Family Time Worker

We're recruiting a Family Time Worker to join our Children's Social Care service. You'll help children and young people spend safe, supported and meaningful time with their parents or carers. You'll remain with an assigned family throughout each session, observing their interactions and producing clear, factual records. You'll provide advice when needed and take appropriate action if you identify a concern about a child or young person's safety.

Your work will help families enjoy quality time together while ensuring that children's needs and wellbeing remain at the centre of every session. You'll need practical knowledge, skills and experience of direct family support work, including an understanding of the local authority's responsibilities towards children. This is a rewarding front-line role that involves working with families from a wide range of backgrounds and circumstances.

The role may involve working in different settings, including our Family Time Centres.

This is a Site-Based role, and you'll be expected to work from the designated workplace.

At Milton Keynes City Council, we aim to make a difference every day. We're dedicated, respectful and collaborative. We act as one council, and we work hard to create cleaner, safer and healthier communities while tackling inequalities and supporting people to thrive. Find out more about working with us here:

• Remain with your assigned family throughout each Family Time session and help children, young people, parents and carers feel supported.
• Observe family interactions and produce accurate, factual records of each session.
• Respond promptly to safeguarding concerns, follow agreed procedures and immediately report concerns to a senior colleague.
• Work with senior colleagues and other professionals so that informed decisions can be made about a child or young person's safety.
• Offer parents and carers appropriate advice and guidance to support positive interactions with their children.
• Review relevant information before each session, prepare suitable rooms and contribute to service development through feedback, team discussions and training.

• Practical knowledge, skills and demonstrable experience of direct family support work, normally developed through one to two years of relevant work experience and focused learning.
• Comfortable working with people from different backgrounds and able to adapt your approach to each family's circumstances.
• A calm and supportive communicator who can listen carefully, observe interactions and explain information clearly.
• Confident producing accurate written records and sharing important information with colleagues and other professionals.
• Collaborative in your approach, with the ability to work reliably as part of a wider team supporting children and families.
• Committed to safeguarding children and young people, following procedures and working in a dedicated, respectful and professional way.

Safer Recruitment applies to this role. This means that, before any appointment is confirmed, we'll carry out a range of pre-employment checks to help ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, young people and vulnerable adults. These checks may include identity verification, where candidates will be required to provide original identification documents, including a full birth certificate, employment history and reference checks, qualification checks and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, (unless you are currently registered with the DBS Update Service).

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In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years. In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
• Excellent pension - everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support.
• Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme - eligible…