Youth and Family Support Worker - Our Greenwich Schools Support Hubs The Royal Borough of Greenwich is an exciting and fulfilling place to work. Our key focus in Children's Services is to ensure we provide excellent services for all our children, young people and their families. We are launching pioneering emotional wellbeing hubs in eight of our secondary schools. These hubs will give children of all backgrounds access to vital support for their wellbeing by addressing the root causes of persistent absence and non-attendance in school, especially where there are unmet emotional needs, caring responsibilities or contextual safeguarding issues. The hubs will act as a bridge between school, home and wider partnership agencies/services, and will work directly with the young person as well as providing comprehensive and intensive support to their wider family to ensure positive change is sustained. The Youth & Family Support Worker role is a varied one and as well as the delivery of impactful and relational practice, will also include providing support to primary and secondary schools through consultation, role-modelling and the delivery of professional development centred around our 'Practice Framework', which is rooted in Systemic Practice and Compassion Focussed approaches, and is adopted across Children's Services in Royal Greenwich. You will be responsible for delivering direct work and interventions, including practical support, that is child and family centred, ensuring that families have the right services around them to meet their needs and brings lasting positive change. You will be well supported by a Practice Leader and the unit's dedicated Practitioner who will both provide you with direction and support. The Role As a Youth & Family Support Worker, you will be working in Royal Greenwich secondary schools, supporting our children and their families. You must be able to develop supportive and highly-effective relationships with children and their families. You will work alongside a Practice Leader, Practitioner and a Systemic Practitioner, who will help embed systemic and therapeutic concepts into the work of the unit. Together, you will look at barriers and issues within children and families' lives, their strengths and needs, set goals and help develop and deliver bespoke, creative, and evidence-based interventions drawn from collaborative assessments; utilising the extensive and wide-ranging experience from across the unit. These roles are an opportunity to make a real difference. You will have: Experience of delivering evidence-based individual and group interventions to children, young people and/or adults. Ability to carry out practical support with children, young people and families, maintaining a positive perspective and demonstrating tenacity, persistence and compassion and using it as a vehicle to create sustainable change Ability and experience of building trusting, honest, supportive, and outcome-focused relationships with Children and families whilst maintaining professional boundaries. Working for Royal Greenwich Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from Crossrail to the Elizabeth line to the Uber boat, we're one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around. You will find we pride ourselves on having an innovative learning culture dedicated to improving outcomes for children, young people, care leavers and their families. With excellent training and great benefits, Royal Greenwich is the ideal place to progress your career. Our generous benefits package includes: Excellent pension scheme Innovative and supportive working culture with emphasis on professional development and staff wellbeing. Generous annual leave allowance starting at 29 days per year plus Bank Holidays Flexible and hybrid working arrangements with good IT equipment Ongoing professional development Vibrant Staff Networks and staff groups including Tackling Structural Racism, Future of Work or Equality Diversity and Inclusion Reduced rate gym membership Cycle to Work Scheme GreenwichCard entitling you to discounts at local businesses. Make a difference to our children's futures, your future and ours. Apply today. For more information and to make an application, please visit royalgreenwichcareers.com Closing Date: 31 July 2024 Royal Greenwich is an inclusive employer, our organisational diversity is one of our greatest strengths and it really matters to us. We want our workforce at all levels to reflect and respect the diversity of our communities, bringing richness, inclusivity and innovation to our work and the services we deliver. We actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We put equity at the heart of our recruitment and are committed to tackling discrimination in all forms. We are steadfast in promoting a diverse and inclusive community, an environment where we can all be ourselves, flourish and succeed. Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.