Senior Family Support Worker (Neighbourhood Support)

| Salary £33,945 - £38,223 Per Annum | Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week | Hyndburn & Ribble Valley |

Pay Award Pending

International Sponsorship  – this role is  not  open to international sponsorship 

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Team, for a Full Time Permanent Neighbourhood Senior Family Support Worker. 

Post holders will undertake direct service delivery (individual caseload, direct work/group based programme delivery) within a focussed area of the early help service offer, but will work co-operatively and across delivery themes to ensure that service users receive a seamless service. They will also have responsibilities for delivery planning and providing frontline supervision to lower graded delivery staff to enable them to deliver early help services meeting well defined, short term deliverables. Post holders will be able to use judgment to deal with daily unforeseen problems with limited guidance, within established procedures, and making practical operational decisions within closely defined policies and procedural guidance.

Neighbourhood Support ; Principle focus will be to oversee (group based) delivery programmes, family time provision and partnership working arrangements at one or more neighbourhood centres in their area, supporting and supervising (group based supervision) a range of frontline delivery staff (neighbourhood group workers, family time workers, delivery centre support workers) involved in those delivery programmes. They will engage and liaise with key contacts in social care to ensure that directed/court requirements for supervised contact with families are effectively discharged and family time contact is appropriately allocated to worker and overseen to ensure that any required recording and/or reporting of contact is facilitated for the benefit of social work reports to the courts.

Specific to Neighbourhood Support:

Substantial experience of planning group and individual based curriculum programmes to meet identified early help needs which lead to improving outcomes for children, young people and families

Skills in managing complex public facing service delivery environments with multi-agency co location of service delivery 

Strong understanding of the wider determinants of public health inequality and evidence based practice methods for achieving successful public health outcomes

 Strong innovative and creative skills in relation to developing curriculum programme responses to meet new and emerging needs for children, young people and families

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab. 

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.