Family Worker – Early Intervention Youth and Community Team

The Locality Early Intervention Teams generally aim to complete interventions with families within 12 weeks of the completion of the Early Help Assessment, identifying support and strengths within their family, friends and community networks to turn to when they face challenges, reducing the need for external professional involvement. 

The intervention is whole family-led, meaning that families are at the heart of decision making about themselves and the voice of family members and children is crucial in developing outcome focussed plans for the children. At all times our aim is to support families to help themselves be the best that they can now and into the future.

There are three Locality Early Intervention Teams providing an early intervention specialism and informed response within local community areas to build strong long-lasting relationships with community services so that children and their families will receive a timely local response to need reducing the likelihood of escalation to statutory children’s services or CAMHS.

Swindon is proud to be part of the Supporting Families Agenda. As a family worker you will be excited to learn that you will help our vulnerable families achieve outcomes which will change their life opportunities. You will achieve this through writing holistic family assessments and developing with the families, personalised plans. You will co-ordinate targeted support and will regularly review the plan with the families and partner agencies through the Team around the Family meetings.

Swindon is investing in our Early Intervention Services by recruiting further staff to join the team including: Senior Family Practitioner, Youth Engagement Worker and Family Workers, to work alongside families requiring intensive support. This is in line with the Swindon Plan to obtain to “build a fairer Swindon” through supporting our most vulnerable families to reduce disadvantage and increase access to community, partners and resources.

Your next role

To succeed in this role, you will need demonstrable experience of; working with and providing support to children, young people and their families. You will be creative and motivational, able to make positive relationships with families with a solution focused mindset. You will also need resilience, skills in risk management, the ability to manage your time well and the ability to prioritise your work.

You will need to be flexible with working hours that fit around the needs of the family, including some evening and weekend work.

An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this position.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.

Please see our new Swindon Plan.

Your next steps

Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion please contact one of our Early Intervention Coordinators; Sarah Hayes,on shayes@swindon.gov.uk or call (Mob: 07785768549)

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion.

If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk