Family Support Worker

Overview

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council believe that every family deserves the chance to flourish and thrive.

This is a fantastic role where you will be working directly with children, young people and their families.

You will be a crucial part of a network around a family, helping them to ensure their children are safe and reaching their potential. You will work alongside social work and multi‑agency colleagues and form positive relationships with children, young people and their important grown‑ups.

You will provide practical help at the earliest opportunity to enable families to make significant and sustained changes that will impact positively upon themselves and their children.

Responsibilities

You should have excellent verbal skills to build rapport and great written skills to ensure the child’s records reflect our involvement. You can work on your own and as part of a team.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave of up to 34 days per year
• Hybrid working where appropriate
• Flexible working hours where appropriate
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to our employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings
• A range of Staff Network groups

Click Here for more details: https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/benefits-and-rewards

Testimonials

• Very happy in Redcar & Cleveland and in every team, I have always had supportive managers.
• We are very lucky here in Redcar to have these opportunities.
• Excellent training and Practice Weeks, very helpful and informative.
• I am part of a supportive team and proud.
• Love the job and stay because of support.
• Both managers and service managers are approachable.
• Worked in a couple of Local Authorities ’s and feel welcome here and supported by the team.
• I am able to work condensed hours to support home/life balance.
• Love my job and want to progress and in Redcar and Cleveland.

Contact

If you would like an informal discussion about the role of Family Support Worker, please contact Lee Lilley at Lee.Lilley@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

Application

If you are ready to utilise your skills and expertise to empower families and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you. Apply today and be part of an inspiring journey. “Relationships First”.