Outreach Youth and Family Support Worker, Team Vroeg

Are you an experienced youth and family support professional with a passion for young children? CJG Vroeg focuses on early identification and promoting positive development. Would you like to support families with questions about their young child’s development and/or behaviour? If so, this role within the CJG Apeldoorn’s CJG Vroeg Outpatient Team would be the perfect fit for you.

Here’s what you’ll be doing
As a community-based youth and family worker, you carry out assessments within families, maintaining close contact with parents/carers, the child and pre-school settings. You analyse the situation comprehensively, identify issues, provide encouragement, offer appropriate advice and, where necessary, provide support yourself. You work in an integrated and system-oriented manner, taking all areas of life into account. You empower families to find solutions themselves and prioritise the interests of the family and the child. Your main tasks are:

• Observing and analysing family situations;
• Encouraging the development of young children;
• Working in partnership with youth health services, the social support network and pre-school facilities;
• Encouraging people to talk about their concerns;
• Working in accordance with the IMH approach and systemic theory.

Working for CJG Apeldoorn
Would you like to come and work for us? That means working in an organisation dedicated to ensuring children grow up and are brought up in a healthy way. We are an open organisation, where we work together to build a strong prevention programme and where everyone’s talents count.

Here’s what we offer you
We believe it’s important that you feel at home here and have the opportunity to develop. That’s why we offer you:

• A position involving 24–28 hours per week;
• Salary in accordance with scale 9 of the Youth Care Collective Agreement (depending on qualifications and experience);
• End-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• Opportunities for personal and professional development;
• €20 gross contribution towards health insurance;
• An attractive pension scheme through PFZW, a travel allowance and a generous leave entitlement.

What to bring
For this role, we are looking for a committed professional with knowledge and experience in community-based work and youth support services. You understand the issues facing families and are not afraid to take action when necessary. You recognise yourself in the following:

• A completed higher professional education (HBO) degree in MWD, SPH or Pedagogy;
• SKJ registration is compulsory;
• At least 2 years’ experience in outpatient care is an advantage;
• Knowledge of mild intellectual disability, behavioural and developmental problems, and child and adolescent psychiatry;
• A Category B driving licence and your own transport.

For this appointment, we ask you to provide a valid Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG). You should also have strong communication skills and be able to give and receive feedback, as well as being able to cope with stress and handle crisis situations and conflicting interests.

Would you like to apply or find out more?
Interested? Then please apply via the ‘Apply’ button. There is no closing date for this vacancy; all applications will be considered as soon as possible. Do you have any questions about this role? Please feel free to contact Aniek Notten, Assistant Team Leader at CJG Apeldoorn, via a.notten@cjgapeldoorn.nl

We do not welcome approaches from recruitment agencies in response to this advert.