Grade 8, £28,594 to £31,364 per annum pro-rata (actual salary, £23,184.32 to £25,430.27)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 30 per week
The Resilience Around the Family Team (RAFT) are looking to recruit 1 x 30hr Family Worker to provide intensive interventions to families to support children to remain safely at home wherever possible.
The successful applicant will plan interventions in conjunction with the social worker and children and their parents/ carers that will support families to make positive changes and enrich their family life together. This may include parenting advice and guidance, mediation and family agreements and child-focused work. The RAFT team is a multidisciplinary team that offers a range of specialist areas of support for families and works in a strengths-based way to improve outcomes for them.
Ofsted have rated us as a GOOD children's social care following our 2023 inspection.
Ofsted found that:
“When there are worries about the safety of a child, decisions are made quickly so that children are protected.”
“The resilience around the family team (RAFT) works intensively with children and families to enable children to remain with their families or as part of focused intervention identified within child protection plans. The team is successful in strengthening parenting capacity, helping to reduce risk and support children to remain living safely at home”.
We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your interest in coming to work with us as part of the team.