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Children & Young People’s Worker in Holding Families


Job Highlights

Application Deadline: Thursday, 18th September 2025 @ 12 Noon
Location: Salford
Contract Type: Full Time, 37 hours per week.
Remuneration: Early Break Salary Points 3 - 4: £25,787 to £26,648 per annum.
Interview Date: Thursday, 25th September 2025

Key Focus

  • To deliver 1:1, face to face work with young clients and their parents/carers as appropriate and manage the appointments to best meet clients’ needs in accordance with Early Break policies and procedures. This may include evening and/or weekend sessions

  • Build relationships and offer interventions with children who are affected by parental substance use or parental criminality

  • Offer trauma informed interventions

  • To deliver group work programmes and support in drop in sessions

  • To provide regular updates for and attend monthly Operational Meetings

  • To write or contribute to reports for Child in Need, Case Conferences, Core Group or Court and attend meetings as appropriate

  • Support the Holding Families coordinator in case load management

  • Liaise and develop partnerships, with a range of agencies in seeking out the provision which best meets the needs of the young people identified through referrals

  • Adhere to Early Break policies on Safeguarding young people, linking to local and national policies and guidelines

  • Record and report all required client information, using the Holding Families database system in line with Service deadlines and the legal framework of Data Protection

  • Maintain and update levels of knowledge and understanding of issues relevant to parental drug and alcohol use through training offered by Early Break and other agencies, as opportunities arise

  • Undertake other professional development opportunities, as appropriate to the role/Service

  • To contribute to the Early Break workforce development in relation to the key issues re: parental substance misuse and Hidden Harm

  • To be an active member of named Service meetings, identifying areas of work and working under your own initiative to resolve gaps, problems, issues

  • Undertake any other duties as directed by, and negotiated with, the Senior Manager/Line Manager

  • To contribute to the maintenance of an ethos in which all workers, clients and all in contact with Early Break and its partner agencies are valued and shown respect

  • To actively promote the charitable aspects of the Service to the workforce

Key Deliverables

  • You will uphold our excellent service reputation through “living” our agreed service values

  • Contribute to a culture of peer-to-peer challenge and support as well as the development of both individual and service “professional curiosity”

  • Ensure that Early Break is represented in a professional manner at all times

  • Represent the service at relevant meetings, as required and appropriate

  • Be a creative force in Early Break by assisting in the development of new ideas and initiatives, where appropriate

  • Engage in the Early Break Personal Development Plan framework that sets out training, line management and support network opportunities and the individual worker expectations contextual to the wider service business

  • Ensure that all service Policies and Procedures are adhered to and contribute to reviews of Policies and Protocols where required

  • Actively contribute to maintaining excellent standards as set out in the Early Break Clinical Governance Framework

  • You will be a service “marketeer” delivering on our social media aspirations offering information about Early Break as opportunities arise, referencing the service offer with confidence.

  • You will have an ability to offer training/presentation specific to your role

  • Engage in the opportunities of ongoing reflective practice within service including Supervision, Buddy offer and Early Break Foundations course

  • Undertake Health and Safety responsibilities, as is the case for every Service worker and as designated by the Chief Executive and Line Managers.

  • Undertake any additional duties as directed by and negotiated with, the Senior Management Team

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