Futures Matter Intensive Support Worker

WMJobs; Stafford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a passionate team as an Intensive Support Worker, making a real difference for children and families in Staffordshire. You will provide tailored support to young people at risk of family breakdown, ensuring they remain or return home safely. This role involves working closely with families, social workers, and other professionals to create stability and promote positive family dynamics. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience and qualifications, and be ready to work flexibly to meet the needs of those you support.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and families in their homes.
• Experience delivering various interventions.

Responsibilities

• Support young people and their parents with tailored packages.
• Maintain positive relationships to promote stability at home.
• Record all work accurately on electronic files.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Level 3 NVQ in Childcare

Job description

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Staffordshire County Council, 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 TeamWhat 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.

we also support Social Workers with the re-assessments of family members to progress family time with the aim being to support children and young people to return home after being in our care. The team also support children to return home where there is an agreed plan of reunification. Our approach is solution-focused, relational drawing upon strength-based methods of interventions to meet each family’s specific 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 draws upon a range of specialist skills interventions, including Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused methodology. The team also has a Young Persons Substance Misuse Worker seconded into the team.

Main Responsibilities

You will :

be responsible for supporting young people (8-18 years of age) and their parents developing a tailored package of support, drawing upon other resources within the team as appropriate to remain or return home to their family.

maintain positive relationships, providing high support and high challenge to effect changes in family dynamics to promote stability at home.

work restoratively with families, offering an intense and a robust package of support for young people and their families where there is a risk of family breakdown. This may be as a result of Adverse Childhood Experiences, relationship difficulties or where exploitation is a significant risk.

take responsibility for the accurate recording of all work undertaken on the electronic file in keeping with the agreed timeframes within the Intensive Prevention Service.

Participate in all team meetings, training, the duty system and in developing the service.The Ideal Candidate

You will

have experience of working with children / young people and their families within their own homes.

have experience of delivering a variety of interventions / direct work to address presenting issues.

a Level 3 NVQ in Childcare or equivalent qualification relevant to working with children and their families.

access to a car at all times where mileage and an essential car allowance is paid.

able to work flexibly which includes working weekends on a rota basis and in an evening to support the children and families that you are working with of which you will receive additional increments.Interviews will be held in June at Staffordshire Place 1.

For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact [e-mail] or 07815 999066

On this occasion previous applicants will not accepted.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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