Support Worker - Family Safeguarding Coalville
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE67 3EA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5846 |
Summary
Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Coalville Children and Family Centre, High Street, Coalville, LE67 3EA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £27.717-£30.066 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 Per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 12th August 2025
Interview Date(s): 21st August 2025
We have an exciting role for a support worker within the Coalville locality safeguarding team
About the Role
You will provide direct high quality integrated family support and childcare services to children and young people as part of a family support/safeguarding plan by working as part of an integrated team. You will be required to facilitate family time with children that are in care and ensure that accurate recordings of this is documented and can be used for court proceedings.
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 respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
- NVQ level 3 in childcare qualification(NNEB/NVQ3) or equivalent
- Previous experience of caring for children or young people in a personal, voluntary or statutory capacity or experience of working to protect and improve the life changes of children or young people
- Experience in a social care setting
- Basic Knowledge of child development
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- good verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate clearly with children, young people, families, colleagues and professionals.
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 or Dee Williamson - Team Manager
Tel: 0116 3050377 or 0116 305 0111
Email: Hayley.brooksby@leics.gov.uk or dee.williamson@leics.gov.uk
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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