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. The Intervention Hub delivers high quality services for local children and their families, ensuring the right support is offered at the right time. We are currently recruiting for a Family Intervention Worker to join a strong performing team who focus on achieving the best outcomes for the families, children and young people they work with. As a member of the team, you will be involved in providing high-quality family intervention to families with children and young people who are living in complex situations, at risk of harm and family breakdown and requiring the support of children’s social care. Using a solution focused approach and evidence-based interventions to support and empower families to develop and implement sustainable, long-term solutions to their difficulties and enable parents to provide safe and consistent care to their children. The Intervention Hub work in a trauma informed way using Cheshire West and Chester’s innovative multi- agency partnership model ‘Our Way of Working’. You will have access to range of benefits including: -Competitive salary -Annual leave – you will receive 26 days annual leave per annum rising to 31 days after five years continuous Local Government Service. -Grow your own culture – we have a career progression structure to support your professional development. -Working rewards – we have a variety of schemes available to employees which include; additional annual leave, care and cycle purchase scheme, home and electronics purchase scheme in addition to discounts at a wide range of high street and online retailers. -Pension scheme – our Local Government Pension Scheme is a career average pension scheme with employee contributions of between 5.5% and 8.5% and the employer contribution currently of 23.8%. the scheme includes ill health and death in service benefits after two years membership. -Employee assistance programme – 24 hours, seven day a week lifestyle support for when you or your family need a listening ear from a qualified advisor on a wide range of personal or work issues. The role requires you to hold a Level 3 Qualification Child Care or equivalent level of experience in a relevant discipline, for example, health and social care, housing, employment etc. Knowledge of child development and previous experience of working with children, young people and families, and be able to work across the Cheshire West and Chester Borough. As a practitioner you will receive regular supervision by an experienced Senior Practice Lead to ensure the assessed needs of the child are being met and outcomes are improved. Excellent training opportunities will be provided to support you in undertaking the role. If you have the passion, drive and resilience for direct front line family focused work and are flexible in your approach in working with children and families, we want to hear from you! For an informal discussion about the post please contact Interim Practice Manager Fiona Vaughan Fiona.vaughan@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk or Senior Practice Lead Charlie Price: charles.price@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. 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 £12.60 per hour for all contracted hours. For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.