Family Help Assistant

Cheshire East Council; Middlewich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire East Council recherche un Assistant d'Aide Familiale passionné pour apporter un soutien essentiel aux familles dans le besoin. Dans ce rôle, vous vous concentrerez sur l'évaluation des besoins des familles, la mise en place de programmes basés sur des données probantes et la collaboration avec diverses agences pour assurer des interventions efficaces. Vous serez déterminant pour garantir que les familles reçoivent une aide appropriée au bon moment.

Qualifications

• Expérience de travail avec des enfants et familles dans un cadre de services sociaux.
• Capacité à réaliser des assessments et à travailler en équipe avec d'autres agences.

Responsibilities

• Planifier, livrer, et évaluer les interventions pour les familles.
• Collaborer avec les services pour soutenir des programmes ciblés.
• Maintenir des dossiers précis sur le système de gestion des cas.

Skills

Planification

Évaluation holistique

Collaboration

Compétences en gestion de cas

Sensibilité aux besoins des familles

Education

Qualification pertinente pour travailler avec des enfants et familles

Job description

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Family Help Assistant

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of families and children? Join our dedicated team at Cheshire East Council as a Family Help Assistant. In this role, you will work in partnership across a range of early help and prevention services, ensuring families receive effective support at the right time to reduce the need for more acute and statutory services. We have one role available covering the north of the borough.

Organisation: Cheshire East Council

Location: Alsager, Sandbach, Crewe, Middlewich, Nantwich

Job Category: Children and Young People Services

Grade: CEC NJC - Grade 5

Salary Range: Min £25,584 per annum - Max £27,269 per annum

Hours per week: 37

Weeks per year: 52.143

Employment Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 08/07/2025

Ref No: E3141

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Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we offer a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

We are committed to a workplace culture that provides a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, with the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, we encourage you to apply. We value diversity and are an equal opportunities employer, reflecting the communities we serve.

About the role

We are committed to the new reforms around the Families First initiative, focusing on early help and preventative services to families. Our Family Help Framework aims to reduce risks and prevent more intensive interventions, aligning with national and local priorities.

In this job you will:

• Enable families to receive appropriate and timely interventions across the 0-19 age continuum by planning, delivering, and reviewing interventions following the Family Help Framework.
• Support the setup and delivery of evidence-based programmes to improve outcomes for families.
• Undertake holistic low-level assessments of family situations, using relevant tools, and plan, deliver, and review support programs, prioritising vulnerable children and hard-to-reach families.
• Maintain effective and timely records on the case management system for audits, information sharing, and reporting.
• Work in partnership with children’s services and other agencies to support targeted and coordinated programmes.
• Identify and support children and families experiencing difficulties early, sharing information with line managers to monitor and evaluate services.
• Seek and act on the views of service users, ensuring parental involvement and child voice are central in interactions.
• Understand and comply with statutory requirements, policies, and procedures, including safeguarding policies to ensure children’s safety.
• Engage young people across services and with parents to re-engage them with provision/services.

If you need further information, please contact Kathryn Battams at 07773 227942. Interviews are scheduled for the week commencing 17th and 18th July 2025.

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Disclosure of any relevant convictions is required as part of the application process. Please check your email regularly for updates. If you do not hear within 4 weeks after the closing date, your application may not have been shortlisted. Please quote the job reference number in all correspondence.