Job Introduction
The Family Practitioner Service works with families using a restorative approach, offering high support and high challenge and interventions to help stabilise and support children, young people and their families to remain together and have positive outcomes.
The service is holistic, working with families, children and young people and their carers to enable them to reach their full potential. Often working in a fast-paced environment, you will need good organisational skills to meet competing demands, and effective relationship building abilities. 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
As a Family Practitioner you will be delivering a range of interventions to families, children and young people in a variety of settings including their home, school and in the community, to help address and support their often complex needs and vulnerabilities.
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 skills, be an empathetic listener and have good analytical skills and the confidence to effectively challenge whilst maintaining relationships.
As part of a team, you will be required to complete duty tasks as scheduled, and support the delivery of our groupwork programmes.
Family practitioners need to work collaboratively with social workers and various other professionals to support children in need, children on child protection plans and children in care.
The Ideal Candidate
Candidates will hold a minimum standard of NVQ3 in respect of working with children and their families or equivalent, plus an understanding of child development and the knowledge of mental health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, poverty and other vulnerabilities and how these impact on families.
Candidates will have the ability to communicate effectively with children, their families and carers. You will also have the ability to build relationships and deliver interventions to children, families and carers as well as being able to work effectively in conflict situations
Candidates will require the ability to use IT systems and to write a good standard of records/reports and have the commitment and ability to demonstrate restorative approaches when working with children and families.
For more information about this role please contact, Marie Brockley, Family Practitioner Lead at marie.brockley@staffordshire.gov.uk
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
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 Silver 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.
