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Gypsy Roma Traveller Outreach Worker
Salary: C1 £29,542 - £32,046
Hours: 37 per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Technorth
About the Role
We are currently recruiting for the following to join our dedicated Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) Team:
- Czech/Slovak speaking Family Outreach Worker
- Romanian speaking Family Outreach worker
This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of families within the GRT communities. We are looking for individuals who are:
- Culturally competent and sensitive to the needs of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities
- Fluent in Czech/Slovak, Romanian to effectively engage with families
- Passionate about outreach, advocacy, and building trust within diverse communities
- Committed to promoting inclusion, access to services, and positive outcomes for families
As a Gypsy Roma Traveller Outreach Worker, you will thrive on supporting a community who are statistically more likely than others to experience barriers accessing support services. In your family-led practice, you will take a strengths-based approach, supporting all children and families to stay safe, healthy, and reach their full potential. This means that should difficulties arise, you will involve families in decision-making to problem-solve and be solution-focused in your thinking.
This role involves supporting daily drop-in sessions within School and Community settings where you will provide initial advice and guidance to ensure members of the community and services work restoratively together. You will also hold a caseload providing direct family support. This will include a range of parenting support activities, helping families to recognise and understand professional concerns and helping to remove the barriers to working with other key professionals.
Key Responsibilities
As a Family Outreach Worker, you will bring to the role:
- Fluency in written and spoken Czech/Slovak and/or Romanian
- A good understanding of the challenges faced by the Roma community
- A good understanding of cultural sensitivity
- Ability to work restoratively applying our High Support High Challenge approach
- Flexible approach to provide parenting support in challenging circumstances
This is a challenging but highly rewarding role, based in a small but effective team. Days are varied, and the team demonstrates a range of skills and approaches to meet the demands of supporting a community facing ongoing issues around poverty, school attendance, health concerns, and navigating the UK systems. The role is effective because we are responsive to our aims in Leeds to provide safe homes for children and reduce families facing poverty.
You can expect to receive regular peer and management support; you will have access to continued professional development and will be joining an established, well-respected and nationally recognised team.
What We Offer You
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:
- A competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- Membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
- A clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- A range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
If you would like an informal chat, please contact: helen.binns@leeds.gov.uk
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.
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We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans, as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled, and care-experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship, you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job Purpose
To supervise and lead the development of family outreach city-wide within the Gypsy Roma Traveller communities.
To lead on the development of positive, respectful, and responsive relationships with parents, carers, and partners to enable children to have the best start in life. To work in an outreach capacity, engaging with the Gypsy Roma Traveller community providing advocacy, information, one-to-one sessions, group work, and support to identify need within the Gypsy Roma Traveller community. To signpost and contribute towards the delivery of services.
Initiate and lead on multi-agency work around the Gypsy Roma Traveller communities.
Special Conditions: This post is subject to a higher-level check with the Disclosure & Barring Service. Please note that a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining employment; this will depend on the circumstances and background to any offence.
Responsibilities
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade
- To participate in appraisal, training, and development activities as necessary to ensure up-to-date knowledge and skills
- To improve own practice through observation, evaluation, discussion with colleagues, and development programmes.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues, knowing when to seek help and advice.
- Contribute to the overall ethos, work, and aims of the service by attending relevant meetings, training days/events as requested.
- Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures e.g. child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding and promoting the values, standards, and equal opportunities of Leeds City Council.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, or victimisation and any form of abuse of equal opportunities, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol, and this role will be expected to work within these parameters.
- The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post.
- To lead and supervise staff in the delivery of family outreach services to Gypsy Roma Traveller families, working in partnership with agencies to deliver the core offer to children and families.
- To engage with parents/carers of children of the Gypsy Roma Traveller community’s city-wide in a respectful and responsive way.
- To encourage their engagement in Childcare/Early Education/group activities.
- To work as part of a multi-agency team to promote cohesive services for families.
- To disseminate and promote advocacy, information, and advice to parents/carers within the Gypsy Roma Traveller communities within the Leeds Boundaries.
- To work in venues within the city and roadside camps to promote the opportunities for Gypsy Roma Traveller children and families.
- To lead on the consultation and evaluation of service delivery and ensure that support is given to families within agreed timescales.
- To work alongside families with a range of focused services that will support parents with Children. To encourage participation and discussion
- To deliver services within the home, trailer, or roadside and roadside camps that meet the needs of the individual child/children and families.
- To deliver workshops and speak at conferences to add value to the work with Gypsy Roma Traveller children and families.
- To disseminate good practice in community-based childcare and support students or visitors from a range of agencies.
- To promote the development of children and parents learning through play, communication, language, and literacy
- To lead on Safeguarding and promotion of the wellbeing of children whilst providing professional support to parents and workers from other agencies. In line with LAC and Safeguarding Children’s partnership Procedures
- To advocate on behalf of parents/carers to support their access to health and benefit advice
- To manage the delivery of Early Help and ensure that this is embedded in their everyday practice.
- To be a reflective observant practitioner who seeks to improve and extend their and others knowledge taking an active interest in new developments in family support, by attending staff meetings, parents meetings, and training opportunities
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Qualifications
Relevant Qualifications or experience include
- NVQ Level 3 in Childcare, Health, Education, Social Care, or Adult Learning Support
- CACHE Diploma in Childcare and Education
- BTEC National Diploma in Childhood Studies
- Certificate in Education
- DIP HE in Youth and Community Work
- Social work qualification
- Health qualification
- Foundation Degree in family Support
Personal Specification
Essential Requirements
It is essential that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post within the context of the specific role duties and responsibilities: Candidates will only be shortlisted for interview if they can demonstrate on the application form that they meet all the essential requirements
Method of Assessment will be through one or more of the following: Application Form, Test, Interview, and Certificate
Skills Required
- Able to work flexibly across different work locations and areas as appropriate.
- Able to communicate effectively with children, parents/carers, and partners working in partnership at all times.
- Able to listen to Gypsy Roma Traveller children’s and parents' views, value their experience, and empathise to build on their strengths.
- To disseminate information and offer advice and advocacy
- Able to understand and respond to the range
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