Family Intervention Worker - Family Placement Team

Family Intervention Worker – Family Placement Team

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Salary: Grade 7 – £32,061 £35,412

Contractual hours: 37

Basis: Fixed Term

Job category/type: Social Care

Job reference: REQAA6652

Family Intervention Worker – Family Placement Team

Are you passionate about supporting Foster carers and their families? We are looking for people who want to assist us in growing our fostering team within Pembrokeshire. You will help us in recruiting, and supporting foster carers to provide stable and caring homes for children and young people. We provide a supportive working structure across all of our social care teams, ensuring you have all you need to perform to the best of your abilities, whilst doing a job you love. Supporting this team would provide opportunities to contribute directly to the work and for personal development.

Successful applicants will have five GCSEs Grade C or equivalent and have previous experience of working with children and families. An NVQ3 or above in Social Care or equivalent would be favourable. Please refer to the job description for more details on this vacancy and the person specification.

The social worker assistants will add additional capacity to our existing family placement team to provide capacity to deliver support and assessment services and help us deliver the transformation of the service. Within Pembrokeshire we have secured a commitment for a two year pilot to increase fostering fees and allowances and to exempt our foster carers from council tax for two years. These incentives put us in a position to actively market and recruit foster carers within our county. We need to improve our ability to respond quickly to enquiries whilst ensuring all our current carers feel supported and cared for. These posts will provide us with additional recruitment capacity within the team and approve applications in a timely way. Additional capacity with the grade 7 workers will support the day to day activity of the team. In Pembrokeshire, we have also successfully run the first step up step down pilot in collaboration with the fostering network and have secured funding to continue this innovative program. This demonstrates the ambition of fostering services in Pembrokeshire to challenge and transform what care and placement outside the family home can look like. Additional capacity within the service will enable us to upscale the project and prevent children from coming into care. The model of step up step down provides an ethical model that we wish to champion in Pembrokeshire where carers understand and come alongside parents to collaboratively ensure that children are not isolated from their families. Additional capacity within the service will better enable to support the development of the model and ensure roll out of best practice.

• Pembrokeshire has seen a consistent and sustained increase in the numbers of children looked after. There has been an increase in the numbers of primary aged children that have required out of county placements. This has a tremendous adverse impact on family revocation and access to education. By increasing our inhouse provision both in quality and quantity we aim to keep children close to home with access to the right support at the right time.
• We are actively engaged in a program of returning children to Pembrokeshire where it is safe to do so and by increasing our foster carer population we will be able to enable a stepdown from residential provision as well as offering good quality local services.
• During the next three years if this post is successful we would expect to see more young people cared for within Pembrokeshire and remaining within our in house fostering provision.
• In Pembrokeshire, we are working closely with our regional colleagues to deliver fostering services and to share good practice.
• During the last year we have strengthened our close partnership working with partner agencies through our development work with commissioning and partner organisations. This year we held a foster carer conference to highlight the services of partner agencies that we collaborate with and to highlight the team around the foster carer. This was well attended and provided opportunities for us to link with National Parks, Neurodiversity charities and to showcase voluntary agencies in the area. This collaborative working supports joint advertising and mutual support of services on offer. We hope to deliver this type of partnership event annually and develop the collaborative delivery of services.
• This appointment will enable us to add capacity and continue on our journey of transformation and will strengthen the opportunities to recruit and support family placement services in West Wales.

Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification.

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Please note that at this point, Pembrokeshire County Council is not accepting applicants who require a Skilled Worker visa as a prerequisite to a right to work in the UK. Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy.

Safeguarding
Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Councils Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.

This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone’s business whether they work for, or on behalf of, the Council.

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• Please contact the HR Systems Team as early as possible if you\’re unable to apply online by emailing .
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• Local Government Employees on National Joint Council (NJC) terms are subject to national pay bargaining; all salaries currently stated in our adverts are as 01/04/2025.
• Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.

Welsh language skills are desirable. Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.

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Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.