This role is a maternity cover role until 3rd November 2025
What will the role look like?
The Family Plus team works within Forward Leeds supporting families of service users engaged in treatment for issues around drugs and alcohol. The team engages on a preventative and early help model, working with families whose requirements are below the child protection threshold. The purpose of the engagement is to improve the functioning of the family and assist in getting available support to maintain changes. The team consists of family plus workers based across each of the three Forward Leeds sites, an emotional health and wellbeing worker who works exclusively with the children of the families, a senior worker, and a Team Manager.
What we are looking for?
We are looking for someone with experience in providing intensive case support for families with children of any age to assist the family in care planning, achieving recovery, and ensuring that children are safeguarded at all times. We are looking for individuals who are comfortable working in close association with all the different teams within Forward Leeds.
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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) generated answers is discouraged. The use of AI may affect the depth and understanding required to demonstrate successful answers to experience and knowledge-based questions in our shortlisting process. Barca-Leeds uses humans to shortlist for interviews.
Barca-Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. It is the organisation’s policy to require the successful applicant to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check at a level appropriate to the role before appointment is confirmed. The disclosure of a criminal conviction will not necessarily exclude candidates from appointment.
Please note that although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this job role.
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