Edge Of Care Family Intervention Worker

The Edge of Care team work intensively with families where there is an imminent risk of the child or young person entering care. The service also supports children currently in care and their families, where there is an identified plan for the child to return home.

The specialist team will be dedicated to supporting families to stay together when it is safe and appropriate to do so.

The team is made up of multi-agency practitioners who will practice using a restorative, relational approach, ensuring that families are fully supported to make the changes needed to care for their children and to prevent their entry into the care system.

Your next role

As a Family Intervention Worker, you will hold a small complex caseload of children, young people and families alongside their allocated Social Worker.

You will be required to; plan, co-ordinate and deliver targeted support for families, children and young people, to attend multi-agency meetings such as child protection conferences and multi-agency risk panel, to contribute through your case recording to the monitoring and reporting of team performance, to service audit activity, and to the development of the service as a whole.

You will have a high level of knowledge and understanding of child development alongside high levels of understanding of child protection and safeguarding. You will also demonstrate resilience, skills in risk management, the ability to manage your time well.

The Edge of Care team take a flexible approach to working hours which may include being on call, evenings, weekends. This post will involve Swindon wide travel, working alone and working with families in their own homes.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.

Your next steps

Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

For further information about the role please contact Andrew Whitehouse, Service Manager, Integrated Adolescence Service at awhitehouse@swindon.gov.uk or Judith Gingell, Interim Co-Ordinator - Edge of Care Team at jgingell@swindon.gov.uk

If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk