Key Worker - Intensive

Leicestershire County Council

County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA
(Various locations across the County)

£36,621 - £40,458 per annum (pro rata for part time)

37 hours per week

Permanent

25th October 2026

TBC- face to face at County Hall

Targeted Family Help is expanding, and we are looking for additional Key workers to join teams across the county, including our Disabled Children's Team. These opportunities arise from service growth and the implementation of social work reforms.

We are seeking motivated, adaptable individuals who can build positive relationships with children, young people, and families, confidently navigate challenging conversations, and bring a proactive, solution-focused approach.

If you have experience providing direct support to children and families with complex needs, delivering evidence-based interventions, and managing conflict while de-escalating difficult situations, we would love to hear from you.

Join us at this exciting time of growth and transformation. If you have the passion, resilience, and commitment to help children, young people and families overcome challenges and achieve lasting positive change, we want to hear from you. Apply today and play a vital role in improving outcomes for families across Leicestershire.

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

• A Level 3 qualification in a relevant subject and/or experience of providing direct support in the home to children and families with complex needs which may include mental health, offending, substance misuse, domestic violence, and abuse, and/or educational issues
• Experience of identifying and delivering appropriate evidence-based interventions e.g. solution focussed brief therapy, the Freedom Programme, parenting programmes, brief intervention, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based approaches, motivational interviewing
• Knowledge and awareness of issues which may have an impact on the lives of families such as domestic violence and abuse, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, poverty, housing
• Understanding of, and compliance with, information sharing protocols and confidentiality
• Awareness and understanding of 'good enough parenting' and relationship between poverty and social deprivation and to be able to hold a compassionate position but still hold protection of children as the priority. Be able to recognise 'cumulative harm' and risk indicators of different forms of harm - sexual, physical, emotional and neglect.
• Ability to work proactively, persistently, and persuasively with families who may not be willing to engage with services, using a range of techniques that encourage active participation
• Ability to build professional confidence and resilience, good working relationships with families, ability to over-come barriers to them engaging, recognising reasons for resistance to change, where tensions can exist. Ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with children and adults, focusing on hearing and capturing the child's voice.

Possession of a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle and relevant insurances. However, a reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability.

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