Senior Family Support Worker - 10138

As a Senior Family Support worker your key responsibilities will be around line management of Family Support Workers, practice development and quality assurance with a focus on improving and developing service delivery. This will include line management of staff and managing issues which arise on a day-to-day basis, identifying and delivering training. You will be supporting Family Support Workers to build supportive and empowering relationships with families and helping them to engage parents through creative and innovative strategies, in line with partner agencies and organisations. You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect.

As a Senior Family Support Worker within the Early Help team, you will be joining an experienced, supportive and child focused team, who are committed to delivering the best outcomes for children. We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions. Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must. The role of a Senior Family Support Worker requires you to work flexibly and may include working evenings and weekends. As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• a full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance, We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

The Families First Targeted Family Support Team deliver support to families presenting multiple and complex needs. In the Forest of Dean we have a team of individuals from all walks of life with a range of skills and experience that we use to deliver high level early help interventions.

We are currently recruiting for a full time Senior Family Support Worker within the Families First Early Help team on a fixed term basis until the end of March 2025. Reward and support For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
• between £34,834 - £38,223 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
Right child, right support, right time, every time We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce. Gloucestershire Children's Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that: 'Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire's children's services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families'. We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.