Early Intervention Worker Jobs in Birmingham
This is a new role to support Youth Futures achieve their ambition as part of their strategy to influence employer behaviour and practice to support more young people into employment.
- We are looking for a strong organiser, someone who can collaborate with members of the team and wider colleagues to ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
- Project management and co-ordination is key, helping to develop our internal processes to plan and manage our work and bring more transparency across the organisation.
- The role will also include engagement with employers and senior representatives from our employer networks, ensuring that we deliver end-to-end relationship management.
- This role will have some responsibility for partnership contracting and coordinating legal queries and responses, so attention to detail and accuracy is key and working collaboratively with colleagues in key directorates.
This role can be based at any of our hubs located in Birmingham, Leeds or London. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.
For more information on this role, please download the Recruitment Pack.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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CV's will not be accepted. Applicants must complete and submit thier application form via the HR portal.
Role Purpose:
To work with families 0-5 within the 0-19 model, with flexibility for 5-19 and a “whole family approach” Including pre-birth, to provide Early Help interventions to meet identified needs of families both in their home on a one-to-one basis and in other settings, using group work.
Main functions
1.To empower families to engage in support, enabling a person-centred solution-focused approach to family support where the service user guides the package of support.
2. Conduct comprehensive assessments to understand the needs, strengths and challenges of families accessing the service.
3. To support families with identified support needs, holding a caseload and taking part in case supervision.
4. To provide families with information, advice and guidance and signposting on various issues.
5. To provide family support drop-in sessions enabling families to access support
6. To identify barriers to accessing services within the local community and contribute to overcoming these barriers for all target and disadvantaged groups.
7. To use a solution-focused approach when working with families who are resistant to engage with the service ensuring the child’s welfare remains paramount at all times.
8. To facilitate and deliver support and interventions which improve parental capacity and family relationships for families with under 5s within the 0-19 model, with flexibility for 5-19 and a “whole family approach”.
9. To develop programmes of work with families which produce the outcomes required in assessments or plans.
10. To ensure effective Child and parent engagement and Child’s Voice is paramount in any decision-making.
11. To refer families to specialists and other services when appropriate and with consent in accordance with required protocols and monitor family progress and engagement with referred services.
12. To provide guidance and support on childcare, child development, child safety, nutrition, and early education.
13. To deliver group intervention programmes that may include evidence-based programmes: i.e. parenting, domestic abuse etc
14. To attend multi-agency meetings as required and provide reports.
15. Maintain accurate and confidential records of family interactions, services provided and outcomes achieved.
16. To plan, and coordinate Antenatal/ Perinatal Mental Health Interventions.
17. To engage with local partners and communities to promote public health messages in relation to Infant Feeding.
18. To ensure appropriate referral and signposting of women for breastfeeding support when necessary.
19. To provide support to women who are breastfeeding, encouraging the development of group support as required.
20. Communicate key messages about breastfeeding; in relation to attachment and bonding with their baby, providing support in a clear and empathetic manner as required
21. Maintain effective links with internal and external support services, staying up to date with available support services in relation to emotional health and well-being.
22. To lead on planning, delivery and evaluation of services, in relation to the emotional health of parents, including co-production.
23. To work directly with individual parents and children to provide structured intervention and support around emotional health/well-being and behaviour.
24. To work flexibly and deliver services across the service as directed and to undertake any other duties commensurate with the role and responsibilities of the post as agreed with your line manager
Benefits
29 days annual leave plus 4 days concessionary days (over Christmas) plus bank holidays. Pro rated for part time staff.
Employee assistance programme
Company pension
Option to join BHSF health cash plan
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Ref: KPF-251
Closing date 26th March 2025
Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven track record of engaging positively with young people, families, offenders, or other vulnerable groups? Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and the ability to assess effectively clients’ needs?
If so, St Giles is looking for a Key Worker to join our team and provide a high-level service to vulnerable or at-risk young people across the different levels of need and support from early help to children and young people in care.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As a proactive member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will develop support plans and promote programmes of social education, activities, support, advice, and information, using a range of multi-sensory methods. You will be expected to build positive relationships and promote the value of lifestyle changes to the client group and their families and work directly with them to promote positive change, build resilience, reduce risks, and prevent young people from experiencing significant harm.
