PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Wigston /various locality offices in the County.
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £28.605 - £31.029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 15 & 37 hours per week (2 posts available)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 25th August
Interview Date(s): week commencing 25th August
About the Role
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference?
Can you offer good communication skills and capacity in supporting children and families in challenging circumstances
Do you enjoy supporting parents to help their children grow and thrive
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
Please refer to the 7 point criteria giving examples of how you meet the criteria below
1. To work as part of an integrated team to provide a range of home/centre-based family support interventions that contribute to achieving an improvement in outcomes for children, young people and families.
2. To work as part of an integrated team providing support for families, young people regarding issues of housing, benefits, education, employment and independence skills.
3. To be accountable for identified appropriate direct work with children and families using a strength and trauma informed practice approach.
4. To advise and guide parents and where relevant young people in managing household affairs, practical child care tasks, and other means of providing for the care of children. This may involve flexible work patterns including early mornings, early evenings and occasionally weekends
5. To contribute to safeguarding assessments and plans and report observations with regard to the standards of care provided by parents and contribute to discussions with social workers, and Support and Assessment Workers
6. To supervise and monitor contact when part of the child’s plan.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jessica Noake -Team Manager Helen Wooldridge - Team Manager
Telephone: 01163051447
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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