Social Worker - Family Worker (Link Role), Chelmsford Fixed Term, Full Time £37,185 to £50,081 Per Annum Location: Chelmsford Working Style: Community-based worker Closing Date: 29th May 2025 Interview Date: Potentially 12th & 13th June 2025 This is a 12 months Fixed Term Opportunity Join Our Team and Make a Difference! Are you ready for a rewarding and impactful career? An exciting secondment/fixed term opportunity has opened up in the highly successful Mid Essex team of Family Solutions, an Early Help service dedicated to empowering disadvantaged families facing multiple complex challenges. If you're a registered social worker with a passion for creating positive change, we want to hear from you. The Role: As a Social Worker (Link Role) at Family Solutions, your work will be complex, sometimes challenging, but always incredibly rewarding. Key aspects of your role include: Building strong, meaningful relationships with families and partner agencies. Inspiring positive change within families. Providing practical and specialised advice while coordinating additional support services. Managing your caseload independently. Ensuring the safety of children and young people by managing safeguarding risks. Taking the lead on a specific area of professional practice within the team, supporting team members and collaborating with professionals beyond Family Solutions. Support the development of the team, for example providing peer group supervision. Our team is highly supportive, and you'll receive supervision from experienced managers and Practice Supervisors to help you excel in your role. Job Description: · You'll be responsible for guiding and advancing cases day by day, recognising when key decisions need to be escalated to higher authorities. · Acting as a source of advice and support to your colleagues in your thematic role, mentoring and guiding them. · Conducting holistic shared family assessments to create intervention plans that reflect the family's views and aspirations, and delivering interventions, including group programs, 1:1 work and signposting, to support families in making positive changes. · Facilitating complex family meetings and managing varying perspectives to find practical solutions. · Running individual and group programs to help families develop their skills in problem-solving and issue resolution. · Providing practical, personal, and emotional support to families in their homes or other settings, aligning with agreed-upon plans to achieve sustainable family outcomes. · Actively participating in regular supervision to review your work and ensure effective interventions for families. · Ensuring that the principles of effective practice are at the core of our service delivery, working closely with staff and partners to ensure effective risk management in line with our guidelines. Skills, Knowledge, and Experience: To excel in this role, you should possess: A social worker qualification and registration with Social Work England. A commitment to continuing professional development and evidence-based practice. Practical experience in working with families facing multiple and complex challenges. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and assessment skills, with a track record of building positive relationships. Experience in applying a solution-focused and strengths-based approach and offering practical advice and support to families. The ability to work in partnership with others to maximise outcomes for families. Independence, teamwork skills, and the ability to use supervision effectively. Join us at Family Solutions, where you'll have the chance to be a positive force in the lives of disadvantaged families and create lasting change. Your commitment and skills can make a real impact. Apply today and be part of a dynamic, supportive team in Mid Essex! To read more about our business area, please visit: Children & Families Please take a look at our 'No Magic' Children & Families video Why Essex? As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we're committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you. In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government's devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. 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Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone. The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential. As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. 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