Main Responsibilities
You will:
* Work with children and young people, their families, and carers to maintain positive relationships, providing high support and high challenge to effect changes in family dynamics to promote stability at home.
* Work weekends on a rota basis and in the evening to support the children and families that you are working with.
* Work restoratively with families, offering an intense and robust package of support delivering practical and evidenced-based interventions to ensure parents are equipped with skills to safely parent.
* Take responsibility for the accurate recording of all work undertaken on the electronic file in keeping with the agreed timeframes within Breathing Space/Futures Matters.
* Participate in all team meetings (Wednesdays), training, the duty system, and in developing the service.
* Transport and attend groups with parents as and when required.
* Develop and review plans of interventions, attend statutory meetings, providing reports for courts as and when requested.
The Ideal Candidate
You will:
* Be passionate and motivated to support children to remain living with their family.
* Have a positive attitude and the ability to work in a solution-focused way with families.
* Have a level 3 NVQ or equivalent qualification relating to children and families.
* Be able to evidence supporting children and their families within their homes, delivering direct work and being creative in the way that you work to engage children and their families to enable them to remain or return to the care of their family. Or have experience of working in a statutory/voluntary environment which provides services to vulnerable children and their families.
* Have demonstrable evidence of working restoratively with families, building on strengths, relationships, and promoting resilience.
* Have access to a car at all times where mileage and an essential car allowance is paid as required.
This role is currently subject to a review of weekend working arrangements, including any paid enhancements.
Interviews will take place on the 3rd March 2025 in Staffordshire Place 1, Stafford Town Centre.
For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact kirsten.booth@staffordshire.gov.uk or 07815 999066.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council. Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of our 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.
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.
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 backgrounds 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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