Family Key worker
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,366.00 to £35,235.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | SP1 3UZ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Wiltshire Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4951 |
Summary
Salary: £33,366 - £35,235
Hours per week: 37 hours
Interview date: To be confirmed following shortlisting
Support and Safeguarding Service - Empowering Families, Protecting Futures
Join our Support and Safeguarding Service as a Family Key Worker and be a pivotal support for our most vulnerable children in Wiltshire.
We're dedicated to redefining young futures by working collaboratively with our partners to offer high-quality, efficient, and effective support services. As a Family Key Worker, you'll form strong connections with children, young people, parents, and carers to understand the challenges they face. Through appropriate interventions and direct work, you'll enhance their resilience, strengthen family bonds, and reduce the need for specialised services.
Managing your own caseload, you'll guide cases from assessment to planning and provide and support interventions, coordinating a multi-agency response, in addition you will provide targeted work to support Social Work Colleagues who are working at both CP and CIN.
To excel in this role, you should have an NVQ Level 4 or equivalent qualification/experience, a deep understanding of child protection policies, and a commitment to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Proven experience working with vulnerable children, strong knowledge of child development, and a drive to improve outcomes for children and families are essential.
Hours per week: 37 hours
Interview date: To be confirmed following shortlisting
Support and Safeguarding Service - Empowering Families, Protecting Futures
Join our Support and Safeguarding Service as a Family Key Worker and be a pivotal support for our most vulnerable children in Wiltshire.
We're dedicated to redefining young futures by working collaboratively with our partners to offer high-quality, efficient, and effective support services. As a Family Key Worker, you'll form strong connections with children, young people, parents, and carers to understand the challenges they face. Through appropriate interventions and direct work, you'll enhance their resilience, strengthen family bonds, and reduce the need for specialised services.
Managing your own caseload, you'll guide cases from assessment to planning and provide and support interventions, coordinating a multi-agency response, in addition you will provide targeted work to support Social Work Colleagues who are working at both CP and CIN.
To excel in this role, you should have an NVQ Level 4 or equivalent qualification/experience, a deep understanding of child protection policies, and a commitment to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Proven experience working with vulnerable children, strong knowledge of child development, and a drive to improve outcomes for children and families are essential.
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