Family Worker (Link Role) - 12 month FTC
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £31,931.00 i £36,423.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | + 26 Days Leave & Local Gov Pension |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, CO15 3AY |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Essex County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | req20086_1752225225 |
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Family Worker (Link Role)
Fixed Term, Full Time
£31,931 to £36,423 per annum
Location: Clacton on Sea
Closing Date: Thursday 24th of July at 11.59pm
Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract / Secondment opportunity for a period of 12 months.
Interview Date: 8th August 2025
Here in Essex, we continue to raise the bar about practice and our investment in our workforce is second to none. It's an exciting time to join us having received our 2nd Outstanding Ofsted rating in a row.
The Opportunity
Family Solutions is a level 3 service in Essex County Council Children and Families. The Service works with families experiencing multiple and complex challenges and aims to empower families to make sustainable changes, improve outcomes, and reduce the need for statutory intervention. Using a whole-family approach, Family Solutions practitioners build strong, trusting relationships to help families identify their own goals and access the right support at the right time.
As a Family Worker (Link Role), you are the key point of contact for families, providing support and intervention and working with partners to co-ordinate support from other agencies. You will work intensively with families including in the community, using a strengths-based approach to help them overcome barriers and achieve positive outcomes for families.
The role requires you to be mobile throughout the area, working usually with families in the Tendring district with an office base in Clacton. The role also requires some flexibility working out of normal office hours when required to best meet the needs of the family.
Accountabilities
- You will be responsible for carrying out holistic assessments with families to co-create family plans that reflect their strengths, needs, and aspirations. These plans will be outcome-focused and informed by the voices of the family, young people and children.
- You will work collaboratively with families and partner agencies to agree on clear goals and actions including delivering interventions that support sustainable, positive change.
- You'll exercise sound judgment in managing risk, recognising when concerns need to be escalated.
- You will chair Family Meetings and Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings, navigating differing perspectives to facilitate constructive dialogue and agree on achievable solutions.
- You will provide practical and emotional support to families in their homes or community settings, delivering direct work and interventions including to enable children and families to develop their skills to resolve issues. Also providing information and supporting families to access support from other services. as part of an agreed support plan. Your work will focus on helping families achieve meaningful and sustainable outcomes, tailored to their individual goals.
- Act as a source of advice, guidance, and support to colleagues in relation to the thematic role held, in order to support case discussions, mentor and signpost colleagues.
- Actively engage in regular supervision to reflect on practice, review progress, and ensure effective, outcome-focused support for families.
- Working collaboratively with staff and partners to ensure effective risk management in line with the Effective Support and Guidance document and SET child protection procedures.
- Actively engage in annual appraisals where specific individual objectives are defined in line with the performance management framework.
What you will need:
- Educated to degree level preferred but minimum NVQ level 4 or equivalent by experience in relevant thematic specialism i.e., Domestic Abuse, Substance Misuse, Education, Mental Health, and Parenting.
- Significant practical experience of working with families with multiple and complex needs.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to evidence-based practice
- Knowledge of solution focussed approach and providing practical advice and support to families to enable them to achieve positive and sustainable outcomes.
- 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.
- 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.