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 Deborah Dolby at Deborah.Dolby@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.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
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
At Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, children, young people and families are at the heart of all we do – in every decision we make and every action we take. Our mission is driven by the unwavering commitment to achieving the best outcomes for them. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils.
Our workforce are our most valuable asset and are pivotal to making the services and support we offer to children, young people and families who need us to be the absolute best we can be.
We value our colleagues and empower them to be able to do the best job of their lives every single day, working in a culture of support and kindness where achievements are celebrated and creativity is very much welcomed.
At NCT equality, diversity and inclusion are part of us and in everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and thrive in our organisation. We are a disability confident employer and have a commitment to care leavers who we guarantee an interview if they meet the essential criteria.
Join our dedicated team and be a part of an organisation where your work makes a real difference.
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