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Leamington Spa
02/04/2024
Senior Family Support Worker
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Job details
Salary
£31,364.00 - £33,945.00 per annum
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Region
Leamington Spa
Package
Permanent, Fulltime Position
Job category/type
Community, Education - Non-School Based, Social Care
Date posted
20/03/2024
Job reference
RA0005882
Job description
About Us
Early Help and Targeted Support services in Warwickshire have seen some exciting changes, helping to ensure children, young people and families access the right support at the right time. This was recognised by Ofsted in our 2021 inspection where we were grade Good in all areas:
- Children and families in Warwickshire benefit from consistently good quality services.
- Children and families in Warwickshire benefit from a clearly defined and accessible Early Help offer, ensuring that they receive support services when needed.
- Children and Families have access to a wide range of helpful services at an early stage, which make a real difference to their lives.
We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent, full time Senior Family Support Worker to join our Warwick District team. The post holder will be able to apply multi-disciplinary skills in their work with families, having a caseload of their own, specific to team area, depending on the identified level of need and demand on the service. They will be required to contribute to the learning of others, provide training, develop and lead an area of expertise such as mental health and provide supervision to colleagues.
Senior Family Support Workers may also be required to deputise for Team Managers to ensure smooth operations of the Family Support Work service.
Find out why we are good Ofsted
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
About the Role and Key Requirements
Essential experience to be successful in the role includes:
- A minimum of NVQ Level Four or equivalent children and family’s qualification.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience of demonstrably effective continuous Family Support Work coupled with delivery of specialist interventions, partnership work and supervisory duties.
- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge within their areas of specialism, including relevant policies and legislation and ensure that it is shared and promoted appropriately.
- To deputise for a Team Manager and/ or supervise Family Support Workers, as required.
- To build working relationships with other professionals and agencies, supporting an effective multi-agency liaison and work effectively as part of a multi-agency team.
- To take a lead role in promoting a continuous professional development to Family Support Workers, cascading relevant training and knowledge, sharing best practice, and offering specialist advice and support.
- Contributing to the learning of others through a robust delivery of guidance, support, and training, including in specific specialist areas, e.g., mental health, domestic abuse, to Family Support Workers and other colleagues, as required.
- Developing and maintaining strong partnerships with other services and agencies to deliver a holistic service to families with complex needs.
- Delivery of specialist interventions and programmes.
- Supervise a small number of Family Support Workers and contribute to smooth management of the team and service. This might include responsibility for rota’s, co-ordinating services and acting as the senior worker to lead and support others in difficult situations.
- Deputising for Team Managers, as required.
- Meet the needs of families, children, and young people, using a restorative approach, developing strong relationships to support families to help themselves, empowering families to make their own decisions and actively engage in their plan of support or intervention.
- Delivery of direct work with parents and children through their plans of support.
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Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
For further details please see the job description and person specification
Additional Information
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 an informal discussion please contact Joy Wood, Early Help Team Leader – Warwick District by email: joywood@warwickshire.gov.uk
Closing Date: Monday 02 April 2024
Interview Dates: Tuesday 9th April and Thursday 11th April 2024
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 demonstrates that they meet the criteria for the post. This means 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.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. .
Senior Family Support Worker
