Senior Compass Partnership Worker

As a Senior Compass Partnership Worker, you will play a key role in ensuring children, young people and families receive the right support at the right time through Compass, South Gloucestershire’s multi-agency Early Help service. Providing quality assurance, professional oversight and expert guidance, you will help ensure Early Help requests are robust, family-focused and supported by clear evidence, leading to appropriate and consistent threshold decisions.

Working closely with colleagues and partner agencies, you will build confidence and strengthen practice across the Early Help partnership. Through reflective discussions, risk assessment and oversight of daily activity, you will support professionals to identify needs early, improve outcomes for families and ensure effective pathways between preventative and statutory services.

• A key aspect of your role will be quality assuring Early Help assessments and requests for support, providing constructive feedback and advice to colleagues and partner agencies to promote high-quality practice
• It will be your responsibility to undertake risk assessments, pre-triage requests and provide timely management oversight, ensuring support is identified at the most appropriate level.
• Using your professional judgement and experience, you will allocate work, lead reflective case discussions and support the resolution of threshold disagreements or escalated concerns.
• Working collaboratively across Access, Response and Preventative Services, you will attend threshold meetings to support consistent and effective decision-making.
• You will use performance and service data to identify trends, monitor activity and maintain oversight of Compass timelines, quality and outcomes.

• It is essential that you hold a recognised qualification at NVQ Level 4, or equivalent, relevant to working with children, young people and families.
• We are looking for someone with substantial experience of working in children’s services and Early Help multi-agency settings, including managing complex situations.
• Confident in providing constructive challenge, you will have the ability to facilitate reflective discussions and communicate clearly and professionally with families, colleagues and agencies.
• You will have the ability to assess levels of need, prioritise and allocate work and provide guidance and support to colleagues.
• A good understanding of current legislation, safeguarding thresholds and Early Help practice is essential, alongside the ability to apply this knowledge confidently in practice.
• You must have IT skills and be knowledgeable of systems, with ability to interpret information.

• Hybrid working is available in line with service arrangements, with day-to-day activity centred on Compass and the wider Early Help partnership.
• An enhanced DBS check is required due to the nature of the work with children and families.
• The role involves regular communication with families and multi-agency partners across South Gloucestershire.

Interviews will be held on 21st October 2026.

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
• What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos. We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the children and young people they work with.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please refer to the Senior Compass Partnership Worker role profile attached to this advert.