Futures Matter Intensive Support Worker

Staffordshire County Council; Stafford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a passionate and creative team dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of children and families. This role focuses on providing intensive support to young people at risk, utilizing a range of specialist interventions like Non-Violent Resistance and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. You'll develop tailored support packages and maintain positive relationships with families to promote stability and reunification. This opportunity offers a supportive working environment within a community-oriented organization committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare. If you're ready to make an impact, this is the role for you!

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Access to various rewards and benefits

Essential car allowance

Flexibility to work weekends and evenings

Qualifications

• Experience working with families in their homes.
• Delivering various interventions to address issues.

Responsibilities

• Support young people (8-18 years) and their parents.
• Develop tailored support packages to help children remain at home.
• Maintain positive relationships to promote stability.

Skills

Experience with children/young people

Solution-Focused methodology

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)

Relationship management

Education

Level 3 NVQ in Childcare

Equivalent qualification in working with children

Job description

Join Our Intensive Prevention Service Team!

Our Intensive Prevention Service is part of Futures Matter, which supports children and families in Staffordshire. Futures Matter encompasses:

• Intensive Prevention Service
• Youth Offending Service
• Saplings and Prevention
• Family Group Conference Service
• Breathing Space
• Child Exploitation Team

What We Do:

We believe children are best placed living within their family network. As a team, we:

• Provide intense support to children on the edge of care to help them stay at home.
• Support Social Workers with re-assessments of family members to facilitate family time, aiming to support children and young people to return home after being in our care.
• Support children to return home where there is an agreed plan of reunification.

Our approach is solution-focused, relational, and draws upon strength-based methods of interventions tailored to each family's needs.

Who We Work With:

We partner with social work teams, family support teams, and other professionals, including those in the third sector. Our team is based in Stafford but works across Staffordshire and sometimes beyond.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a passionate, creative, and supportive team that makes a real difference. Our team utilizes a range of specialist interventions, including Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused methodology. We also have a Young Persons Substance Misuse Worker seconded into the team.

Main Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for supporting young people (8-18 years) and their parents.
• Develop tailored support packages, utilizing team resources to help children remain or return home.
• Maintain positive relationships, providing high support and high challenge to effect change in family dynamics and promote stability.
• Work restoratively with families, offering intensive and robust support where there is a risk of breakdown, due to Adverse Childhood Experiences, relationship difficulties, or exploitation.
• Accurately record all work undertaken on the electronic file within the agreed timeframes.
• Participate in team meetings, training, duty systems, and service development.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience working with children/young people and their families in their homes.
• Experience delivering various interventions/direct work addressing presenting issues.
• Level 3 NVQ in Childcare or equivalent qualification relevant to working with children and families.
• Access to a car at all times with mileage and an essential car allowance.
• Flexibility to work weekends on a rota and evenings, with additional increments.

Interviews will be held in June at Staffordshire Place 1. For more information or an informal chat, contact [e-mail] or 07815 999066.

Previous applicants will not be accepted.

Our Recruitment Process:

Applications are anonymized during shortlisting. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight your suitability for the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are a county council with a strong community spirit, ambitious for a better future, and committed to diversity and inclusion. Our benefits include a supportive working environment and access to various rewards and benefits.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. This position is subject to a DBS check. Please disclose any relevant criminal record information in your application.