Family Help Worker

Lincolnshire County Council are looking to recruit Family Help Workers (previously known as Early Help Workers) to joint the Future4Me Teams. We currently have two positions available 1 Full Time Position in South Kesteven and 1 Part Time (22.5 hours) North Kesteven.

Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration law, we are unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this role as it does not meet RQF Level 6 requirements.

About the Team

Future4Me launched Countywide in February 2019 and brought together the Council's core offer to adolescents by building on the Youth Offending Team, Youth Hub and Family Help. Situated within Children's Services, F4Me has re-designed the approach to working with young people who are at risk of entering care in late adolescence; engaged in criminal activity or at risk of exploitation/harm by individuals outside of their family. The Future4Me Team works with young people that fit the profile of need around these behaviours and circumstances as well as offering support and guidance to other professionals who have a key relationship with the young person.

Designed in a Hub and Spoke Model, the Future4Me Team comprises of the existing Youth Offending Service- including social workers and elements of the Youth Hub, together with Family Help Workers in locality teams. Working within a trauma recovery approach and addressing the causes of the presenting behaviour and vulnerabilities, through multi-disciplinary co-operation, the local authority aims to provide safe spaces for our children and protect them from extra familiar harm.

The needs of young people within the adolescent risk cohort are complex and wide ranging and are best managed through multi-agency/multi-disciplinary co-operation. These needs cannot be effectively addressed within a single agency approach and work best if supported by strong partnership and governance with all partners contributing fully. The service also provides additional resources around psychology and speech and language to ensure we address the root causes of behaviour to promote long lasting change.

This approach also provides for key risk areas, including the Joint Diversionary Panels, Child Exploitation and Missing and Youth Housing as well as an extensive community engagement offer through Youth and Community Development, Positive Future and the Restorative Justice team.

We currently have a full time, permanent, vacancy in our team covering the South Kesteven area and a part time position covering North Kesteven.

This represents an exciting opportunity to join a positive and high performing service committed to effectively managing young people subject to Out of Court Disposals as well as through our Family Help work.

What you'll be doing - Family Help Worker

Family Help Workers act as key workers for families with a range of needs, undertaking assessments and delivering and co-ordinating interventions directly to children and their families. As a part of the Future4Me team you will work on a one-to-one basis, delivering evidence-based interventions in a trauma sensitive way.

Family Help Workers also contribute to holistic family work for children subject to Child Protection and Child in Need Plans and those looked after by the local authority.

You will be required to travel and work in a timely and flexible manner to undertake the duties of the role and there is some element of evening and weekend work where cases require it.

A NVQ LEVEL 3 or equivalent qualification
Ability to undertake family assessments, develop plans and deliver needs lead packages of support.
Ability to act as a Lead Professional for a family where appropriate with responsibility for the day to day implementation and coordination of the family plan.
The ability to demonstrate the ability to effectively engage with families, build relationships which will enable accurate assessments and plans to be developed which will improve outcomes for children.
Knowledge/ understanding of child development, adolescent risk-taking behaviour and trauma-informed approaches.
To be a key team player and work closely with staff members and specialist workers from other agencies, local authorities and organisations., We understand that you may have questions or simply want to speak to one of the team to find out more about working here. Simply contact Laura Swift on laura.swift@lincolnshire.gov.uk or Karen Robinson on karen.robinson@lincolnshire.gov.uk, Disability Confident
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