Specialist Support Worker - Sutton, United Kingdom - London Borough of Sutton

London Borough of Sutton
London Borough of Sutton
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Sutton, United Kingdom

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Specialist Support Worker - Children's Services:

Employer

  • Sutton Council

Location(s)

  • Sutton

Contract Type

  • Permanent

Working Hours

  • Full Time

Grade

  • 7

Hour Per Week

  • 36

Salary Range
- £33,351 - £39,582 (£41,793 unconsolidated maximum)


Salary Basis

  • Per annum

Leave Entitlement

  • 27 days

Application Deadline
14/02/2023, 23:55


Anticipated Interview Date(s)
- tbc


About the Borough
In Sutton, there is much for us to be proud of both as a council and as a borough.

This includes high levels of resident satisfaction, the quality of our services, our success in addressing our financial challenges to date, the way that we involve and engage with residents on key issues facing the borough, and the enthusiastic and motivated staff that we employ.


Looking ahead, there are plans for the delivery of new homes and new schools and the London Cancer Hub is being developed, while the Council is also seen as a driving force within the South London Partnership of five outer south west London boroughs focused on strategic growth, regeneration and investment.


All of this demonstrates a good track record and an authority that is ambitious and set to deliver more improvements for the borough.

We've set out our vision for the future of Sutton in our corporate plan - Ambitious for Sutton.

This strategic plan will shape the outcomes we achieve, the services we provide, and the impact we have on residents, to make Sutton a great place to live, work and raise a family.


Situated in Zone 5, Sutton is less than 30 minutes by train from central London, and south and south west London are easily accessible by public transport.

There are 10 train stations which serve key neighbourhoods within the borough providing direct connections to London Victoria, London Bridge, London Blackfriars and St Pancras International.

Sutton also has direct rail connections with Epsom, Dorking, Guildford and Horsham, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and West Croydon for the London Overground.

There's also an extensive road network which provides close and easy access to the M25 and M23.


About the Role

  • As a Specialist Family Support worker within the Blue Locality team, you will be responsible for providing children, young people, and their parents with tailored packages of support to address identified needs. Families allocated to you will either be worked jointly with a social worker or for tier 2 cases you will be the lead worker and deliver support via the team around the family process. This role provides you with the opportunity to deliver creative services to families on an intense basis to bring out and embed change in the best interests of children and young people.

About Us

  • We are a specialist service that have a strong team consisting of Specialist Support Workers, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Finance that all work towards supporting children, young people and their families with managing their additional needs. Our aim is to help support families develop their long term resilience in managing their child or young person's needs. This may be through direct work with parent or child, signposting to universal or specialist services and assessing need to support through the form of a short breaks package. We have developed strong protocols and processes to support this process and continue to work on Transition's development to ensure a smooth transition for young people into adulthood.

About You


Our culture of strong, accessible and supportive management will provide you with good regular supervision and the opportunity to take part in training.


Our Offer To You


As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills.

We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.


In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
  • Flexitime (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 19 only)
  • Comprehensive learning and development programme
  • Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
  • Interest free season ticket loans
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Car parking scheme
  • Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
  • Zip car scheme
  • Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
  • Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
  • Subsidised gym member
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