Family Time Worker

Cheshire East Council; Crewe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional council in Crewe is seeking dedicated professionals to join their Family Time Team in Children’s Social Care. The role involves providing high-quality contact for looked after children and their families, promoting their well-being and maintaining accurate records of observations. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and knowledge of the Cared For Children Service. This position offers flexible working hours and a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Flexible work-life balance

Focus on health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Cared For Children Service.
• High degree of interpersonal skills.
• Ability to converse at ease with children and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality child led contact to looked after children.
• Observe and offer relevant support during contact.
• Promote quality and stimulate contact for children and families.
• Record all observations accurately as per the policy.
• Establish professional relationships with families and social workers.
• Work flexible hours according to service needs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication with children and families

Job description

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Joining Children’s Social Care at Cheshire East Council means becoming part of a progressive, supportive and forward-thinking service that is dedicated to make a difference of the lives of children and young people. We pride ourselves on putting children and young people first and helping them become the very best version of themselves possible.

Our working culture is people focused ensuring every team member is supported and provided with all the tools needed to thrive in their role. We have competitive benefits, flexible work-life balance and a focus on health and wellbeing ensuring that you can achieve your career aspirations and goals whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

By joining us you will be part of a council that is helping to build brighter futures for the children's and families we serve, where you can make a lasting memory on the lives of others every day.

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within our Family Time Team within the Cared For Children Service. The position is for 2 FTE (37 hours) per week over a Monday to Friday working pattern.

About you

You will provide high quality child led contact to looked after children and young people with their families taking place within a contact centre or the wider community.

You will observe, and offer relevant support and guidance during contact to ensure that the immediate safety and needs of the child are met.

You will promote quality and stimulated contact and provide accurate and relevant written and verbal information to contribute to the ongoing care plan for looked after children and young people.

Other key elements of the role include:

• Provide an efficient and needs led supervised contact service to children, young people and their families both within a contact centre and when accessing community resources as directed by the Family Time Manager.
• Effectively communicate with children, young people and their families to enable them to have quality and child led contact.
• You will be required to record all observations as per current recording policy. This includes maintaining accurate, good quality records that evidences the observations made within the child’s contact.
• Establish and sustain effective professional working relationships with children, their families, and other professionals. Ensuring that a high standard of service is provided to looked after children, young people, and their families.
• Attend planning meetings with social workers to provide feedback to support the planning and reviewing process for looked after children and young people.
• Work flexible hours,including early morning, evening and weekend work as required according to the service needs.

The successful candidate will have:

• Knowledge of the Cared For Children Service
• A high degree of interpersonal skills
• The ability to converse at ease with our children and families