Family  Assessment Worker (Parenting Assessment Team)

£25,419- £27,514 per annum

NJC Scale 6

37 hours per week

Permanent

Essential Car User allowance, free on-site parking.

We have a great opportunity for a full time Family Assessment Worker in the Parenting Assessment Team. This is a busy team, very experienced, highly supportive, friendly and enthusiastic about what they do. 

Within the role you will be undertaking bespoke parenting assessments and pre-birth assessments, sitting in a multi-disciplinary service. This team comprises of Family assessment workers, social workers, a counselling Psychologist and assistant Psychologist to ensure we are able to offer appropriate and holistic assessments.

Main accountabilities of the role: To assess parenting capacity for parents with children open to the child protection services as well as assess parenting capacity within pre-birth assessments, using the assessment framework.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of individuals and families, we’re adopting exciting new strengths-based approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement. And our people are at the heart of this progress: that’s why from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we make sure they have access to the best development opportunities. If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us.

Telford & Wrekin Council values social work careers and believes in providing good quality experiences to social workers. We are committed to both you and to developing the future social work workforce. We have a robust supervision policy which is geared towards achieving positive outcomes for you as a worker and for the children and families we work with. You will have regular, quality supervision with your line manager.

Telford and Wrekin Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

This post is covered by the Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.

For further information on the role please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.

Please note employees who are at risk will be considered first for this position.  Only if an appointment is not made will other candidates be considered.

We are committed to equality and diversity. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check.

Sorry but CVs will not be accepted.

For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin Children's Social Care, please view our recruitment page: https://www.telford.gov.uk/cscr

Please contact Laura Topping, Parenting Assessment & Contact Team Manager on 01952 385738 If you have any queries.

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