Social Worker – Family Worker (Link Role)

Social Worker – Family Worker (Link Role)

Fixed Term, Full Time

£36,101 to £48,622 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or
secondment opportunity for up to 9 months. If applying as an internal
secondment please seek line manager approval before applying.

Family Solutions is an Early Help service in Essex working holistically
with disadvantage families, with multiple difficulties to enable them to
make significant changes and improvements to their lives. Family Solutions
works under the umbrella of children’s social care.

This is a unique opportunity for qualified Social Worker to gain an
understanding of Level 3 complex intensive working completed by Family
Solutions. Candidate will be able to complete training and peer supervision
sessions for alternatively qualified staff.

The work of a Social Worker (Link Family Worker) is complex, sometimes
challenging, but always varied and rewarding. Key aspects of the work
include:

• Working closely with families to build strong relationships with
  all family members.
• Promoting positive change with families.
• Provide both practical and specialist advice as well acting as a
  lead coordinator for additional support services where appropriate.
• Managing your own caseload
  
• 
  Managing safeguarding risks to children
• Taking the lead on an area of professional practice for the team
  through supporting team members, and liaising with professionals outside of
  Family Solutions

The team is extremely supportive and the post holder will be supervised by
an experienced manager or senior social worker. The post holder will be
expected to operate flexibly, working out of normal office hours when
required to best meet the needs of the family.

Job Description:

• Responsible for determining the direction and actions required in
  order to progress cases forward on a day to day basis; recognising when key
  decisions regarding risks/concerns need to be referred to the Team Manager
  or Practice Supervisor.
  
• Responsible for acting as a source of advice, guidance and support
  to colleagues in relation to the thematic role held in order to support
  case discussions and mentor and guide colleagues.
  
• Responsible for undertaking holistic assessments of family needs
  to help create intervention plans and identify how outcomes can be achieved
  that fully reflect the family and young person’s views and aspirations;
  delivering interventions, including group work programs, to support
  family’s to make change.
  
• Responsible for facilitating complex family meetings, managing the
  potentially competing views of families and professionals, in order to find
  achievable solutions.
  
• Responsible for undertaking individual and group programmes of
  work to enable children and families to develop their skills to resolve
  issues and problems themselves; providing information and accompanying
  families to help access other local services.
  
• Responsible for providing specific practical, personal and
  emotional support to families in their homes or other settings as part of
  an agreed plan in order to achieve agreed and sustainable family outcomes.
  
• Responsible for actively participating in regular supervision in
  order to review work and ensure effective interventions for families.
  
• Responsible for ensuring that the principles of effective practice
  are fully embedded in service delivery; working collaboratively with staff
  and partners to ensure effective risk management in line with the
  thresholds of the Effective Support and Guidance document to ensure that
  the Family Solutions team understands and follows the SET child protection
  procedures.
  
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined
  annually within the performance management framework.

About You

• Social worker qualification, registered with Social Work England
  and post ASYE
  
• Evidence of continuing professional development with good
  knowledge in relevant professional area and commitment to the principles of
  evidence based practice.
  
• Significant practical experience of working with families with
  multiple and complex needs.
  
• Effective communication skills, good problem solving and
  assessment skills with a demonstrable track record of building and
  sustaining positive professional relationships with individuals and
  families with multiple and complex needs.
  
• Experience of applying a solution focused approach and providing
  practical advice and support to families to enable them to achieve positive
  and sustainable outcomes.
  
• Ability to work in partnership with others to maximise outcomes
  for families in line with the Family Solutions operating principles.
  
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and to use
  supervision appropriately.
  

To read more about us please visit:

Children & Families

Please take a look at our ‘No Magic’ Children & Families video

here

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.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re
committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under
our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job.
Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments
during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet
the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to
hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.

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. For further information on the
DBS update service please go to

https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and
volunteers to share this commitment.

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