Community Support Worker

6 days ago

Halton, United Kingdom HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL Full time

Job Introduction
**Halton Borough Council is seeking to recruit an experienced Community Support Worker**

Do you have excellent people and communication skills, and enjoy working with children and families? We are seeking a motivated and compassionate person to join our team; someone who has the passion to make a difference to the lives of children within Halton.

**Our Story**:
Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

**Our Team**:
You will be based in the Child in Need/Protection team working alongside and supporting Social Workers with vulnerable children and families.

**Hours**: 37 per week

**Your Contributions**:
Community Support Workers undertake various interventions, including parenting, healthy relationships, self-protection work, preventative interventions, wishes, and feelings, to ensure that the lived experience of the child is heard and understood.You will contribute to Social Work assessments, attend meetings, and keep children’s records up to date.

You must be able to work as part of a team, and be flexible, adaptable, and responsive, as this is a service where the needs of service users come first, and no two days are ever the same.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, enthusiasm, and commitment, in order to provide the best possible support and advice to all parents. This is a diverse role, that requires flexibility and creative working to achieve best outcomes.

**Our Offer**:
Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

- A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
- Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
- 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
- Investment in your personal development
- Free Car Parking at HBC sites
- Flexible working arrangements
- Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme

**Next Steps**:
Interviews will provisionally take place W/C 10th June.

**Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

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