Family help and support officer

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment. Family Help and Support Officer will understand the councils Continuum of Need in relation to children and families and practically apply this for contacts relating to children and families coming in through the front door. Ensuring that any safeguarding issues are appropriately escalated. Have an ability to consider large amounts of information and produce succinct, analytical reports that identify risk, protective factors, resilience of children, impact on family members, explanation of agency specific language, and provide recommendations based on experience within the field. Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for Children in our authority by providing a consistent, high quality service to families together with the support from excellent leadership and management. It is an exciting time to join our authority. We will provide you with a supportive and collaborative working environment in modern and bright offices, where you can be assured of excellent management support and supervision where your personal career development and progression is actively encouraged. We meet regularly as a service to provide you with practice development sessions and reflection opportunities. We will offer you an excellent work-life balance, flexible and remote working arrangements. * Free parking at all of our office locations * Competitive working rewards * High quality supervision * Strong reflective practice framework If you want to discuss this post, please contact Anna Moulsdale, Team Manager Integrated Access and Referral Team 01606275063 / Anna.Moulsdale@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information. Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £13.45 per hour for all contracted hours. For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.