Strengthening Families Assistant
- Employer
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Location
- Civic Offices, Wellington, Telford
- Salary
- £19312 to £19698 pro rata ( £10.01 - £10.21 per hour)
- Closing date
- 10 Mar 2021
- Reference
- TWC000004647
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Social care
- Contract Type
- Part time temporary
- Working Pattern
- Flexible hours
- Hours
- Part-Time
Job Details
Strengthening Families Assistant
1 x 34 hour post covering Maternity leave
Scale 3 - £19,312 to £19,698 pro rata ( £10.01 - £10.21 per hour)
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 Wrekin locality, for a Strengthening Families Assistant.
The locality consists of Family Practitioners, Family Assistants, Adult Practitioners and Adult Social Workers who work closely together.
The post will be working in the community delivering universal groups and carrying a caseload of home based family support work with vulnerable Children and Families requiring Local Authority support and Intervention.
As a Strengthening Families Assistant 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.
As per Job Description.
As per Job Description.
For further information please speak to Helen Rumbles or Christine Thursfield on 01952 385577.
Interviews will be held on 23rd and 24th March 2021.
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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
- Website
- http://www.telford.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01952 380000
- Location
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Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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