Sessional Worker

**Sessional Worker**

As a sessionlal worker you will have the opportunity to work within the Asylum and Leaving Care Team providing direct work. We are looking for someone who is passionate and enthusiastic to provide support for care experienced young people. We want to ensure that the young people we work with have a sense of feeling cared for, cared about, and are given the support and advice they need to be able to make positive choices and care for themselves as they mature. You will be working with young people from 16 to 25 years who may have just secured their first tenancy, are living in unsettled or temporary accommodation, or feeling isolated. You will offer support to develop life skills, providing practical support around budgeting and working towards identified goals.

**About WCC Children and Families Service**

At Warwickshire County Council (WCC) we work with children and families restoratively, building strong relationships and connections to help families find long-lasting solutions. Our work contributes to our wider County Council aim - to make Warwickshire the best it can be for everyone. It’s a big responsibility that can be challenging at times, but this is what drives our staff to succeed, develop and achieve. If you’re someone who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage and purpose, then we want you to work with us.

Throughout 2020 we continued to look to the future and build on our programme of change and investment in the service.... Covid hasn’t stopped us

It has helped us shape and develop a focus on wellbeing, utilising technology, opening opportunities for career development and renewed our focus on reflective and supportive leadership. These are the backbone to our offer to our workforce.

WCC invested in Microsoft technology in 2020 including the use of Surface Pros and MS365 suite which has enabled our workforce to seamlessly transition to community and homeworking. We have a whole council commitment to flexible working and employee wellbeing. We nurture, support and challenge each other to achieve the best outcomes for all our children.

WCC is an authority that engages with innovation. We are a financially secure local authority and want to achieve an outstanding service for children. To this end we have received £21m investment programme over four years to implement new and creative ways of working with children. This funding is from both the Council and Department for Education to strengthen relationship and evidenced based practice.

We have introduced the Leeds Family Values model which includes increasing Family Group Conferences, providing more support for Special Guardians and a Caring Dads Programme. We have also begun implementing multi-Disciplinary ways of working (which is focussed on embedding adult mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse services in our teams. We also have a new Children’s Workforce Academy to further support our staff and managers develop. All our practice is underpinned by restorative and trauma informed practice.

We want our practitioners to spend their time building relationships with families to achieve change. We provide safe and manageable caseloads and have provided substantial additional capacity to support teams with Covid pressures. We have excellent business support who minute multi agency meetings for social workers. We are also investing in technology such as automation to support practitioners to automatically upload documents to children’s electronic records.

We’re building something very special in Warwickshire. A community of practice - with diverse thought, skills and experiences. Working for every child to create a Child Friendly Warwickshire.

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For Further Details see Job Description and Specification

**Additional Information**:
**Closing Date: 13**th** July 2023**

**Interview Date: 31**st** July 2023