Targeted Youth Support Worker

Targeted Youth Support Worker
The Service & Team:
We have vacancies across the West, in our Family and Assessment Support Team in Penzance and in the Penwith (Penzance, Hayle, St Ives and surrounding areas) and Kerrier (Camborne, Redruth, Pool, Helston and the Lizard and surrounding areas Early Help Teams.
FAS Penzance 1 x Full time
Early Help Penwith 1 x FTE & 1x 0.5 (2.5 days)
Early Help Kerrier 1 x FTE & 1x 0.5 (2.5 days)
The Role:
Targeted Youth Workers (TYW) will carry out assessments with children and families, devise plans of intervention, undertake direct work.
TYWs can make a real difference to the young people they support. Their work seeks to promote young people's personal and social development and enable them to have a voice. Youth work gives young people the confidence and life skills they need to live, learn, work and achieve. It offers young people safe spaces to explore their identity, experience decision-making, and increase their confidence.
TYWs work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to support vulnerable young people and their families at times of increased need and difficulty. We take a relational and strengths-based approach. TYW will have a caseload of young people they completed direct 1-2-1 work with, but also offer drop-in sessions at School for any young person that wishes to speak to a Youth Worker. Youth Workers also deliver group work around a theme or issue and they will deliver on parenting programmes for parents of teenagers. You will need to have proven track record of working with young people as well as a robust understanding of the challenges young people face.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What you'll need to succeed:
Targeted Youth Workers are expected to hold a JNC Youth Work qualification (or be on the pathway to achieving this) or a Secondary Teaching qualification (with some experience of working informally with young people).
We are looking for enthusiastic Youth Workers who are able to understand how the experiences of young people can shape their lives, be able to work alongside them to develop effective support plans.
About Us:
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.