Senior Family Help Worker (Early Help) Future 4 Me

As a Senior Family Help Worker, you will play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality, targeted support to children and their families. You will provide day to day leadership, advice, and guidance to a team of Family Help Workers, a Youth Offending Worker and an Education Mentor ensuring effective and consistent practice across the service.

You will be responsible for developing, mentoring, and supervising staff, supporting them to deliver evidence-based interventions that improve outcomes for children and families. This includes overseeing and guiding work with complex cases, including the supervision and management of Youth Justice cases, ensuring appropriate interventions, risk management, and multi-agency coordination.

Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies, you will help to strengthen community-based support, promote safeguarding, and drive best practice across the locality. You will also support the implementation of service developments and contribute to continuous improvement within the team.

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 children 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 children 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 child.

Designed in a Hub and Spoke Model, the Future4Me Team comprises of the existing Youth Offending Service 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 children 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 Futures and the Restorative Justice team.

A recognised professional qualification in Youth Work (JNC recognised) or Social Work, or
A Diploma in Careers Guidance or Level 4 Qualification in Guidance, or
A Level 4 Diploma (or equivalent) in a relevant field related to working with children and families
Experience

A minimum of two years' post-qualification experience working with children and families
Demonstrable experience of delivering targeted interventions and supporting complex needs
Skills and Attributes

The ability to build and sustain positive, professional relationships with children and their families
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse communities
A commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based practice, Disability Confident
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