Family Support Worker

If so we would love to hear from you and for you to come and work for our Children in Care 14 – 18 Team. We are based in Nuneaton and offer a service to all young people who are care experienced between the ages of 14 – 18 across Warwickshire and those who may be placed further away. If you join us you will see that we are a busy but highly rewarding team to work for, it is our passion to capture the voice of young people in all that we do and ensure that they are central to all care and pathway planning decisions relating to them and their future. Download our Why work for Us Brochure
We have an excellent Local Offer for care leavers and part of our service is about sharing this with all care experienced young people so that they are aware of the support available to them as they transition to independence at 18 and beyond. We want to continue the drive to ensure young people are at the heart of everything we do and to do that we are utilising a restorative and trauma informed based approach with our young people to help inform our responses to them and achieve excellent outcomes. At the heart of all this is a culture of understanding the true value and importance of relationships with young people. Not convinced? In our recent OFSTED inspection, published in February 2022, in which we achieved GOOD, they found:

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If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Find out more about Us and Our Offer to you

We understand that social work can be a highly challenging role, because of that we offer a rigorous and highly supportive 1:1 each month with a manager and we are clear that decisions are not taken by you alone and you will be supported and overseen by an experienced and knowledgeable Team Leader. We recognise that coming out of the pandemic the work place is changing and to support this we offer a hybrid working environment, we have the right technology to be able to offer you the opportunity to work from home for some of the week and also an office environment where we utilise an agile approach to your working day where you have control over your calendar and appointments. Read more in our Agile Working leaflet

Our Social Workers are allocated to the young people and within their role they visit young people, support them in education, employment, and work in partnership with them to progress their care and pathway plans, and support them into independence.

Our Family Support Workers ensure that all the young people have their health checks, key documents such as passports, and birth certificates, and they help them to access bank accounts and driving lessons. Our Family Support Workers are assigned to a small number of young people where they undertake work with them. This can include work around domestic abuse, substance misuse, healthy relationships, confidence building and gaining independent living skills. Our Family Support Workers also work with family members and support young people returning home, when safe to do so.

If you are looking for a new role and challenge and have experience and passion for working with care experienced young people then this is the team for you and we will look forward to hearing from you.

If you are looking for a new role and challenge and have experience and passion for working with care experienced young people we look forward to hearing from you.

Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.

We also offer agile working, as well as hybrid working Children and families service - rewards and benefits – Warwickshire County Council.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

Family Support Worker - Grade H

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

For more information, or to discuss the role available please contact Rebecca Taylor, rebeccataylor@warwickshire.gov.uk

To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button.

Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so.

If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.

You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.