# Contextual Safeguarding Youth Support Worker

**Company**: London Borough of Enfield
**Location**: London Borough of Enfield, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: GBP 28,670 - 30,961 per year
**Category**: Social Care

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## Description

We are seeking a part-time Contextual Safeguarding Youth Support Worker to join our team in the London Borough of Enfield.

The successful candidate will work with young people aged 11-19, and up to 25 with disabilities and learning difficulties, providing personal and social development opportunities to help them transition to adulthood and achieve the best outcomes.

As part of the contextual safeguarding approach, you will use a variety of youth work methods to positively engage young people, such as detached and outreach youth work, mentoring, advocacy, provision of information, advice and guidance, one-to-one work, group work, and project work.

You will be part of the contextual safeguarding youth work team, line-managed by the Youth Service and directed in its work by the Contextual Safeguarding Hub to target identified hotspots and young people at risk.

The salary for this part-time role is pro-rata, £28,670 - £30,961 per year for a full-time post (36 hours).

Key responsibilities include:

- Engaging identified young people through establishing relationships of trust

- Delivering specific and bespoke interventions tailored to young people's needs and abilities

- Sharing information and working collaboratively with key professional agencies

- Supporting and challenging young people's attitudes and actions towards issues such as unemployment, drugs, poverty, and racism

Benefits of working for Enfield Council include:

- Excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme

- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service

- Blend of remote and office-based working

- Interest-free season ticket loan

- Career development and learning experiences

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work

- 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care

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## Skills

### Required
- youth work
- mentoring
- advocacy
- information provision
- group work
- project work

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