Family Support Worker (3) - ANG05650

Angus Council; Arbroath; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Angus Council is seeking a dedicated individual to join the Enhance Team, providing vital support for young people and their families in a flexible working environment. This role requires engaging with families, conducting assessments, and delivering interventions to help maintain family connections while working varying hours, including evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• You must become a member of the PVG Scheme.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Support young people aged 12-18 and their families/carers at risk of breakdown.
• Assist the case responsible Social Worker in delivering intensive support.
• Work 36.25 hours per week, including scheduled evening support until 10 pm and weekends until 7 pm.

Skills

Flexibility

Communication

Empathy

Job description

Job Description

Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, including council buildings, service user's locations, site visits, and from home to best suit your work, meetings, and collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Enhance Team, formed in 2019 and recently undergone a service review. The review identified that young people and their families/carers require intensive support outside standard working hours, leading to an adaptation of the team to support this need.

Enhance provides an intensive, responsive, needs-led service supporting young people aged 12-18 and their families/carers at risk of breakdown. The service offers various interventions and assessments to support young people, family relationships, parenting, and reunification plans to enable families to stay together or reunite. This may involve daily sessions for young people, direct support for parents/carers, and group work. Enhance also supports young people from Angus who are looked after outside the local authority area.

You will support the case responsible Social Worker in the referring team, which has identified the need for intensive support. The young people may be receiving voluntary support, be looked after, supported via CARM processes, or be on the child protection register.

You may occasionally work across Scotland or the UK to support and assess young people, depending on their placement and living arrangements.

You will work 36.25 hours per week and be required to work on a rota system, covering scheduled evening support until 10 pm and weekends until 7 pm.

Please note: interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

You must be able to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to the job outline and person specification for further details and requirements.

About Angus Council

Refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form, the "welcome to Angus" document, and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are open to discussing flexible working during the recruitment process. We welcome conversations about working patterns and flexibility options for this role while managing the workload.

We offer guaranteed interviews to applicants who meet the essential criteria, including those with disabilities, recognized caring responsibilities, care-experienced young people, our employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships, and placements who meet the criteria.