Intervention Worker – Early Help & Family Services

Job Description

Intervention Worker – Early Help & Family Services

Are you a passionate Intervention Worker looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are currently recruiting for an Intervention Worker to work in Early Help & Family Service based in Tameside.

Pay Rates: £12.60 – £15.90 Umbrella Rate

Information the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Family Help Lead Practitioner, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.

This is contract is initially for 3 months, 37.5 hrs a week and Essential car driver

The successful candidate will be expected to support the Team Manager with the efficient and effective delivery of the STARS Model within the borough. Using reflective practice and compassion focused therapy, you will identify needs and coordinate intensive support for pregnant women and their partners at the earliest opportunity. You will be working on a plan with midwifery, health and adults to prevent the risks of repeated removals of children and effect real change. This role will be case managing referred women (and partners) and supporting them to effect changes and engage with the pre-birth assessment.

What you will be doing:

• Help drive a cultural change in public services for families.
• Management of a caseload of children and families using engagement, assessment and planning skills to understand need and ascertain the right level of support required with the family.
• To employ evidence-based approaches such as Signs of Safety to support children and families in a range of environments (e.g. home, school, community.)
• To carry out detailed and comprehensive Early Help Assessments and multi-agency plans created with the child and family that lead to positive, long terms sustainable change.
• To coordinate and chair Team around the Family Meetings and attend other relevant forums that support children and families. This includes being a proactive, ‘can-do’ professional that holds the child and family needs at the heart of practice.
• To create strong links with adult services and social workers around pre-birth assessments and continuation of support.
• To make use of IT, chronology, genogram and recording keeping skills, ensuring that records for children and families are thorough, accurate and stored safely, proportionately and legally and in line with practice standards.
• To employ effective skills in case coordination to ensure that vulnerable children and families have their needs met and that non-delivery by agencies is challenged and/or escalated to senior colleagues appropriately.  
• To engage in effective supervision through appropriate preparation and reflective skills.
• To create and maintain strong multi agency partnerships that promotes effective joint working and appropriate step up and step-down arrangements for families.
• Undertake professional development and training to continually develop practice and embed reflective skills on a daily basis.
• Provide specific intervention support for children and families who have statutory social work involvement in conjunction with the allocated social worker. 
• Ensure an up-to-date awareness of and compliance with statutory requirements, policies and procedures, equality and diversity and other regulations and procedures in order to ensure statutory requirements are met.

Essential Requirements:

• The post holder will be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the families.  This will involve work outside of normal office hours and require weekend working. 
• The post holder will need to work 36 hours per week between the hours of 8am and 8pm                 
• over a seven-day working week on a rota basis.
• A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an Enhanced level is required.
• (Exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974.  All ‘spent’ convictions to be declared.)
• Driving licence and access to a car for business use is preferred.

What we offer:

• 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area
• 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme
• Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy in further detail or any other vacancies, please contact out Team on 0208 514 9137 or email careteam@4recruitmentservices.com.