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Relief Children and Families Support Workers – Countywide
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North Yorkshire’s Children and Families service has an excellent reputation and received Outstanding across all areas when inspected by Ofsted
We have excellent opportunities to join North Yorkshire Council’s ‘Early Help’ service area as a Relief Children and Families Support Worker, working in partnership to deliver a wide range of interventions and support to parents, carers, children, young people and their families to improve outcomes.
About The Service
You will be required to carry out work supporting one main children’s centre or hub, as well as support colleagues across other areas and travel further afield where necessary to support children and families. Having your own car would be essential. North Yorkshire Council supports Hybrid way of working.
About The Role
We are looking for highly focussed, committed, and adaptable individuals who have an aptitude to work in a fast-paced environment and have good organisational and communication skills.
You will support an established team, supervising court directed contacts for children and families open to Children’s Social Care and delivering group sessions to children and parents.
Key tasks
- Transporting children, so having your own car would be essential.
- Direct work with children, young people and their families to share understanding and strategies for areas such as early speech and language, wellbeing, parenting and healthy relationships.
- Working closely with the community and voluntary sectors to identify partnership ways of working to improve outcomes for Children and their families.
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You will have experience of working directly with vulnerable children or young people and their families, due to the nature of the service delivery the role will include working early evenings with occasional weekends which will be discussed at interview.
This is a unique opportunity to join one of the best Children and Families services in the country, as well as the opportunity to develop your professional skills and your career in an exciting, challenging but supportive environment.
It is an exciting time in Children and Young Peoples Services in North Yorkshire as we plan our approach in respect of the Families First Partnership Programme and how we will be responding to the social care reforms. Work is underway to plan our approach and implementations for 2027. As a result of this, some realignment may happen with job roles in the future, we want to be transparent about this in respect of this role.
For more information about the positions or to ask any questions please contact lindseyhodgson.3@northyorks.gov.uk
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Key Dates
- Closing date: 22nd September 2026
- Interviews: beginning 28th September 2026
Key Documents
- Job Description
- Total Rewards Brochure
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Company: North Yorkshire Council
Salary: £27,254 - £29,064
Location: North Yorkshire, County Wide, North Yorkshire
Sector: Health and Social Care
Sector: Family Services
Job Role: Support Worker
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