Family Intervention Worker
Children's Services


Early Years, Early Help and Neighborhoods
Children’s Services
Fairfield Children’s Centre
Fairfield Road, Manchester, M43 6AF

Family Intervention Worker
Full Time
Permanent
Grade F point 17 £24,491.00 to point 22 £27,041.00

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit a number of experienced, enthusiastic, motivated family intervention workers, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.

As part of the team, you will work flexible across 7 days, on a rota basis working between the hours of 8am to 8pm daily. You will also be required to link closely with the out of hours services.

The role is to coordinate services and deliver evidence-based interventions to families experiencing multiple and complex issues throughout the continuum of need. The successful candidate will take a whole family approach and work across services to effect real change for families. The successful candidates will be expected to take a lead or key role in working with families, working in partnership to challenge and negotiate traditional organizational boundaries for ensure the best outcomes are achieved for children and young people.

Candidates must have excellent communication skills which will enable them, to undertake effective family engagement which builds on a family’s strength and coping strategies, incorporating a strong degree of challenge for families to change, supporting and enabling them to resolve multiple and complex difficulties leading to sustainable change.

The Early Help service has a strong ethos of working in a multiagency environment, developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with partner agencies to ensure services can affect positive and lasting change with families.

A strong knowledge and experience of assess, plan, do, and review to ensure quality provision is provided to families while using the Signs of Safety model to planning interventions as a part of a multi-agency approach. This will require you to undertake the lead professional role with some families’ whist supporting other agencies where they are lead professional.
If you believe, you meet the essential criteria for this role we would like to hear from you.

For informal discussion, please contact: Faye Edwards – faye.edwards@tameside.gov.uk

This post requires an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Reference No: DPT146
Closing Date: 2 November 2020 23.59

Job Description/ Person Specification.doc
Location
Fairfield Children's Centre
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Early Years, Early Help and Neighborhoods
Children’s Services
Fairfield Children’s Centre
Fairfield Road, Manchester, M43 6AF

Family Intervention Worker
Full Time
Permanent
Grade F point 17 £24,491.00 to point 22 £27,041.00

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit a number of experienced, enthusiastic, motivated family intervention workers, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.

As part of the team, you will work flexible across 7 days, on a rota basis working between the hours of 8am to 8pm daily. You will also be required to link closely with the out of hours services.

The role is to coordinate services and deliver evidence-based interventions to families experiencing multiple and complex issues throughout the continuum of need. The successful candidate will take a whole family approach and work across services to effect real change for families. The successful candidates will be expected to take a lead or key role in working with families, working in partnership to challenge and negotiate traditional organizational boundaries for ensure the best outcomes are achieved for children and young people.

Candidates must have excellent communication skills which will enable them, to undertake effective family engagement which builds on a family’s strength and coping strategies, incorporating a strong degree of challenge for families to change, supporting and enabling them to resolve multiple and complex difficulties leading to sustainable change.

The Early Help service has a strong ethos of working in a multiagency environment, developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with partner agencies to ensure services can affect positive and lasting change with families.

A strong knowledge and experience of assess, plan, do, and review to ensure quality provision is provided to families while using the Signs of Safety model to planning interventions as a part of a multi-agency approach. This will require you to undertake the lead professional role with some families’ whist supporting other agencies where they are lead professional.
If you believe, you meet the essential criteria for this role we would like to hear from you.

For informal discussion, please contact: Faye Edwards – faye.edwards@tameside.gov.uk

This post requires an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Reference No: DPT146
Closing Date: 2 November 2020 23.59

Job Description/ Person Specification.doc