Salary: £38,220 - £42,839 per annum
Grade: JK
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
A welcome from the Corporate Director of Children and Young People
Thank you for your interest in joining our Children and Young People’s service.
As the new Director for Children and Young People, here in North Yorkshire I am excited to announce significant investment in our children and families service.
More capacity. More prevention. Better outcomes.
Be part of a service investing in family help and sustainable practice.
Across local government, children’s services are facing unprecedented demand and funding constraint. Many organisations are responding by reducing capacity and narrowing ambition. We have chosen a different path. In response to the Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we in NYC are seeking to expand out teams in order to drive the changes of supporting children and their families at the earliest opportunity, right time, right person.
We are making a significant and sustained investment in our workforce—creating new and additional capacity across children’s social care, which will become Family help and our Multi agency child protections teams. At a time when others are making savings, we are growing our teams because we believe that safe, effective and relationship based practice relies on practitioners having the time, support and professional space to do their best work, with children.
Hear more from El Mayhew Corporate Director Children and Young People service outline our investment plans, about our children services and new career opportunities visit:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
About The Role:
North Yorkshire Council have a national reputation for excellence, and we are extremely proud of the work our Children’s Services do; Ofsted has recognised their hard work, rating us as Outstanding across all areas. We are now pleased to be offering the opportunity to join our highly acclaimed service and help us continue to offer an excellent provision as we expand our teams and invest in exciting new roles.
Requirements
Our Family Assessment and Support Teams work with children, young people and the families who are Children in Need and Child Protection. We have high aspirations for our children and young people and always strive to work collaboratively with families and young people, working strongly with the belief that each child and young person has a network around them, which is essential to work alongside and tap into. We have an extensive training and learning offer to support our Social Workers in their work with children and families.
The role is very varied as we work with families on a short term basis whilst completing assessments and on a longer term basis working Child and Family Plans and Child Protection Plans and in some cases we complete pre proceedings work and issue care proceedings. We work with all young people from birth up to the age of 18 having strong links with other agencies externally and teams in North Yorkshire.
The team consists of a Team Manager and Practice Supervisors to support all our Social Workers in the team. The team have dedicated business support to enable Social Workers to spend more time with Children, Young People and their families. We have a well defined supervision policy which includes regular group supervisions, individual supervisions and opportunities to participate in County Wide practice model sessions, and engage in appreciative enquiry and conversation café’s about practice with our Principal Social Worker.
Before applying via this vacancy please review additional information about working for North Yorkshire Council, what staff say about working in North Yorkshire, our CPD offer and career opportunities visit in addition to the job description and interview dates https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
For further information regarding the roles contact Tara Bray at Tara.Bray@northyorks.gov.uk
Key Dates
Closing date: Sunday 17th May 2026
Interview dates are stated on the campaign site https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/cswl-jobs
Key Documents
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
We do NOT accept applications from agencies.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults or children at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk.
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.