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Family Support Worker x2 Strengthening Family Connections Team
3 months ago
We have an exciting new opportunity for a dedicated and experienced Family Support Worker to join our Strengthening Family Connection Team in North Somerset.
About the role
The Strengthening Family Connections Team is dedicated to working with families to foster strong relationships and support meaningful change. We use individualised, evidence-based interventions to address the individual needs of each family, promoting a collaborative and empowering approach to family support.
As a Family Support Worker, you will work directly with families either at the edge of care, at the edge of service, or in the work around reunification.
The work will be covering the hours of 7am -8pm on a shift basis and will have flexible hybrid working opportunities.
The role of the Family Support Worker is as follows:
- To work with families and children 0-18 years and 25 SEND to complete assessments, plans and deliver short term direct work focused on the need of the family.
- To establish and maintain excellent working relationships with partner agencies within the statutory and non-statutory services to ensure a cohesive approach to preventing family breakdowns.
- To complete all required information on to our LCS recording systems
- To attend monthly supervisions and weekly team check in's as well as monthly team meetings.
The vision and commitment of Children's Service in North Somerset ensures that a high quality and child centred approach, and clear model of practise based on building effective relationships - ensuring the right help at the right time.
We are a small and friendly organisation, committed to supporting the families we work with and each other.
Every Child should grow up in a safe and loving home, where they can feel supported to navigate through challenges that life presents. We are committed to help children, young people and their families who are at risk of entering care or at risk of and provide mediation, reconnections, or support in transition.
This position is exempt under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975 and is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Valid driving licence and own transport, or be able to provide alternative, suitable method of travel is an essential condition for this role.
About you
To be successful you will:
- Be qualified at Level three or above in the relevant field.
- Have experience with working with children, young people and families.
- Have strong organisational and planning skills.
- Be confident in the delivery of 1-1 and group intervention.
- Have excellent time management skills.
- Have a flexible work approach.
- Have good interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships.
- Work well within a team and one you own initiative.
- Be curious in your approach.
- And work in a way which is anti-discriminatory practise.
About us
Our vision
Our council vision is 'an open, fairer, greener North Somerset' and we have three key priorities:
- A thriving and sustainable place
- A council which empowers and cares about people
- An open and enabling organisation.
Our values
Our organisational values are important. They help guide us in how we work and provide services for our residents. Our people produced our values in collaboration with elected members. They provide a strong ethos and help us to deliver our ambitious agenda, working in partnership across the council and beyond:
- We act with integrity.
- We respect each other.
- We innovate.
- We care.
- We collaborate.
We work to the 6 fundamentals:
1.Relationship matters
2.Seeing hearing the child or young person's voice relating to their lived experience
3.Understanding the child's or young persons lived experience
4.Responding to child's voice or young people's voice to improve their lived experience
5.Outcome focused practise
6.Language that cares
Our Benefits
We offer:
- A competitive salary,
- Family leave options,
- A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection,
- Opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential,
- Generous leave entitlement (25 days, rising to 30 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days,
- Discounts on shopping, days out, travel and gym memberships,
- Agile and flexible working arrangements to help you enjoy a healthy work-life balance,
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Further details of our excellent rewards package can be found in our Benefits booklet.
Want to know more and apply?
For an informal discussion, please contact Laura Mitchell-Miles, Family Wellbeing Locality Team Manager, on .
Anticipated interview date: Thursday 18th July and Friday 19th July 2024.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the vacancy/ies.
At North Somerset Council we want all our employees to feel valued and appreciated. We aim to ensure equality of opportunity and prevent discrimination irrespective of your sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief, race, age, disability, including neurodiversity, if you are married or in a civil partnership or are pregnant. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Somerset Council – Open, Fairer, Greener.
Please note: We are currently only accepting applications from candidates who have full permission to work in the UK.
