Support Worker – HOTH Intervention Team

Join a specialist service helping children and young people aged 11–18 feel safer from harm outside the home. As a Support Worker within the HOTH Intervention Team, you will deliver targeted, trauma-informed intervention in response to criminal and sexual exploitation, peer-on-peer harm, serious youth violence and online harm.

Working within a centralised, non-case-holding team, you will undertake planned, time-limited work with children already allocated to Family Help or Children in Care services. Through trusted relationships, safety planning, healthy relationships work and targeted one-to-one support, you will help young people understand risk and work towards safer outcomes.

The work is shaped around each child’s assessed needs and agreed outcomes, with interventions planned in consultation with the Senior Support Worker or Team Manager. Alongside direct support, you will contribute observations and feedback to wider assessment, planning and review activity, helping professionals understand changes in risk, barriers to engagement and progress.

Day-to-day guidance and reflective supervision will support you to respond confidently within established procedures and contextual safeguarding approaches. More complex or higher-risk situations will be escalated promptly, while accurate recording and thoughtful workload management will help ensure intervention remains safe, focused and effective.

• It will be your responsibility to deliver planned one-to-one interventions, including safety planning, trusted relationship-building and healthy relationships work.
• You will undertake time-limited bespoke intervention plans and Return Home Interviews in line with assessed needs and agreed outcomes.
• Utilising your engagement skills, you will support contextual assessments, mapping and planning relating to peers, locations and emerging themes.
• A key aspect of the role is contributing to group work and working alongside schools, police, voluntary agencies and other partners to reduce risk.
• You will bring an organised and reflective approach to meetings, accurate recording, progress feedback and the timely escalation of safeguarding concerns.

• It is essential that you hold, or are working towards, a relevant professional qualification such as NVQ Level 4 or equivalent related to services for children and young people.
• We are looking for someone who has relevant experience of working with vulnerable children, young people or families, including evidence-based intervention and relationship-building.
• You will be able to follow agreed plans, use sound judgement, undertake basic risk assessments and escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately.
• You will have a good understanding of relevant legislation, safeguarding procedures, adolescent risk, contextual safeguarding and trauma-informed practice.
• Knowledge of exploitation-focused work, group interventions or community-based responses would be particularly valuable.
• Strong communication, partnership working, report writing and IT skills are required, together with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate records.

• An enhanced DBS check is required due to the nature of the specialist safeguarding work with children and young people.
• Travel throughout the authority and surrounding area is expected, so a full driving licence with access to a vehicle, or an alternative suitable means of travel, is needed.
• Evening and weekend work will form part of the service requirement.

Interviews will be held on 30th 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 Support Worker – HOTH Intervention Team role profile attached to this advert.