Senior Family Support Worker
Date: 23 Oct 2024
Job Location: Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
* Job Title: Senior Family Support Worker
* Job Location: Dean House, Cinderford
* Salary: £34,834 - £38,223 per annum
* Hours per Week: 37
* Contract Type: Fixed Term
* Duration: Until 31/03/2025
* Closing Date: 10/11/2024
* Job Requisition Number: 10138
* This post is open to job share
We are currently recruiting for a full time Senior Family Support Worker within the Families First Early Help team on a fixed term basis until the end of March 2025.
Reward and support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
* between £34,834 - £38,223 per annum subject to experience
* flexible and agile working opportunities
* 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
* option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
* family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
* supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
* Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
* access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
* an in-house Occupational Health service
* employee discount scheme
* cycle to work scheme
* links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
* career development and qualification opportunities
* access to our Social Work Academy
About the role
As a Senior Family Support worker your key responsibilities will be around line management of Family Support Workers, practice development and quality assurance with a focus on improving and developing service delivery. This will include line management of staff and managing issues which arise on a day-to-day basis, identifying and delivering training.
You will be supporting Family Support Workers to build supportive and empowering relationships with families and helping them to engage parents through creative and innovative strategies, in line with partner agencies and organisations.
You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect.
About you
As a Senior Family Support Worker within the Early Help team, you will be joining an experienced, supportive and child focused team, who are committed to delivering the best outcomes for children.
We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions.
Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must.
The role of a Senior Family Support Worker requires you to work flexibly and may include working evenings and weekends.
As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:
* a full driving licence and willingness to drive
* DBS clearance
How to apply
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Jac Holloway on Jac.Holloway@gloucestershire.gov.uk.
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications.
This Position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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