Social Worker Family Worker (Link Role), West Essex

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Social Worker Family Worker (Link Role), West Essex

Fixed Term, Fll Time

£38,487 to £51,834 per annm

Location: Harlow

Working Style: Commnity-based worker

Closing Date: 18th October 6

Pleasenote that visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Applicants mst havea crrent, nrestricted right to work in the K.

We crrently have Fixed Term/Secondment Opportnities (1 months)

We're recriting for Social Workers (Link Family Workers) to join or high-performing Family Soltions team based in West Essex.

This is a fantastic opportnity to work within a service described by Ofsted as "exceptional", delivering early help to families facing mltiple and complex challenges.

Family Soltions is part of Essex's Children & Families service, working holistically with disadvantaged families to help them make meaningfl and lasting changes. Yo'll be part of a spportive, mlti-disciplinary team that vales collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.

If yo wold like an informal chat and find ot more abot the role before applying please contact :

Simon Morris - Team Manager Family Soltions 33 13834

Jill Holland - Team Manager Family Soltions 33 139934

To read more abot or bsiness area, please visit: Children & Families

Please take a look at or 'No Magic' Children & Families video

The Opportnity

As a Social Worker (Family Worker), yor role will be varied, impactfl, and deeply rewarding and yo will:

Act as a sorce of advice and spport for colleages, inclding joint visits and joint working on complex cases for example those which wold benefit from social worker expertise sch as concerns arond neglect.

Spport the team to bild positive and constrctive working relationships with colleages in stattory children's services.

Manage yor own caseload and assess safegarding risks.

Work in partnership with the team manager and practice spervisor to review referrals and spport threshold decisions as reqired by the team.

Bild strong, trsting relationships with families to promote positive change.

Provide practical and specialist advice,

Facilitate complex family meetings and coordinating additional spport services.

Offer emotional and practical spport in homes and commnity settings.

Work closely with yor manager or senior social worker throgh reglar spervision.

An opportnity to spport the frther integration or Family Soltions and Children Social Care as part of the Family First Partnership Programme.

Accontabilities

Responsible for spporting manager and practice spervisor to ndertake screenings of new contacts, nderstanding threshold.

Responsible for determining the direction and actions reqired in order to progress cases forward on a day-to-day basis; recognising when key decisions regarding risks/concerns need to be referred to the Team Manager or Practice Spervisor.

Responsible for acting as a sorce of advice, gidance and spport to colleages in relation to complex cases which wold benefit from social work expertise, mentoring and giding alternatively qalified colleages in best practice.

Responsible for ndertaking holistic assessments of family needs to help create intervention plans and identify how otcomes can be achieved that flly reflect the family and yong person's views and aspirations, delivering interventions, inclding grop work programs, to spport families to make change.

Responsible for facilitating complex family meetings, managing the potentially competing views of families and professionals, in order to find achievable soltions.

Responsible for ndertaking individal and grop programmes of work to enable children and families to develop their skills to resolve isses and problems themselves; providing information and accompanying families to help access other local services.

Responsible for providing specific practical, personal and emotional spport to families in their homes or other settings as part of an agreed plan in order to achieve agreed and sstainable family otcomes.

Responsible for actively participating in reglar spervision in order to review work and ensre effective interventions for families.

Responsible for ensring that the principles of effective practice are flly embedded in service delivery; working collaboratively with staff and partners to ensre effective risk management in line with the thresholds of the Effective Spport and Gidance docment to ensre that the Family Soltions team nderstands and follows the SET child protection procedres.

Specific individal and shared targets and objectives are defined annally within the performance management framework.

The Experience Yo Will Bring

Qalified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England, and post-ASYE.

Recent experience in a frontline children's services, experience of completing assessment and managing CIN and or CP Cases.

At least two years' experience post qalifying

Hold of willing to work towards Practice Edcator Qalification

A strong commitment to phold the standards and vales of the social work profession.

Evidence of contining professional development with good knowledge in relevant professional area and commitment to the principles of evidence-based practice.

Significant practical experience of working with families with mltiple and complex needs.

Effective commnication skills, good problem solving and assessment skills with a demonstrable track record of bilding and sstaining positive professional relationships with individals and families with mltiple and complex needs.

Experience of applying a soltion focsed approach and providing practical advice and spport to families to enable them to achieve positive and sstainable otcomes.

Ability to work in partnership with others to maximise otcomes for families in line with the Family Soltions operating principles.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team and to se spervision appropriately.

The role reqires yo to be mobile throghot a wider operational area inclding travelling arond the conty of Essex and beyond, transporting service sers and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility reqirements of the role throgh other means is essential.

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic K local athorities, Essex offers a stimlating pblic service environment. Covering over 1,4 sqare miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we're committed to transformational change and delivering better qality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for prodctivity, we ensre everyone matters in Everyone's Essex . With flexible working options and a focs on innovation, whether yo are looking to develop yor career or contribte to the local commnity, Essex is the ideal place for yo.

In Febrary 5 , Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government's devoltion priority programme, which will see local athorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined Conty Athority by May 6. Yo can read more abot devoltion and local government reorganisation (LGR ) on or careers site.

Essex Conty Concil is prod to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply nder or Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimm reqirements of the job. Please speak to or Recriters if yo reqire any reasonable adjstments dring the process. We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimm reqirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once yo've secred yor role within Essex Conty Concil yo will receive many great employee benefits, inclding spport for npaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex Conty Concil, we vale integrity and ethical behavior. We kindly ask that yo embrace or code of condct and the Nolan principles , inclding throghot the recritment process. Yor commitment to these standards helps s maintain a positive and respectfl workplace for everyone.

As part of employment with Essex Conty Concil (ECC) shold yor role reqire a DBS check yo will be reqired to register with the DBS pdate service. The DBS pdate service ensres all registered DBS certificates are kept p to date and allows athorised parties to view the stats of yor certificate. This is an annal sbscription, and yo will be responsible for ensring this is maintained. For frther information on the DBS pdate service please go to https://www.gov.k/dbs-pdate-service

Essex Conty Concil is committed to safegarding and promoting the welfare of children and vlnerable adlts and expects all employees and volnteers to share this commitment.

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If yo have qeries on this role or reqire anything frther, please email [email protected]

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