Family Intervention Worker - Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom - Cheshire West & Chester

Cheshire West & Chester

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Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Family Intervention Worker:

We currently have two vacancies for a Family Intervention Worker.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Intervention Hub for a Family Intervention Worker based at Civic Way, Ellesmere Port.

The Intervention Hub offers a locality wide support and intervention service to children known to Children's Social Care and requiring the support of Child in Need, Child Protection or Looked After Child planning.

You will be expected to travel across the borough between the Ellesmere Port/Neston, Chester and Northwich/Winsford districts within this role.

Organisation

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Location

Ellesmere Port

Job Category

Children and Young People Services

Grade

CWAC NJC
Grade 7

Salary Min
- £28,770 per annum

Salary Max
- £32,076 per annum

Hours per week

Weeks per year

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

22/03/2024

Ref No

W3233

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

The role of Family Intervention Worker will require you to provide a high-quality family intervention service to families open to Children's Social Care and deliver relevant interventions in order to ensure that immediate needs are met whilst also aiming to effect long-term positive change to improve the welfare and life experiences of children, young people, and their families.

Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children in our Authority by providing a consistent, high-quality service to children and families, together with the support from excellent leadership and management.

It is an exciting time to join Cheshire West and Chester.

We are very proud that Ofsted have rated us as one of the top performing Children's Services in the country; receiving overall "good" in our 2015 inspection and retaining "good" in our recent inspection in 2019.

OFSTED has acknowledged that our children benefit from a stable and resilient workforce. We are approved as a Partner in Practice with the Department of Education and won
"Overall council of the Year" and
"Best Innovation" awards in 2018. We have developed and continue to embed 'New Ways of Working' with our multi-agency partners in order to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to practice utilising Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice. Our teams are encouraged to work creatively in planning and decision-making with children and their families in order to achieve positive outcomes and with a focus on prevention at every level.

As a local authority, we have developed an inspirational offer to support and develop our valued workforce, including;

High quality progression and developmental opportunities
Free parking at all our office locations
Worklife balance, flexible and remote working arrangements available, including up to date IT equipment, and a smart mobile phone for all employees
Competitive working rewards
High quality supervision
Strong reflective practice framework

As employers, we recognise that Cheshire West and Chester Council has a major role to play in improving the quality of life of its employees.

We are committed to agile flexible and mobile working and helping employees to maintain an effective balance between their work and home life.

In March 2019,
OFSTED said that our staff are positive about working in Cheshire West and Chester; they ensure that they know the children they work with well and demonstrate this when talking about them.

This means that our workforce is able to gain more experience and knowledge to support the children and families they work with.

Strong political and senior leadership team has a wealth of experience and knowledge about children's outcomes across the boroughs of Cheshire West and Chester.

Children's social care and the wider partnership use this understanding well to target areas for continued improvement.

It is an exciting time to join Cheshire West and Chester.

If you would like further information please contact Fiona Vaughan

Mobile Number:
Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our empl