Senior Family Support Worker (Community Support)
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Job Description
| Salary £33,945-£38,223 Per annum | Fixed Term, Full Time, Until 01-Jun-2025, 37 hours per week | Children & Family Wellbeing Service - Burnley | Pay Award Pending
International Sponsorship - this role is not open to international sponsorship
Reporting to the Team Manager, post holders will work in partnership with other Lead Practitioners in their team to provide thematically focussed guidance and management support to frontline delivery staff across the relevant team footprint, through both professional experience and theoretical knowledge.
The post holder will undertake direct service delivery (individual caseload, direct work/group based programme delivery) within a focussed area of the early help service offer, but will work cooperatively and across delivery themes to ensure that service users receive a seamless service. They will also have responsibilities for delivery planning and providing frontline supervision to lower graded delivery staff to enable them to deliver early help services meeting well defined, short term deliverables.
The post holder will be able to use judgment to deal with daily unforeseen problems with limited guidance, within established procedures, and making practical operational decisions within closely defined policies and procedural guidance.
There are three principle themes of the early help service offer Intensive Support, Neighbourhood Support or Community Support, this position for Senior Family Support Worker will be aligned to Community Support;
• Community Support; Principle focus will be frontline delivery to agreed 'Team around the School' arrangements across the 30 cross phase school clusters. They will provide dedicated practical support and challenge to school partners and act as a key point of contact for the service response in relation to specific cases or identified family needs within schools in their cluster.
They will work with all Early Help partners in their cluster area to utilise existing resources in a more integrated way to secure better outcomes for families. Key objectives will be helping partners to coordinate their existing services to work together more effectively and find solutions to barriers they may face which prevent them from offering earlier interventions.
Post holders will also provide support and supervision for a small number of Family Support Workers (Community) and may assist with group based supervision of neighbourhood delivery staff where numbers/ratios require this.
Supporting the Team Managers in the delivery and continuous improvement of early help services for children, young people, and families in line with the vision for Children and Families in Lancashire developed by the Children and Families Partnership Board which states; Children, young people and their families are safe, healthy and achieve their full potential.
To deliver this vision we have agreed some key outcomes:
1. Vulnerable children and young people are safe from harm and build resilience.
2. Children and young people achieve their full potential in education, learning and future employment.
3. Children and young people enjoy heathy lifestyles and know how to help others.
4. Children, young people and families have a voice in shaping the support they receive.
5. Children and young people live in Lancashire where they can enjoy a good quality of life, be happy and want to stay.
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Sue Hopkinson - Team Manager - susan.hopkinson@lancashire.gov.uk
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
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