Family Intervention Worker

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS Organisation: Leicestershire County Council Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker Salary: £32,070 - £34,359 per annum Working Hours: 37 hrs per week Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: 30th November 2025 Interview Date(s): TBC About the Role Are you passionate about building relationships and keeping families together and preventing children from entering care then our team is looking for you to join us. Join our dynamic edge of care team, Families Together and make a real difference. You’ll work intensively with children, young people and families at risk of entering care, building strong relationships and supporting families to create safe, sustainable change. We are looking for a passionate, motivated and ambitious family intervention workers who are focused on working towards positive outcomes for the children and families we support. As a family intervention worker, you will co-work allocations of children and young people 11-18 this may be with social workers within our service or held in other areas of children and families. You will also support our 16/17 homelessness pathway alongside our amazing social workers. We work intensively which may involve multiple contacts with the family per week, as such we have a reduced caseload to reflect this. A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post. For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement. About You To apply for this post, you must: Experience and skilled at engaging children and families, identifying strengths within the family and wider network. Preferrable experience of delivering targeted interventions. Ability to provide clear and honest communication holding expectations for improvement and explain boundaries/consequences if changes are not achieved Committed to achieving positive outcomes for children and families, whilst understanding complexities such as mental health factors, neurodivergence, impact of domestic abuse, consideration of child/teenage development and exploitation. Is able to demonstrate the need for persistence, reliability, and flexibility, with the ability to respond quickly to changing needs Open and honest communication with families, being able to offer a High Challenge and High support approach whilst being respectful and empathetic utilising our signs of safety framework Capacity to work collaboratively with families and professionals to achieve shared goals Ability to develop and implement clear plans to sustain progress after service involvement ends Able to complete clear, concise and effective case recording, with use of systems involved. You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process. Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. Interested in Flexible Working? We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc. Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site. For more information or an informal discussion, please contact: Sianne Callaghan – Team Manager Email: Sianne.callaghan@leics.gov.uk About Us In Leicestershire we have a fantastic package to provide our workers. This includes the option as a full-time worker to do hybrid working, celebrating diversity with a range of events throughout the year, recognition of our staff in annual Pride in Practice events, fantastic learning and training opportunities - enabling our staff to develop and progress within their roles and committed wellbeing support. We are proud of our continuous improvement plan - 'Achieving Excellence through Purposeful Practice' which sets out our key values, behaviours and ambitions. We have embedded the Signs of Safety approach throughout our services and this approach mirrors our values of Aspiration, Being Curious and Collaboration. We are focused on working with families and the networks of family, friends and professionals around children, to work in collaboration to achieve shared goals. We are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department where we believe we are "stronger together". Our culture is one of partnership, where we look for solutions and recognise the potential impact of trauma on the children and families we work with and on our staff. We will strive to create a safe, compassionate, healing environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust, respect, hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a deliberate effort to know and understand people, and by providing hope for growth and recovery. We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and families. We want all our staff to be inspired to go the extra mile. We are doing our best to create the sort of culture where practice excellence can flourish. We want to learn from what works, as much, if not more, than from when things go badly – we are ambitious to create a true ‘learning organisation. So… Every year we run three annual conferences for staff to come together and reflect and learn. Every month each team sets aside time for team learning. You will receive consistent, regular, and reflective supervision You will receive group supervision support Our Practice Development Group is well established for practitioners to collaborate on practice development. We have a Critical Incident Response service for staff which provides independent therapeutic support within 48 hours if you experience a significant traumatic experience within work. We have a well-respected Wellbeing Service who provide specific support to staff when needed, but also offers events throughout the year. They also hold a weekly 1:1 focused session for children’s social care staff with a qualified therapist and we support our workers to use this service and seeing the strength in doing so. In all service areas you are expected to work closely with colleagues across team and agency boundaries to ensure that families get the most appropriate level of support. Staff workloads are manageable and are monitored and managed closely. Managers and staff all have regular monthly supervision, and you will be supported in your practice by an experienced senior management team. We are currently operating a hybrid model of working, which includes office working and working from home. You will be provided with equipment including a laptop and smart phone to enable you to complete your role. We utilise smarter and flexible working policies to support staff to fulfil their roles within flexible circumstances. For more about working in Leicestershire go to: https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/field/pdf/2017/11/9/working-at-leicestershire-county-council.pdf For further information about our services areas: https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/education-and-children/social-care-and-supporting-families By the way, here are a few more benefits of working in Leicestershire…. Well regarded employee counselling services Free car parking Cycle to work scheme Lease car scheme Option to purchase of additional leave Discounts at high-street stores and supermarket shopping Special offers on leisure activities and gym memberships Great Canteen for County Hall based workers (which is you!) How to Apply Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme. To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support. 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