Emotional Health & Wellbeing Worker, Cared4Children

“Early Break is a young people and family charity that believes excellence at all points of delivery is a requirement. If you take pride in your work, are hardworking, want to be professionally challenged and are passionate to make a difference in the lives of others then our organisation could well suit you. We have a strong set of values determined by staff which we continuously work towards. It is our shared expectation our staff will be “professionally curious” both in their delivery and ongoing professional development.”

Vicky Maloney, CEO

Emotional Health & Wellbeing Worker, Cared4Children - Oldham

Part-time: 22.12 hours per week

Early Break Salary Points 4-6, £27,713.92 to £29,435.12 FTE. Pro-rata.

Key Focus

The role will offer advice and signposting interventions for children and their families, as well as offering support with emotional health and wellbeing needs by offering regular group work for primary and secondary aged young people.

Delivery of effective 1:1 emotional health and wellbeing support with children and young people, who are looked after, with emotional health and wellbeing needs across the community and education settings.

Using a combination of 1:1 support and group work, the post holder will offer de-escalation support, integrated emotional health and wellbeing interventions, solution-focussed and resilience building work with children, young people and their carers/families across Oldham.

You will be a worker who is accountable and responsible within their own practice. You will make use of the strong support network this role offers.

You will have a good understanding of the barriers and issues affecting children and young people and work closely with organisations and services that support or work with children and young people, their family, carers and schools. Together with CYP, organisations working with them, schools, parents, family and carers co-design workshops, interventions and come up with solutions to support the wellbeing of CYP. Working with them to develop workshops and sessions that address their needs to support the development of culturally sensitive offers further and improve accessibility of existing offers.

Key Deliverables

• Alongside the project co-ordinator, you will offer a range of individualised support to young people with presenting emotional health and wellbeing needs and offer them appropriate interventions and/or support them into the wider CYPMH provision, Early Break core services or other service provisions.
• Work alongside the co-ordinator to manage referrals and demand for children and their carers via a SPOC (single point of access arrangement) and ensure a responsive consultation offer for foster families
• Deliver and develop our offer by providing group work, drop-in sessions and digital offers within Early Break premises and community venues across Oldham alongside the project worker, including Stressed Out Brain delivery
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary substance-use and emotional health and wellbeing team alongside to support emotional wellbeing of children and young people.
• Support and encourage young people to take on board safety messages as regards risk taking behaviour and own vulnerability including self-injury, substance use, offending behaviour, CSE, CCE and other.
• Prepare, plan and deliver education sessions and group work to young people in education settings or the community as per presenting need.
• Adhere to Early Break policies on Safeguarding including identification and referral, as well as participating in any subsequent action in relation to these.
• Work with a range of partners in ensuring seamless access to support for children and young people.
• Maintain and update levels of knowledge and understanding of issues relevant to young people’s lives through reading, eLearning and training offered by Early Break and other agencies, as opportunities arise.
• Ensure all necessary administration/sessional recordings are complete, including maintenance of Nebula database.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the work of the role and the Service.
• Implement Service Health and Safety Policy/Service Guidelines including risk assessments.
• Attend relevant internal and external meetings supportive to the role.
• Engage in professional development opportunities and training as required/appropriate.
• Have an understanding of and the ability to maintain confidentiality.

Closing Date: Tuesday, 3rd March 2026 @ 12 noon

Interview Date: Tuesday, 10th March 2026