Family Support Worker

We are looking to recruit Family Support Workers for our Children with Disabilities Team and Children's Transitions Team based at The Portal in Ellesmere Port.

The Children with Disabilities and Children's Transitions Team are based in Ellesmere Port and are co-located with wider children's social care, early help and education teams. The Children with Disabilities Team works with young people from birth up to age 16 years up until they are ready to transition to our Children's Transition Team that works with children aged 16-19 years. We work across the whole borough of Cheshire West and Chester so there will be a requirement to travel. The family support worker role is wide and varied and involves working directly with children and their families within their own homes and in the community. The provide evidence based interventions including parenting programmes and interventions to support young people with communication across all settings., Disability Confident
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We will provide you with a supportive and collaborative working environment in modern and bright offices, where you can be assured of excellent management support and supervision where your personal career development and progression is actively encouraged.

You'll get free parking at all our office locations.

You'll benefit from competitive working rewards and up to 16 days 'flexi time' per year as well as your annual leave of 26 days per year if you have less than 5 years continuous service and 31 days if you have over 5 years.

We offer competitive salaries.

Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children, who are at the heart of everything we do, by providing a consistent, high-quality service to children and families. You will benefit from excellent working relationships with our partners and the support from a stable leadership and management team. We are committed to a culture of shared learning and development in which you will have an active part to play in the continued progress of our services to children and families.

We have developed and embedded 'Our Way of Working' with our multi-agency partners to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to our work with families using Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice. We will support you in developing your knowledge and skills to enable you to work creatively in planning and decision-making with children and their families and our partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes and with a focus on prevention at every level.

As employers, we recognise that Cheshire West Council has a major role to play in improving the quality of life of its employees. We have a 'hybrid' working arrangement which allows us to be more flexible in how we provide services to children and families and an enhanced work/life balance to our workers. We are committed to agile flexible and mobile working and helping employees to maintain an effective balance between their work and home life by being more flexible and creative in the use of our time and maximising the use of technology, whilst at the same time ensuring we can come together as teams and with our support networks on a regular basis.

We have a strong and supportive political and senior leadership team with a wealth of experience and knowledge about children's outcomes across the borough of Cheshire West and Chester., Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12 per hour for all contracted hours.