Support & Assessment Worker - Family Safeguarding
| Posting date: | 03 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE67 3EA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4994 |
Summary
Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Coalville Safeguarding, Coalville Social Services LE67 3EA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £31,074 - £33,294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 20th April 2025
Interview Date(s): 29th April 2025
About the Role
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference?
Can you offer good communication skills and capacity in supporting children and families in challenging circumstances?
Do you enjoy supporting parents to help their children grow and thrive? Yes? come and work in our Family safeguarding team.
If so, this role might be for you. We are looking for a support and assessment worker based at out Wigston location to cover a sickness post on a fixed term /secondment basis
The role is to work as part of an integrated team to provide a range of home/centre-based family support interventions that contribute to achieving an improvement in outcomes for children, young people, and families.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Level 3 childcare qualification (NNEB/NVQ3) or equivalent
- Experience of working with parents and children
- Understanding of social and environmental factors that have an effect on vulnerable, children, young people and families.
- Organisational and planning skills
- Ability to communicate clearly with children, young people, parents, colleagues and other professionals
- Ability to work with a range of professionals and engage in multidisciplinary work
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Hayley Brooksby - Team Manager
Email: Hayley.brooksby@leics.gov.uk
Phone : 0116 3050377
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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