Family Intervention Specialist

£27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year, £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

08/04/2026

Delivery of the option 2 model working intensively with families managing multiple high risk needs.

Following a whole family approach to deliver solution focused interventions that support families in meeting their individual goals for reducing risk of children being removed into local authority care.

To provide brief interventions to enable parents/carers to understand and deal with their substance misuse and its impact on their children and other family members.

Keep records of all work and produce weekly reports for case holding social workers and programme maintenance summary reports.

Completion of strengths charts and goal plans that are empowering for families meaning they need to engage family members of all ages.

Planning of your own diary to manage caseload and meet the needs of individual families and ensure that time frames are adhered to for end of interventions and report deadlines.

To represent the service at both internal and external partnership meetings and attend child protection reviews, sharing outcomes from intervention and being part of risk management action planning.

Ensure that all adult and children's safeguarding issues are dealt with in line with Staffordshire's safeguarding policies and organisation policies and procedures.

Ensure practice promotes equality and diversity within all areas of work.

To develop and maintain positive and constructive working relationships with local community and voluntary groups, statutory agencies, and other relevant stakeholders.

To ensure that children and young people and their families are fully involved in and consulted about the projects work and to support them in representing their views.

Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation which may affect service users and staff.

To provide a flexible service to families in line with their needs including evening and weekend work.

To lead on own specialist area which can include supervising students on placement, design and delivery of internal and external training or representing the service at key partnership meetings.

To support with the induction of new team members into the family and young peoples teams and across other Staffordshire teams if required.

Providing shadowing opportunities for internal and external colleagues to support learning and development.

To complete file audits and support management audits where required.

To always ensure professional conduct when representing the service within the community, supporting families, attending meetings and any other communication.

Systems and equipment

To contribute to the development of systems and interventions as and when required.

To familiarise and use I.T. equipment as provided by Inclusion and accurately record all required information.

To have skills for working on keyboards and using equipment remotely across a range of community hubs.

21. To make decisions based on effective communication and risk management.

22. To complete strengths‑based assessments and safety plans alongside families with complex needs and where risk to lone work can be a factor for consideration.

Safety planning can include exploring risky associates, access to weapons, drug dealing, domestic abuse, mental health, substance misuse, county lines, criminal and sexual exploitation, and behaviours placing children at significant risk of harm.

• To work within the family home facilitating the completion of whole family strengths‑based exercises.

This requires the experience to judge what information is and is not encouraged for sharing within this setting to ensure safety of children and vulnerable adults within the home.

The ability to analyse information from intervention sessions from which decisions are made to escalate safeguarding risk and to use this for feeding into core group decision‑making around the welfare of the child/ren.

An ability to make safe decisions under pressure when working remotely across the county.

To identify training needs and utilise…