Child & Family Worker

3 weeks ago

Crawley, United Kingdom WSCC Full time

**ABOUT US**
Here at West Sussex County Council, we are committed to improving our services for the children and families we support. In May 2023, Ofsted Inspectors praised West Sussex County Council’s Children’s Services for its ‘relentless approach to improving practice,’ giving the service an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, with ‘good’ judgements for children in care and leadership and management. The judgements on children needing help and protection and children leaving care are they ‘require improvement to be good’.

Inspectors recognised the ‘strong, determined and cohesive leadership team’ who have made significant improvements since 2019 and their commitment and focus to make further improvements.

**JOB DETAILS** Salary**: £25,409 to £27,852 (plus Crawley Weighting Allowance) - (pro rata £20,327.20 to £22,281.60 plus pro rata Crawley Weighting Allowance)
**Working Pattern**: Part Time - 29.6 hours (4 days a week), hybrid working
**Contract Length**: Fixed-term contract or secondment until 03/05/2025
**Location**: Crawley

Family Safeguarding is a strengths-based model and a new way of working with families so that they can stay together, and children can remain safely at home. We will help families to identify what changes need to be made in their daily life and support them to achieve these. As a Child and Family Worker you will support registered Social Workers in assessing, planning and delivering interventions to children and families, including supporting step-down processes and transfer to Early Help services.

You will develop and offer a creative range of services for children and their families to meet needs as identified e.g., undertaking direct work and purposeful interventions with children, young people, parents / carers, families and groups, and delivering support packages or specific programmes.

Services will be provided in partnership with families, aiming to support them to make positive change and to enable children and young people to reach their full potential.

You will need to establish effective working relationships with colleagues within Children’s Social Care, Foster Carers and other statutory and voluntary agencies, for example staff from health and education, in order to provide an integrated service.

**WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED** Key Skills**
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to organise and present information clearly, concisely and accurately
- Ability to analyse and interpret information in order to manage casework with children/ young people and their families
- Ability to engage and intervene in partnership with children/young people, their families and other external agencies in order to effect positive and lasting change.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload, co-ordinating a range of tasks in a clear and logical way to meet agreed deadlines.
- Ability to maintain clear, accurate records of all work undertaken and produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences.
- Sound and accurate IT skills, including report writing, maintaining accurate records, ensuring confidentiality, and protecting information.

**Qualifications, knowledge and experience**

**_ Essential_**
- QCF Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce, or demonstrable equivalent comparable experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of the development of children and young people, and age-appropriate behaviour.
- An understanding of a range of interventions that can be used with children, young people, and families to achieve change.
- Sound and accurate IT knowledge e.g., Microsoft Office.
- Experience of providing advice and guidance to others.
- Significant experience of using a range of direct work interventions in working with children, young people and their families.
- Experience of using assessment planning and reviewing processes.
- Experience of forming effective working relationships within a multiagency setting.
- Requirement to communicate in English with members of the public
- You will need to be able to travel independently around the county, including to areas that may not be easily accessible by public transport. Pool cars and pool bikes available.

**_Desirable_**
- Experience of working with children/young people and their families in crisis or complex situations.
- Experience of working in a Social Care Environment.
- An understanding of systems, procedures and policies relevant to Children’s Social Care e.g., child protection and safeguarding procedures, practice and policy.

**BENEFITS**
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity you will receive:

- A competi

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