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Strengthening Families Practitioner

Employer
Telford & Wrekin Council
Location
Woodlands Children & Family Centre, Ironbridge Road, Madeley TF7 5HX
Salary
24982 - 27041 per annum pro rata
Closing date
2 Dec 2021
Reference
TWC000005211

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Sector
Local Councils
Job Type
Social care
Contract Type
Part time permanent
Working Pattern
Flexible hours
Hours
Part-Time

Job Details

1 x Strengthening Families Practitioner - Lakeside South Locality
25 Hours per week
Grade 6 - £24,982 - £27,041 per annum pro rata
Permanent

The primary purpose of the service is to reduce demand on statutory higher tier more expensive services such as social care by targeting support to our most complex families.  This supportive, targeted work with children and families will help prevent family breakdown, whilst strengthening early help working arrangements to ensure individuals are supported to get the “Right Help at the Right Time, enabling families to live active healthy independent lifestyles by utilising their own networks and community assets.

Telford & Wrekin Council is committed to providing children and young people, the most vulnerable families and adults in need of specific care and support, the best services we can.

An opportunity has arisen in the Lakeside South Locality, for a Strengthening Families Practitioner.

The locality consists of strengthening families’ practitioners and strengthening families’ assistants.

The post will be working in the community delivering targeted groups and carrying a caseload of home based family support work with complex Children and Families requiring Local Authority support and Intervention.

As a Strengthening Families Practitioner you will deliver a “Strengthening Families” whole family working approach across an all age service. Ensuring multi agency Integrated working practices are at the heart of everything we do

Please see Job Description

Interview will take place on the 10 December 2021.

If you require any further information about this role please contact

Sarah Hall – Strengthening Families Team Leader on 01952 387183

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Job Description

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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.

At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. 

Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve. 

In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result. 

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here

You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here

If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk

Company info
Website
Telephone
01952 380000
Location
Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom

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