Children and Young Support Worker

Employer:

Location:

Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 3LH

Pay:

£26,830.20 per year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

15/03/2026

We have an exciting opportunity for Children & Young People Domestic Abuse Practitioners (CYPDAP) to join the New Era team in Staffordshire, working 37.5 hours a week on a Permanent Contract.

Do you want to make a difference every day?

Do you want to contribute to change & improvement for those who need it?

Do you have resilience & adaptability?

Can you work effectively with a focus on customer service and care?

If yes, then we'd love to hear from you… What we offer

• Flexible Working Options:
  Including hybrid working.
• Generous Annual Leave: 28 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 33 days plus Bank Holidays, with options to buy or sell annual leave.
• Birthday Leave:
  An extra day off for your birthday.
• Enhanced
  
  Allowances:
  
  Enhanced sick pay, maternity, and paternity payments.
• Exclusive Discounts:
  High Street, retail, holiday, gym, entertainment, and leisure discounts.
• Financial Wellbeing:
  Access to our financial wellbeing hub and salary-deducted finance.
• Wellbeing Support:
  Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.
• Inclusive Networks:
  Access to EDI networks and colleague cafes.
• Sustainable Travel:
  Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.
• Career Development:
  Ongoing training and support with opportunities for career progression.

This role is based in Staffordshire (we have an office in Stafford or Stoke). The caseworker will work directly with children and young people across the area; with hybrid working an option after the 6‑month probationary period.

• Working directly and indirectly with children and young people.
• Delivering services mostly through education establishments.
• Working within a wider domestic abuse service for the whole family approach.

• Good communication skills.
• Ability to engage, build rapport and motivate young people.
• Good understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on young people.

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales.

We put them at the heart of our organisation and our support and campaigns are informed and shaped by them and their experiences.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

At Victim Support, we're proud to celebrate diversity and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong.

We're committed to being an antiracist organisation, and we actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from Black and Asian and other minoritised communities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria for a job where it is practicable to do so.

We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment and selection process.

To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.

If you have already registered &started an application, then we will contact you to advise of the amended closing date wherever possible.

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).