Senior Family Support Worker (Intensive Support)
Lancashire County Council
Senior Family Support Worker (Intensive Support)
£38223
Lancashire County Council, Waterfoot, Rossendale
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 17 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 459bf7e906b641a0b637426af1955581
Full Job Description
- To strengthen the focus on outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, and their families by adopting a need's led approach.
- To adopt a warranted variation approach that is determined by the specific nature of demand within a locality.
- To support a joined-up approach across, Inclusion, Education and the CFW service by adopting a locality-based model.
- To align the CFW service offer with educational provision at a locality basis recognising that most children access childcare and go to school.
The service enables children, young people, and their families to access support as early as possible, to help them maintain their quality of life, prevent any problems getting worse and reduce the demand for specialist support services.
Intensive Support team's principal focus will be the delivery of 'Family Intensive Support' (FIS) taking a whole family-based casework approach to respond to complex needs. Post holders will carry a small (complex) caseload of families, alongside providing support and caseload supervision for a nominated group of 'Family Support Workers (FIS) They will be the principal line of management oversight, practice guidance and support for Family Partners delivering intensive support, assisting with smart action planning, and actively tracking teamcaseload progress
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
Other:
High functioning ICT and literacy skills are essential.
Additional Details: Evening and weekend working (Contractual)