Intensive Support Worker

Our Service

Our Intensive Prevention Service is part of Futures Matter, which supports children and families in Staffordshire.

• Intensive Prevention Service
• Youth Offending Service
• Saplings and Prevention
• Family Group Conference Service
• Breathing Space
• Child Exploitation Team

• Provide intense support to children on the edge of care to help them stay at home.
• Support Social Workers with reassessments of family members to progress family time with the aim of supporting children and young people to return home after being in our care.
• Support children to return home where there is an agreed plan of reunification.
• Take responsibility for supporting young people (8-18 years of age) and their parents to develop a tailored package of support, drawing upon other resources within the team as appropriate to remain or return home to their family.
• Maintain positive relationships, providing high support and high challenge to effect changes in family dynamics to promote stability at home.
• Work restoratively with families, offering an intense and robust package of support for young people and their families where there is a risk of family breakdown due to adverse childhood experiences, relationship difficulties or where exploitation is a significant risk.
• Take responsibility for the accurate recording of all work undertaken on the electronic file in keeping with the agreed time frames within the Intensive Prevention Service.
• Participate in all team meetings, training, the duty system and in developing the service.

• Have experience of working with children/young people and their families within their own homes.
• Have experience of delivering a variety of interventions/direct work to address presenting issues.
• Have a Level 3 NVQ in Childcare or an equivalent qualification relevant to working with children and their families.
• Have access to a car at all times where mileage and an essential car allowance is paid.
• Be able to work flexibly, which includes working weekends on a rota basis and in the evenings to support the children and families that you are working with, for which you will receive additional increments.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future. We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

• Salary £30,024 – £34,343 plus 2 additional increments for weekend working.
• Access to Our rewards and benefits – Careers at Staffordshire.