Targeted Youth Worker

The Service & Team

We are looking for a full time Targeted Youth Worker to work in the Gweres Tus Yowynk (GTY – Helping Young People) adolescent service. This is a specialist service that works positively with those children at risk of care. There are three GTY teams based in each of our areas in the West, Mid and East of the county. These are multi-disciplinary teams providing intense support, often when families are approaching crisis.

Cornwall offers a dynamic place to develop your career as a Targeted Youth Worker. It is judged as an ‘good’ authority by Ofsted with a forward-thinking agenda. With excellent training and development opportunities for staff, the next stage of our improvement journey is about becoming a learning organisation, where every individual takes responsibility for the quality of their own work and can be held to account when there are persistent or serious shortfalls in the quality of practice.

This is a statutory role where you will undertake Family Help (Child in Need) Assessments and subsequent complete Child Support Plans, as well as working directly with young people. You will be part of a multi-agency team including Social Workers, Targeted Youth Workers, Youth Justice Service Officers, Functional Family Therapists, a Clinical Psychologist, Specialist Youth Justice Nurses and Harmful Sexual Behavioural Practitioners.

You will be responsible for providing high quality interventions to enable young people at risk of care to remain in the community. This team is committed to increasing standards and developing multi-agency working. This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS.

You will have a JNC Qualification or equivalent in Youth & Community Work and a minimum of 2 years’ experience in delivering community based or targeted youth work. You will have a proven track record in working with adolescents to achieve good quality outcomes.

You will have a strong sense of the child’s lived experience at the centre of your practice. You will be familiar with critical reflection and have an ability to undertake assessments. You will also be familiar with the need for positive challenge and have a record of achieving good standards of practice.

This post will be located in the East of the county in Bodmin with expectations that the successful candidate will support children and families throughout the east of the county. This post requires an enhanced DBS check. Own transport essential.

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here. We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or…