Family Support Worker
- Durham County Council
- Full Time
- Chester-le-Street
- Grade 6 £27,269 - £30,060
Job Description
Are you passionate about Early Help and Prevention work?
Do you want to work in an ambitious Local Authority with strong leadership and partnership commitment to Early Help?
Durham County Council are on a continuous improvement journey in relation to its Early Help service.
Recent Ofsted Inspection highlighted "Children in need of help and protection benefit from a wide range of services delivered through well-established and well-coordinated early help hubs. There is a prompt response to meet the changing needs and risks of families through discussion at weekly early help meetings. A proactive culture of working in partnership with families leads to children and families receiving sensitive and proportionate early help support" Ofsted report (June 2022)WHAT IS INVOLVED?
You will work alongside a Key Worker to deliver practical interventions at the earliest opportunity to enable families to make significant and sustained changes that will impact positively upon themselves and their children.
The successful candidate is required to develop and use a range of approaches to engage and build an effective working relationship with parents and families, to enable positive change to take place for themselves and their children; to work with parents to empower them to enable them to identify, acknowledge and meet their own and their children's needs, develop life skills, make and sustain effective change and reduce vulnerability.
You will also use a Signs of Safety approach and 'Team around the Family' processes to contribute to whole family assessments and family plans and liaise with other relevant partners as appropriate.
We encourage you to contact Nicola I'Anson, Senior Key Worker, via email on Nicola.I'Anson@durham.gov.uk to arrange an informal discussion about the role.
WHAT WILL I NEED?
The successful candidate will require relevant experience and a passion to work with and support vulnerable children and families in the home and community settings; evidence of delivering planned interventions using evidence-based practice leading to improved outcomes; experience of group facilitation and responding effectively to safeguarding issues and concerns.
You will also require a Level 3 qualification in a relevant Children's Services field and evidence of continuous professional development.
Please refer to the attached person specification for the full criteria.
The successful applicant for this post will be required to apply for a Disclosure & Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure.
REWARDS AND BENEFITS
We offer generous rewards and benefits that are designed to help you perform at your best:
- Competitive salaries and 27 days holiday per year rising to 32 days after five years continuous local government service.
- Option to purchase up to 10 additional days annual leave per year.
- Excellent work/life balance through schemes including job sharing, compressed hours and flexi-time (allowing up to 13 flexi days per year).
- Excellent contributory career average Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). Plus, top up options - Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme and standard AVC scheme for members of the LGPS.
- Wellbeing Portal and access to an Employee Assist Scheme.
- Wide range of learning and development opportunities including professional qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
- Employee Benefits Portal and Lifestyle Savings Scheme (discounts across a host of major retailers).
- Discounted DCC gym membership.
- Staff networks run by staff for our staff, including Race Equality and Diversity, Disability, LGBT+, Armed Forces, Carers, Menopause.
- Trade Union membership.
- A range of other salary sacrifice schemes such as car leasing.
