Initial Response Team - Family Support Worker
Family Support Worker IRT
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Initial Response Team; we are seeking to recruit experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Family Support Workers, to work alongside Social Workers within IRT to support families and those around them to meet children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.
The post offers the chance to contribute to high quality service delivery, to further develop strong partnership/cross service working and, in collaboration with their team, innovate and build on the good practice that is already in place.
The Initial Response Teams in Bury are fast paced, lively and interesting and would ideally suit Family Support Workers who are proactive and adaptable, and who have a passion for ensuring that Children and Families in our area receive a positive and timely first experience of our service.The work is immensely rich and varied day to day and allows for a high level of multi-agency working often to tight timelines.
About you
We want to invest in you, and we have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form relationships, seeing the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to support families to live together safely and for children and young people to thrive.
Candidates must have excellent communication skills which will enable them, to undertake effective family engagement which builds on a family’s strength and coping strategies, incorporating a strong degree of challenge for families to change, supporting and enabling them to resolve multiple and complex difficulties leading to sustainable change.
Previous experience of working with Cared for Children and their families in a social care environment would be an advantage.
You will need to have good knowledge of Child Development, Attachment theories, assessing parenting capacity and the importance of the benefits of promoting and managing supervised Family Time.
Employee Benefits include:
- Re-imbursement of the annual £90 Social Work England registration fees (conditions apply).
- Pay increases in line with your continued professional development.
- Free parking where you work- worth £860 a year for qualified Social Workers who work from town centre locations where there is no ready access to free parking, plus car mileage.
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A range of attractive work/life balance policies.
- 26 days annual leave(rising to 31 days after 5 years), plus an additional day of leave over the Christmas period and the option to buy an additional 10 days on top of that.
- Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local business within the borough as well as a
- Cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through challenging times, with things like free counselling, financial or legal advice.
We have improved our interview process too - you will get a quick response to your application, and we have regular interview days.
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We listen
We hold monthly Voice of the Workforce meetings where we discuss how we can resolve practice challenges and create better conditions for social work to thrive.
We encourage work-life balance
We want our Social Workers to have enough time to relax, spend time with family and friends, and feel good, so that they can do their best at work.
Please be aware that we are not carrying out international recruitment at present and are currently unable to support sponsorship visas.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
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