Salary Band: £26,500 – £28,500 FTE per annum (pro rata)
Full Time Hours: 37 per week
Location: Worcester, Worcestershire
Contract Type: Permanent
This is a rolling advert.
Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the advert will close upon successful appointment.
Make a Life-Changing Difference to Children and Young People
About the role
Every day, children and young people across Herefordshire and Worcestershire face challenges including trauma, emotional distress, family breakdown, exploitation, mental health difficulties and safeguarding concerns.
As a Children & Young People Intensive Support Practitioner at ONSIDE, you’ll be there when they need support most.
Working alongside some of the area’s most vulnerable young people, you’ll build trusted relationships, reduce risks, support recovery and help children move towards safer, more positive futures.
You will support children & young people experiencing complex and high-risk situations, such as but not limited to; placement breakdown, exclusion, offending, self-harm, exploitation or crisis escalation. You will build trusted relationships that help young people feel safe, heard and understood, deliver trauma-informed interventions tailored to individual needs.
You will also identify and respond to safeguarding concerns and undertake risk assessments, work collaboratively with families, schools and partner agencies and help reduce crisis, improve stability and support positive outcomes for children and young people.
No two days are the same, but every day offers the opportunity to make a genuine difference in a young person’s life.
If you’re passionate about safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and creating lasting change, we’d love to hear from you.
Learn More About Our Work
To learn more about the work we do please visit:
- https://www.onside-advocacy.org.uk/
- https://www.onside-advocacy.org.uk/melo
ONSIDE’s Benefits
- 26 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
- Pension Scheme
- Company Sick Pay Scheme (after qualifying service)
- Additional Maternity & Paternity Pay (after qualifying service)
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to premium Calm App
- Employee Engagement Forum to ensure our employee’s voices are heard!
- Your ‘Birthday Day’ Off
- Supportive working environment & good work/life balance culture
- Support with continuous professional development
Who are we looking for?
You may already work as a Youth Support Worker, Family Support Worker, Children’s Practitioner, Safeguarding Practitioner or in a similar role supporting vulnerable children and young people.
As a Children & Young People Intensive Support Practitioner you will bring, experience supporting children and young people with complex needs, along with strong safeguarding knowledge and confidence managing risk.
You will need an understanding of trauma-informed approaches, excellent relationship-building skills.
If you are resilient and have emotional intelligence, professional curiosity, have a creative and solution-focused approach and most importantly, you have a passion about helping children and young people achieve positive outcomes, this could be the role for you.
Someone like you?
If you embrace difference and operate with integrity.
If you are committed to fairness and justice.
If you are creative in your approach, can think around problems and find new ways to solve them.
If you’re looking for a job that you can be proud of and be passionate about. Please submit your application.
These values run through our entire organisation. ONSIDE is a creative, collaborative community where people feel free to share new ideas or ask for support. If something’s not right, we don’t just change it. We change ourselves too.
Join our amazing team of skilled staff and volunteers make a difference to the lives of over 15,000 people a year!
Want to know more?
Please get in touch with Sarah Hudson, Safeguarding & Professional Guidance Manager, by email [email protected].
Please also access our guidance on how to apply to ONSIDE on our advert pages.
This is a rolling recruitment campaign. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and interviews arranged throughout the advertising period.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable candidate has been appointed, so early applications are encouraged.
Applicants who have previously applied for this role within the last 6 months do not need to reapply, as their application remains on record and has already been reviewed.
