Family Support Worker

Warwickshire County Council; Atherstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government agency in Atherstone is seeking a Senior Family Support Worker to join their Parenting Practitioner Team. This role involves completing assessments and supporting parents to enable safe parenting. Applicants need relevant qualifications and substantial experience in family support work, along with fluency in spoken English. The role offers benefits such as a generous pension scheme, annual leave, and well-being support.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Wellbeing and Volunteering Day

Generous pension scheme

Agile working options

Benefits and discounts platform

Qualifications

• Experience working collaboratively with parents, children, and social workers.
• Ability to complete and present specialist assessments.
• Understanding of risk management and implementation of safe parenting plans.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to complete specialist assessments.
• Lead the implementation of support plans for parents.
• Write assessments in line with WCC & Family Court rules.

Skills

Relevant Child and family qualification to Level 3

Substantial experience as a family support worker

Fluency in English

Education

NVQ Level Four or equivalent qualification in relevant Child & Family / Youth Justice subject

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for the role of Senior Family Support Worker in our Parenting Practitioner Team on a full-time permanent basis. Warwickshire's Parenting Practitioner's Team brings together experienced family support workers and social workers that parents, carers and families can work with to achieve successful outcomes and sustained change in their own lives. An opportunity has arisen within the service for a family support worker to join the team to complete specialist assessments across the county including capacity to change, pre-birth assessments and parenting assessments to assist good decision making.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with parents, children, young people, social workers, FSW's and others to complete specialist assessments.
• To work with the case management social worker where possible on completing the assessments and where, to ensure there is a clear agreed purpose and outcome for the assessment.
• Identify and lead the implementation of support to parents to enable them to safely parent, during the assessment process.
• Write coherent and succinctly in line with WCC & Family Court rules.
• Manage and lead understanding of risk and work collaboratively to make recommendations and implement safe parenting plans.
• Be confident in presentation of assessments, with clear evidenced based rationale.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Applicants for the role will need a Relevant Child and family qualification to Level 3 with evidence of substantial experience as a family support worker or a NVQ Level Four or equivalent qualification in a relevant Child & Family / Youth Justice subject.
• Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
• North Warwickshire Family Help Team are looking for an experienced and dedicated family support worker to join our County Wide Parenting Practitioner Team as Warwickshire works on the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme.

About Warwickshire and Safeguarding

Warwickshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Benefits

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package if you're talking about a return to us with an ex colleague/friend.
• Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.
• The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.