Family Practitioner

The Family Practitioner Service is an holistic service working with families, children & young people and their carers to enable them to reach their full potential. Often working in a fast-paced environment, you will need good organisational skills to meet competing demands, and effective relationship building abilities to enable a high challenge / high support approach. Working in co-production with the family and other Agencies, the child / young person will be at the centre of all of your work._

From completing a child centred assessment of need and strengths, through to the delivery on agreed actions as defined in a plan, you will need effective observational ability; be an empathetic listener; have highly attuned analytical skills and the confidence to effectively challenge whilst maintaining relationships.

You will be delivering interventions to families, children & young people in a variety of settings including the home, school and in the community, which address and support their often complex needs and vulnerabilities.

As part of a team, you will be required to complete duty tasks as scheduled, and support the delivery of our groupwork programmes.

Educated to a Level 3, with relevant experience of working with children, young people & their families / carers.

Hold a full driving license and have the use of a car.

Have an understanding of the vulnerabilities and challenges that families, children & young people face, and a working knowledge on interventions which can support positive changes and reduce the need for service involvement.

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Package Description
The Family Practitioner Service works with families and others using a restorative approach, offering high support and high challenge and interventions to help stabilise and support children, young people and their families to remain together and have positive outcomes.