Intensive Family Support Worker

** It’s an exciting time to be joining Halton**

We are looking for 5 passionate, nurturing and tenacious professionals to join our Edge of Care Team, ‘supporting our children and families staying together’. This will involve you responding to our children and families experiencing acute distress with a primary focus of reducing the likelihood of our children and young people entering Local Authority care. You will work flexibly and swiftly with children, young people and their families / carers, and any relevant agency to ensure risks are mitigated and our children are kept safe.

This is a new service area, so you will be integral in developing this highly important role, within Halton, with the aim preventing children from entering into Local Authority care.

Do you have a passion to make a difference to the lives of children and families?

Key skills;

- Flexibility

- Resilience

- Influencing and negotiating

- Written and verbal communication

- Action planning

We have a strong vision for positive practice in Halton and we are currently embedding a relationship based practice model that has systemic practice at its core. We’re on a journey for excellence and we’ve made it our mission to ensure that children and young people get the best service from us, so they are able to thrive and achieve.

The Social Work Academy is integral in providing support, guidance and direction, with a focus on professional development. You will receive a bespoke training package, 1:1 support, team learning and reflective group / supervision sessions.

We have an experienced and established Senior Leadership Team, and your Service Manager and Head of Service are supportive and nurturing.

Our Executive Director and Director for Children’s Social Care are in full support of Halton being recognised as a Learning and Developing Authority, with a special emphasis on learning and career progression. 

We are committed to supporting our practitioners to achieve their aspirations too. Working with us, you will have real opportunities to progress your career through training and development. We also offer generous annual leave entitlement. 

We offer a generous annual leave allowance of 26 days, plus bank holidays (increasing after 5 years service, membership to local government pension scheme, flexible working, free parking, car allowance, car lease scheme, health and wellbeing initiatives and discount scheme. We are within easy commutable distance of Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside regions.

Halton is a thriving and vibrant Borough where people can learn and develop their skills; enjoy a good quality of life with good health; a high quality, modern urban environment; the opportunity for all to fulfil their potential; greater wealth and quality, sustained by a thriving business community; and safer, stronger and more attractive neighbourhoods.

Edge of Care Team posts are subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

For an informal discussion about these posts, please contact Jill Evans, Service Manager 0151 511 8047.

Please note that Halton Borough Council is unable to offer or support any form of UK VISA sponsorship

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk