Intensive Support Worker - Futures Matter

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

• Intensive Prevention Service
• Youth Offending Service
• 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 the reassessments of family members to progress family time and to support children and young people to return home after being in our care, including where there is an agreed plan of reunification.
• Our approach is solution‑focused, relational and draws upon strength‑based methods of interventions to meet each family’s specific needs.

We partner with social work teams, family support teams, and other professionals, including those in the third sector. Our team is based in Stafford but works across Staffordshire and sometimes beyond.

• Support young people (8‑18 years of age) and their parents in developing a tailored package of support, drawing upon other resources within the team as appropriate to enable children and young people remain or return home to their family.
• Maintain positive relationships, providing high support and high challenge to effect changes in family dynamics and promote stability at home.
• Work restoratively with families, offering an intense and robust package of support where there is a risk of family breakdown as a result of 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, of which you will receive additional increments.

Interviews will be held at the week commencing 10th August or 17th August 2026 at Staffordshire Place 1.

For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact Kirste or

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and a Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.