We will also count on you to contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments of children and families in need of help and support and to provide both proactive planned programmes of support, and an intensive service to young people and their families in crisis. Supporting and coaching young people in connecting with community resources and services is also a key aspect of this role, as is maintaining accurate records of support and interventions.
What we are looking for
- Proven record of engaging successfully with challenging people, for example people who have complex needs, people who are reluctant to discuss their needs, and people who are angry and confused
- Experience in negotiating with partner agencies to establish links to further the aims of a project
- Experience of working to targets and recording information and statistics to enable effective monitoring of performance against targets
- Knowledge of the client group and the challenges and motivations of young people
- A sound knowledge of gangs and ‘County Lines’ (drug distribution networks) and how they operate
- Excellent interpersonal, prioritisation and communication skills, verbal and written.
Please note: this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply please click the apply button.
Closing date 26th March 2025.
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Youth Liaison Officer – North Wales (Anglesey / Bangor area)
Location: Homebased with travel within North Wales
Salary: £18,731 pro-rata including holiday pay, based on a working pattern of 30hrs/week across 4 or 5 days, and 39 weeks/year. £26,700 FTE
Hours: 30hrs a week, working term time only (39 weeks/year). The hours and days of coverage may be negotiable for the right candidate and experience.
Contract: Permanent
Ideal opportunity if you enjoy working with young people and want to help them be the best they can be.
Flexible and rewarding position within a dedicated and supportive team, working together to develop teamwork, leadership, and employability skills that inspire the next generation to aim high.
Join our team and make a real difference!
Our charity, the Jon Egging Trust, is looking for a highly motivated individual with experience of working with young people, to plan and deliver inspiring teamwork, leadership and employability programmes in North Wales. The role involves liaising with school staff, local partners (including the Military and local businesses) and volunteers to ensure programmes meet the needs of our young people and is supported by the Regional Manager, North Wales.
The successful candidate will be based from home with a requirement to travel to partner schools and business sites in and around Anglesey, Bangor and occasionally along the A55 corridor. Fuel expenses are paid and travel time is included as part of working hours. Working with secondary schools to provide early support programmes, core delivery time is usually within the school working day and during school terms only. All other working hours can be managed with flexibility by the post holder to ensure that all administrative tasks are completed as required.
About the Jon Egging Trust (JET)
At JET, we support vulnerable young people to get back on track and realise their potential; more than 30,000 young people right across the UK to date, and there’s so much more we can do. We’re an organisation that really values its people and we’re immensely proud that our team culture is based on caring and raising each other up.
Our benefits package includes:
- Flexible working
- Enhanced annual leave
- Homeworking allowance
- Occupational pension scheme
- Occupational sickness scheme
- Special paid leave provision
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Child and adult at risk protection policy statement
The Jon Egging Trust is committed to providing a safe and positive environment for everyone involved in its services and activities. The Trust takes its extended moral and legal duty of care very seriously in relation to children, young people, staff and volunteers. We seek to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children and to protect them from harm or abuse when they engage in any of our activities. JET expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.
To apply
Please complete our online application form.
The closing date is Sunday 23rd March at 23.30 hrs.
Interviews will be held in person at one of our partner schools in North Wales week commencing 31st March 2025, location to be confirmed.
Please note: To become an employee at JET you must be able to produce evidence of your Right to Work in the UK and a satisfactory DBS check – enhanced with children’s barred – is required for this role.
On 20th August 2011, Flt Lt Jon Egging lost his life whilst completing a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival. He was coming to the end of his first year with the world-famous Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, flying in the position of Red 4.
Jon was an inspirational individual, and inspiration is at the heart of everything we do. Like Jon, our staff and volunteers are chosen for their ability to act as positive role models; in turn they inspire and enthuse our vulnerable young students to reach their full potential. Our long-term support programmes increase self-confidence, self-esteem and aspiration, and ultimately empower young people to become role models within their own communities.
The Jon Egging Trust realises Jon’s dream of inspiring young people through his love of aviation, STEM, teamwork and leadership, helping them to overcome adversity, identify their strengths and work towards their dreams.
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