Childrens Worker

Closing date: September 12th, 2025

Childrens Worker

Location:        Liverpool Area

Salary:             £27,924.41 per annum

Hours:             Monday – Friday 9am-5pm

Job Type:        Permanent/Fixed Term – two vacancies

Shortlisting:   12th September

Interview:        29th September

 

Why this role would be great for you

We are seeking a compassionate and motivated Children’s Worker to support children and young people living in our Safe Accommodation service, families fleeing domestic abuse. This role is central to ensuring children’s safety, emotional wellbeing, and development during a period of significant change and trauma.

You will provide trauma-informed, child-centred support — creating a safe and nurturing environment where children feel heard, valued, and supported. You will plan and deliver individual and group activities, offer emotional support, and advocate for the needs of children within the wider service.

All Children’s workers will undergo Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Skills Training and training in Trauma-Informed Care. These approaches will equip you to understand and work effectively with children affected by Domestic abuse.

Our service is built on values of hope, empowerment, choice, and independence, and we strive to provide children with opportunities to thrive, play, and heal.

 

What your week may look like

Children’s workers will be skilled in delivering a range of interventions for children to build strength, enhance resilience and encourage progress. The post holder will be responsible for providing key work support to a small caseload of children and will have the primary role of providing and co-coordinating support interventions and multi-agency activity.

  • Working as part of the daytime Support Team
  • Ensuring each child will receive personalised support considering their identified risks and personal needs
  • Engaging with schools and other education providers to provide a safe space to complete support sessions.
  • Providing a safe, welcoming environment with excellent standards and an ethos of service delivery that encourages all service users to engage with support on offer
  • To respond to emergency referrals and/or situations.

 

What can we offer you

Working with YMCA Together comes will a whole host of benefits. We hope that people will find deep personal fulfilment and purpose by working with alongside people in our services. Our teams are compassionate and supportive, fostering a strong sense of community. With opportunities for professional growth, YMCA together offers training to support your role and personal development.

For a full list of benefits see here: Careers Page | YMCA Together

 

The skills we are looking for

EXPERIENCE

  • Experience of working with children and families who have experienced domestic abuse/sexual violence
  • Experience of working 1-2-1 with children
  • Experience of Children’s Safeguarding
  • Experience of supporting people in a work environment
  • Experience of partnership working
  • Experience of formulating risk assessments
  • Working experience of maintaining up to date electronic records and calendars

KNOWLEDGE

  • A working knowledge of providing support
  • A working knowledge of Health & Safety issues
  • A clear understanding of complex needs support issues such as mental health, homelessness, substance misuse and offending
  • Knowledge of safeguarding protocols
  • Understanding of how to deal with challenging and chaotic individuals

COMMUNICATION

  • Excellent communication, engagement and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent administration skills

EMPATHY and RESPECT

  • YMCA ethos, philosophy and SHREK values, Strength, Humility, Respect, Empathy and Kindness
  • Energetic, dynamic and self motivated

COMMITMENT

  • Committed to improving the lives of people with complex needs
  • Committed to own personal development and CPD planning

ORGANISATION

  • Creative and dynamic approach with the ability to “think outside of the box” when providing solutions
  • Energetic, highly motivated with a reputation of being held in high regard by peers
  • Excellent interpersonal/ communication skills
  • Excellent negotiation/ mediation skills
  • Committed to own career development

COMPUTER LITERACY

  • Computer literate, competent in working with Microsoft word, outlook, windows

 

What is a nice to have

  • Experience of working within a psychologically informed environment (PIE)
  • Experience of Trauma Informed Care and of working in a therapeutic environment
  • Knowledge and understanding of Social Care involvement and the steps taken by Social workers to keep children safe, i.e. Child in need/Child protection and EHATS

 

Even if you don’t feel that you have all the relevant skills and “nice to haves” we would still like to hear from you and invite you to fill out our application form.

YMCA Together is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

 

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