings (streets, parks, communities, neighbourhoods, schools) and undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Engage identified young people through one-to-one support, group work, projects and activities that promote learning and personal and social development and enable informed, safe choices outside the home.
• Deliver bespoke interventions tailored to young people’s needs to reduce engagement in risky behaviour and risk of harm, in line with themes/needs identified by the Contextual Safeguarding Hub.
• Share information and collaborate with key professional agencies involved in contextual safeguarding (e.g., social workers, Police, schools/PRUs/Colleges, youth offending service, community safety, health, housing).
• Support and challenge young people’s attitudes and actions on issues such as unemployment, drugs, poverty, racism, sexism, disability, health, sexuality, criminality, peer and parental pressure.

Requirements / Context

As part of your role you will be required to work with young people to establish a relationship of trust and to deliver activities in various settings. You will be expected to align with the service requirements for evening and weekend work and to contribute to safeguarding standards.

Contact and Additional Information

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Joanne Mougis on 07929872848 or joanne.mougis@enfield.gov.uk for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team. If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Natalia Bakhanova, Recruitment & Onboarding Advisor, on 02081321310 or natalia.bakhanova@enfield.gov.uk.

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.

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.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.

Benefits

• 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’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, here to find out more.

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