Job Introduction
The Family Practitioner Service is expanding into the new Family Help model, where Child in Need families and Early Help families are managed within one Service. The Family Help Service will work with families and others using a restorative approach, offering high support and high challenge with interventions to help stabilise and support children, young people and their families to remain together and have positive outcomes. Family’s needs are often interconnected and have underlying causes, therefore you will need to have skills in delivering a variety of interventions to support families facing multiple and complex challenges.
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.
Main Responsibility
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 need to have experience in the delivery of evidenced-based practise, with the flexibility to adjust your communications to promote equality and inclusion.
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. We also deliver Parenting Programmes and Parenting Forums so you will need to have some experience in leading groupwork sessions.
As part of a team, you will be required to complete duty tasks as scheduled.
The Ideal Candidate
You will:
- Be educated to a Level 3 qualification in a relevant subject, with Level 2 in Maths and English , and 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 and experience of supporting, 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.
For more information about this vacancy, please contact Sue Spencer or Fay Gibson on sue.spencer@staffordshire.gov.uk or fay.gibson@staffordshire.gov.uk
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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.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
