social worker St Helens, Merseyside, England
St. Helens Council
Full Time
St Helens, Merseyside, England
24107 - 12.04 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description
Job Description
We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Youth Justice Officer in St Helens Youth Justice Service
St Helens Youth Justice Service is a small team of multi-agency professionals. We share a passion for helping and supporting children and their families and victims of youth crime, to improve their lives and make communities safer. To do this, we work hard to prevent and reduce youth crime by pro-active engagement, providing creative and effective interventions and programmes which are restorative, trauma informed and which take a whole family approach.
To support with the transportation of children to attend appointments and planned activities as directed.
To actively take part in supervision and ongoing training and development arranged by the YJS.
To adhere to the relevant recording policies this includes the completion of session updates to the required standard; submitted within the agreed timescales.
To maintain appropriate standards of confidentiality in accordance with the guidance of the Youth Justice Board and procedures of the YJS.
To work in a way that is flexible and responsive to the needs of the children and service.
To adhere to local policy and procedure including safeguarding and public protection.
To work unsociable hours including days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
The role
Child First principles are at the heart of the work we do with children, young people and their families so the candidates should have relevant experience of working with and engaging young people and their families and have a clear understanding of some of the complex issues affecting young people today. Risk management, public safety and safeguarding are fundamental to our work and candidates need to be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of these requirements as they are integral to the posts being offered.
If you are passionate about working with children and young people and have a creative approach to direct work we would love to hear from you.
All posts are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
To be successful in this new post, you will…..
We welcome applications from the BAME community.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing us at [email protected]
This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Youth Justice Officer in St Helens Youth Justice Service
St Helens Youth Justice Service is a small team of multi-agency professionals. We share a passion for helping and supporting children and their families and victims of youth crime, to improve their lives and make communities safer. To do this, we work hard to prevent and reduce youth crime by pro-active engagement, providing creative and effective interventions and programmes which are restorative, trauma informed and which take a whole family approach.
To support with the transportation of children to attend appointments and planned activities as directed.
To actively take part in supervision and ongoing training and development arranged by the YJS.
To adhere to the relevant recording policies this includes the completion of session updates to the required standard; submitted within the agreed timescales.
To maintain appropriate standards of confidentiality in accordance with the guidance of the Youth Justice Board and procedures of the YJS.
To work in a way that is flexible and responsive to the needs of the children and service.
To adhere to local policy and procedure including safeguarding and public protection.
To work unsociable hours including days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
The role
Child First principles are at the heart of the work we do with children, young people and their families so the candidates should have relevant experience of working with and engaging young people and their families and have a clear understanding of some of the complex issues affecting young people today. Risk management, public safety and safeguarding are fundamental to our work and candidates need to be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of these requirements as they are integral to the posts being offered.
If you are passionate about working with children and young people and have a creative approach to direct work we would love to hear from you.
All posts are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
To be successful in this new post, you will…..
- Experience of working with children who are considered to be at risk, this will include children who are at risk of crime/ASB, exploitation, NEET, LAC, SEND etc
- a robust induction programme
- access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
- an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and passionate team of youth justice professionals
We welcome applications from the BAME community.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing us at [email protected]
This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
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St. Helens Council
www.sthelens.gov.uk
Saint Helens, United Kingdom
Michael Palin
$1 to $5 million (USD)
1 to 50 Employees
Company - Private
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