Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Venture House Family Hub Asfordby Rd, Melton Mowbray LE13 0HN
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £31,074- £33,294 per annum (pro rata for part time )
Working Hours:1 x 37 per week & 1 x 30 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19th May 2025
Interview Date(s): 4th/5th June
About the Role
Targeted Family Help Melton and Harborough is a service that offers timely support to families in the community and with the home offering practical help, building on strengths and local community support to improve daily life, positively impacting upon outcomes for children and young people. The team work out of our Family Hubs linking closely with the partners that use them providing a link between them and the families within our community.
We are looking for passionate, creative, empathetic people to be part of this team. To provide a service that allows for early identification of and intervention for emerging worries, including but not limited to, supporting parents in the home with challenging behaviours, work with young people and their families struggling with emotional wellbeing and/or at risk of exclusions, supporting families with SEND needs, child development concerns and issues with home and money. Working with the children, young people and families to support, offering advice and strategies that prevents escalation and allowing development of new skills and independence from services.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement .
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
* Level 3 qualification in a relevant subject, e.g. social care, health or childcare, ORsubstantial experience in providing direct support to families that clearly demonstrates the experience, skills, competencies and knowledge needed to support young people and families.
* Experience in delivering time-limited, focussed, direct work within the home environment to support families, building on a brief assessment of need to provide an evidence-based and planned programme of support. Delivering group work and targeted clinics to support a specific locality need.
* Experience of working in a multi-agency environment
* Experience of working with families within a safeguarding environment
* Knowledge of child development and the impact trauma can have on early years development, knowledge of SEND and an awareness of issues which may have an impact on the lives of families such as domestic violence and abuse, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, poverty
* An ability to engage with children, young people and families on a one - to - one sessions or within a group and family environment. To develop their own strategies and support networks within their family, friends and community to promote sustainable and supportive change
* An ability to be creative and family led in interventions that are tailored to meet the needs of the children, young people and families you will be working with
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to,equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values 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 Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion,please contact:
Lesley - Anne Rothnie, Team and Partnership Manager - Harborough and Melton
Email: lesley-anne.rothnie@leics.gov.uk
Tel: 0116 305 0658
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply 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.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support .
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