Intensive Family Support Worker

12 hours ago

Halton, United Kingdom HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL Full time

Job Introduction
**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**:
The Edge of Care Team is a newly developed service within Halton, designed to provide intensive, relationship-based support to children, young people, and their families at a critical point of need. The team’s primary focus is on preventing family breakdown and reducing the need for children to enter local authority care. Working at the heart of our relationship-based practice model, the Edge of Care Team will deliver timely, responsive, and therapeutic interventions that help families stay together safely. As a key part of Halton’s commitment to positive practice and systemic working, this team will be instrumental in driving better outcomes for children—ensuring they have every opportunity to thrive within their family and community.

**Hours**: 37hrs per week

**Your Contributions**:
We are looking for a passionate, nurturing and tenacious professional to join our Edge of Care Team, ‘supporting our children and families staying together’. This will involve you responding to our children and families experiencing acute distress with a primary focus of reducing the likelihood of our children and young people entering Local Authority care. You will work flexibly and swiftly with children, young people and their families / carers, and any relevant agency to ensure risks are mitigated and our children are kept safe.You will demonstrate flexibility and resilience, with strong skills in influencing, negotiating, and developing effective action plans. Excellent communication is essential to this role, so the ability to communicate clearly and confidently—both verbally and in writing—is key

You must be willing to work as part of a rota that includes weekends and out of core hours.

**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 are expected to take place on 21st July 2025.

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

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