Intensive Family Coordinator in Market Weighton

Service area: CYP Support and Safeguarding

Days of work: Monday – Friday with some evening and weekend work on a needs led basis.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner who works in a solution focused manner, has a can-do attitude, and has an ability to do work creatively to support children and families as part of our Intensive Family Support Service.

This is a hands-on role working intensively with a small group of families with diverse and multi-faceted needs. You will be a key part of the plan in place to make improvements to address key worries such as neglect, poor home conditions, and safety and wellbeing of children. You will work alongside social workers and other partners to provide a holistic support package.

You will work intensively in family homes and out in the community, visiting your families multiple times a week for extended visits to really get to know them and understand what works for them and their wider support network. You will provide practical support, modelling skills and walking alongside families to support them to make and sustain change, engaging their networks to promote enduring change.

Some of these families may have had a lot of service support in the past and as a service we are committed to effectively engaging families and supporting them to make and sustain change, through a family and child centred approach, which is focused on creativity, effective relationships and co-production. We love to identify and build on strengths within family systems to build resilience and skills, all the while empowering families towards a safe and positive future.

If you have experience of working with children and families in this way and you feel passionately about supporting children and families to make and sustain change then we would love to hear from you.

What we are looking for in an Intensive Family Coordinator:

• Be educated to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant area e.g. health and social care, social work etc.
• Have a current full driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Have experience of supporting families faced with complex challenges.
• Be tenacious and committed to providing excellent support to children and their families.
• Have experience of empowering families to build and sustain change through relational, strengths-based approaches.
• Have knowledge of how important a good support network is in achieving and sustaining positive changes in family functioning.
• Have a proven track-record of delivering high-quality, outcomes-focused support to children and their families.
• Be able to demonstrate that you are able to work flexibly and quickly adapt to fast changing circumstances.
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills, be able to demonstrate a high level of motivation and be able to work independently, within timescales and often balancing conflicting priorities.

Applications from those considering a career in children’s social work are also welcomed as this is a perfect opportunity to gain valuable, frontline experience of working with children, young people and their families in a varied, fast-paced environment alongside the children’s safeguarding team.

The interview will consist of a values exercise, questions and a role play which will explore your experience and suitability.

Our offer to you:

The intensive family support offer is a developing service within Children and Young Peoples Support and Safeguarding Services. Within our service we have three locality-based teams, each led by an experienced Team Manager. We are a diverse team, with a range of professional backgrounds, including but not limited to education, family support, social work, mental health, youth work and youth justice.

As a service we are on a journey of continued development and engage in formal and informal learning and development opportunities to enhance our knowledge and skills in evidence based and effective practice approaches. We are proud to share good practice and try new approaches and have carved out an excellent reputation for our service.

In addition to our service offer to you, as part of ERYC we also offer a range of staff benefits including flexible working as we know life outside work is just as important.

Our Stronger Together Model of Practice Framework:

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider model of practice framework, Signs of Safety, Social Pedagogy, Restorative Practice and Systemic Practice that connects practice much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

If you already work for the council and have previously used an Employee Self Service (ESS) account, to login to apply online, from September 2025 you will need to create a new account using your personal email address. If you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have sought approval from your line manager prior to submitting your application.

Travel: Some travel across East Riding of Yorkshire may be required, applicants must be able to transport themselves.

DBS/Medical check: This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check.