Children and Families Support Worker

Salary: £27,254 - £29,064
Grade: F  
Contract Type: Permanent (2 positions)
Hours: 37 per week (some early evening working)
Location: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire (This is a County wide role with a Knaresborough base)

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join North Yorkshire Council’s Early Help Service in the West locality area as a Children and Families Support Worker. This involves 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

Based at Manor Road Children and Family Hub in Knaresborough, you will be required to  work across the Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon and Craven districts. The role will also involve supporting 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

The successful candidate will join 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.  These sessions often involve transporting children, so having your own car would be essential.  It also includes 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. You will also work closely with the community and voluntary sectors to identify partnership ways of working to improve outcomes for Children and their families.

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. The hours and days to be discussed at the interview. Candidates must be highly focussed, committed, and adaptable individuals who have an aptitude to work in a fast-paced environment and have good organisational and communication skills.  

North Yorkshire’s Children and Families service has an excellent reputation and received Outstanding across all areas when inspected by Ofsted. This role offers the successful candidate 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.

Please note – Occasional weekend working

Contact Details:

For more information or to ask any questions please contact  Shaun Scales, Practice Coordinator at View email address on nycjobs.engageats.co.uk or View phone number on nycjobs.engageats.co.uk.

Key Documents:

Key Dates:

Closing date: 07th June 2026

Interviews: w/c 15th June 2026

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.