Early Support Officer (Countywide)

Overview

The Early Support Service has a strong local and national reputation for ensuring children and families can access the right support at the right time through a robust stepped approach to services and support. We have a permanent, part time (30 hours per week over four days) Early Support Officer to join our service. The post is countywide and may require working across the five districts and boroughs, supporting Community Lead Professionals in response to service needs for allocated periods. The role also involves working as part of Family Connect (Warwick) as duty Early Support Officer responding to queries and escalation of needs on a rotational basis. The successful candidate will have a sound understanding of Warwickshire\\\’s Spectrum of Support to ensure needs of children are supported appropriately and information for referrals and support services is presented clearly. The post holder will coordinate Early Support, working closely with Children and Families teams and a range of stakeholders including statutory partners, service providers, the voluntary sector, children, young people and families. This is a time of embedding Families First teams to support young people in the County. Our approach is locality based, with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams that support the whole family and build strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

Essential experience / Responsibilities

• Educated to degree level (level 6) in a relevant field.
• Confident in the delivery of training to professionals.
• Model and develop restorative/relational approaches to growing partnerships and strong professional relationships.
• Develop targeted contacts to increase capacity and effectiveness of the Early Support network.
• Communicate and interact with children and families in a restorative manner as part of the Early Support process.
• Use Local Authority systems to monitor and record interventions and support for children and families.
• Identify services to support children and families and advise practitioners about putting a package of support in place, requiring wide knowledge of the range of services available in the area and their criteria, including administering internal referral systems.
• Excellent organisational skills to respond to the needs of the service.
• Analytical skills. The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
• Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make: Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. | Our people are at the heart of this vision; could you be one of them?
• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focused on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply. Your future matters to us; we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution typically around 19 percent per month, with a package of benefits for members and dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
• The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Annual leave and benefits

We offer agile working, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Safeguarding and additional information

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Additional notes

We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply. Your future matters to us; we provide a generous pension scheme and benefits for members and dependants.