Senior Family Support Worker (Intensive Support) | Early Help | Fylde & Wyre

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| Salary £35,235 - £39,513 Per Annum | Permanent, Full Time 37 Hours Per Week | Fylde & Wyre |

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Senior Family Support Worker | Intensive Support

The Children and Family Wellbeing Service has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Family Support Worker.

Children and Family Wellbeing Service (CFW) is part of Lancashire County Council's Education and Children's Services. It offers early help and support to children, young people aged 0-19yrs+ (25yrs for young people with special educational needs and disabilities) and their families across Lancashire.

The service is committed to minimising the impact of any disadvantage for Lancashire children by working with them, their families, and communities as early as possible, enabling them to get the right support, in the right way, at the right time. The service responds as early as possible when a child, young person, or family needs support and this helps to prevent concerns escalating. By working together with the child and family we can provide an enhanced level of practical support to address needs directly. Sometimes our workers meet with individuals or families on a one-to-one basis, and sometimes they bring children, young people, and families together in groups.

We focus on strengths and protective factors and build a positive relationship with children and family members where their voice is heard, and they feel listened to. Our core aim is to work better together with our multi-agency early help partners across all areas in Lancashire, to ensure that Children, young people, and their families are safe, healthy and achieve their full potential. Early Help is fundamental to achieving this vision.

The Senior Family Support Worker will be aligned to Intensive Support. Their principle focus will be the delivery of 'Family Intensive Support' (FIS) taking a whole family based casework approach to respond to complex needs. Post holders will carry a small (complex) caseload of families, alongside providing support and caseload supervision for a nominated group of 'Family Support Workers (FIS) They will be the principle line of management oversight, practice guidance and support for Family Partners delivering intensive support, assisting with smart action planning and actively tracking team caseload progress against agreed quality assurance measures and processes.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

Suggested Interview dates will be 17th December.

For further information please contact:

Paula Seville Team manager (Family Intensive Support), Fylde & Wyre

paula.seville@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.

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