Our client is looking for a dedicated and resilient Family Intervention Worker to join a high-performing team focused on achieving the best outcomes for children and families in Cheshire West And Chester. This role is unique in its "whole-family" approach, delivering packages of intervention through the Team Around the Family (TAF) process to families with complex and multiple needs.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Duty Response: Provide initial safety planning and support, responding both virtually and in person to emerging risks.
- Holistic Assessment: Conduct comprehensive assessments of children (0–19) and families, identifying both risk and protective factors through a systemic lens.
- Evidence-Based Intervention: Deliver strength-based, trauma-informed interventions that align with the 'Our Way of Working' practice framework.
- Plan Coordination: Develop and review multi-agency plans that are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) and include safe contingency planning.
- Advocacy & Partnership: Act as an advocate for families to reduce barriers to support services, collaborating with statutory, voluntary, and community organisations.
- Meeting Leadership: Chair multi-agency meetings, ensuring inclusive participation and accurate documentation of timely decision-making.
- Safeguarding Support: Contribute to Child Protection processes and, where appropriate, complete court-related work.
- Documentation: Maintain high-quality, analytical, and child-focused records on the Integrated Children’s System (ICS).
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Early Intervention Expertise: A strong understanding of the Families First Partnership framework and early intervention principles.
- Relationship Skills: Proven ability to build strong, professional relationships with families and a wide range of partner agencies.
- Analytical Writing: Skills to create written reports for various settings that are analytical, accessible, and keep the child’s lived experience at the heart.
- Resilience: The ability to thrive in a high-pressure environment and effectively manage competing priorities and complex family dynamics.
- Inclusive Practice: A deep commitment to anti-discriminatory, equitable, and anti-racist practice.
Practice Culture:
- Relational Approach: Practice is informed by trauma-aware principles and viewed through a systemic lens to ensure children remain at the heart of all work.
- Reflective Practice: You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, utilizing individual, group, and multi-agency supervision to continuously improve your practice.
- Professional Development: You will have ownership of your own practice development, translating training and research into frontline implementation.
Our Client's Commitment:
- Safeguarding: Cheshire West and Chester is committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- Diversity & Inclusion: We positively challenge inclusion measures and promote a culture of diversity and equity for all children and families.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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