Intensive Family Support Specialist

Community Care Live; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Health Assured EAP

LGPS pension

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Community Care Live is seeking an Intensive Worker based in our North-West Hampshire Specialist Intensive Worker Hub. You’ll work closely with Social Workers and other professionals to deliver strengths-based support that helps families build resilience and sustainable change.

You’ll support families in their homes and communities, sometimes outside standard hours, and you’ll have flexibility to adapt your working pattern with supervision and training to meet each family's needs.

Qualifications

• Experience working directly with parents and families, particularly those with complex needs.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, including mediation and negotiation.
• Ability to work independently and use initiative within a supportive team environment.
• Proficient IT skills and the ability to produce clear, structured written reports.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct, intensive support and tailored interventions to families, helping parents safeguard and achieve positive outcomes for their children.
• Work with children and families facing a wide range of complex needs, delivering parenting support and practical guidance in the home and community.
• Facilitate and support meaningful, sustainable change through direct work with parents and children.
• Collaborate with professionals across services to plan and deliver coordinated support.
• Complete reports and assessments, including court reports and specialist parenting assessments (Cubas), and organise Family Network Meetings to engage wider support networks.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Mediation & negotiation

Independent working

Job description

Community Care Live is seeking an Intensive Worker based in our North-West Hampshire Specialist Intensive Worker Hub. You’ll work closely with Social Workers and other professionals to deliver strengths-based support that helps families build resilience and sustainable change.

You’ll support families in their homes and communities, sometimes outside standard hours, and you’ll have flexibility to adapt your working pattern with supervision and training to meet each family's needs.