About the role
Do you have the skills and experience to engage and build positive trusting relationships with parents, children, and young people to inspire them to make worthwhile changes and improve life opportunities?
As Children’s Services are improving, exciting new opportunities have opened in the Safeguarding Service based in the Northampton area. We are looking to recruit a Family Support Worker to be part of the team building meaningful relationships with children and their families helping them to grow, prosper and achieve.
The role will be based in Northampton but you will be required to move effectively across the county and beyond if required.
For more information about this role or to arrange an informal chat please contact Ciaran.Perry@NCTrust.co.uk .
What will you be doing?
The Family Support Worker would provide focussed family support to children and families with complex needs, many of whom are either on Child in Need or Child Protection Plans or part of an assessment process. The successful candidates will work with the whole family to improve parenting capacity, undertaking direct work with children, and providing support to families to increase the skills, confidence, and abilities of all family members to live their daily lives in a positive and safe way.
About you
You are self-motivated and have the ability and skills to provide key pieces of direct work to children and families and to work with multi agency colleagues.
You are enthusiastic, highly motivated, with the ability to work both independently and in a team and have experience of working directly with families and children.
You are able to support with assessment-based work and have good recording skills.
You have current experience in Family Support.
When applying please ensure your supporting statement covers how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification as this will be used for shortlisting. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
- Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Subsidised town centre car parking scheme
About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.
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