Every day you’ll be supporting children and their families to make a positive change, making a real difference for vulnerable local families and their children.
You will give children a voice, working with them to express their wishes, thoughts and feelings delivering support, with a focus on what will make the biggest difference to families and children.
What will you be doing?
- You will be supervising contact during family time and challenging parents, ensuring the safety of the child.
- Working under direction of Social Workers, you will contribute to and review plans and services to improve intervention ideas.
- You’ll refer issues if needed in accordance with Safeguarding procedures to protect vulnerable people. This will require you to maintain confidential reports to profession and Council guidelines.
- You’ll be communicating with children and their parents completing direct work with them. This could include family support and performing defined pieces of work for parents and children under the direction of qualified social worker.
- Daily you’ll be liaising and working social workers and external contacts such as education services and health agencies ensuring communication is effective.
- You should be educated to GCSE level or equivalent with considerable experience of working in a children and families service, which should include an assessment function, service provision and experience of preparing written records and reports.
- You should have an awareness and experience of dynamic risk assessment whilst preparing for and performing a task, and ability to take appropriate action as a result of risks identified.
- You should also have experience and/or knowledge of child protection issues
- You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice; processes and procedures; support mechanisms and specialist equipment.
Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos. We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the children and young people they work with.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
For more information, please contact Francesca Hepden Services Manager on 01454 864266 or email [email protected].
Face to Face Interviews to be held on Friday 3rd March 2023.