Specialist Family Support Worker - Wellbeing in Education Team, Early Help and Prevention
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time (18.5 hours per week), exact days and times can be discussed at interview
Closing date: Sunday 3 November 2024, 23:59
Why come to live and work in Portsmouth?
Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work.Portsmouth has a strong history of partnership working and has successfully integrated several local services.
The Service and what we are looking for:
Are you an experienced family support practitioner with a passion for working with children and families with a range of challenges? Are you able to demonstrate excellent skills at a specialist level, which will support and empower families to make positive changes?Do you understand the challenges families experience and have a creative approach to solving them? Have you experience of working alongside families where Child Mental Health needs are a barrier to school attendance? If so, you might be the person we are looking for.
Your New Role:
You will engage with families and young people to assess need holistically and work with them to develop sustainable solutions that improve their ability to achieve better outcomes for their children. You will apply your specialist knowledge of Education, Child Mental Health and interventions relating to this to contribute to the Portsmouth 'Team Around the Worker' approach.You will provide specialist advice, complete Family Support Plans, and work directly with individuals, families and groups on a range of issues such as problematic/challenging behaviour, emotional wellbeing, alcohol and drug misuse, healthy relationships, family relationships, and housing and income.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll need to succeed:
You have a nationally recognised qualification such as NVQ level 5 or other higher-level qualification or equivalent experience, and specialist knowledge in Education and Child Mental Health. You can advise, guide and influence other professionals within your specialist remit.You have an up to date working knowledge of safeguarding children and young people, and experience of working with children, young people, and families. You have a positive attitude to helping young people and delivering a safe and effective offer, and a flexible approach to service delivery focused on good outcomes.
You have excellent communication skills, can respond to changing priorities, and have high quality record keeping skills. You are a car driver with access to transport or able to easily access public transport to move across Portsmouth City.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
What you'll get in return:
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Additional Information:
The full job profile is attached here.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Jonathan Swales, Family Support Supervisor, Jonathan.Swales@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 437 852
A commitment to our values:
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
Application process:
How to complete your application: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Please submit both a CV and a cover letter/personal statement. Remember to demonstrate in your cover letter/personal statement why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' section of the full Job Profile, using examples from your experience or transferable skills.This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.
If you upload a CV without a cover letter/personal statement, it is unlikely that your application will be successful.
Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body. Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding children's roles.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Please note that we may shortlist as we receive applications, so this advert may close earlier than the given date.
We look forward to speaking with you soon.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.