Family Intervention Worker - Duty & Assessment

We are looking to recruit a full time Family Intervention Worker to join our Safeguarding Hub on a permanent basis.

This is to assist the Safeguarding HUB in making positive contributions to transform the lives of the families we work with. You will work within a service focused on person-centred and strength based approaches committed to achieving Wellbeing outcomes that enable families to safely live together. The role will be a mix of office based and visiting/supporting the families of Newport.

You will be highly motivated, focused on providing high quality, timely and effective short term interventions to children "at risk" or "in need of care and support" in the community. You will be part of a highly supportive environment and have good access to training and development opportunities.

We are seeking inspirational and a dynamic family intervention worker who is able to make positive contributions to transform the lives of the families we work with.

Training for the role will be provided alongside regular supervision and an induction to work at Newport City Council. You must have good IT skills, be able to use a computer and have good literacy and professional social skills.

Newport is a great place to live and work being a geographically small City with a diverse population of which 35,000 are children and young people.

Newport is situated on the M4 corridor and is located between Bristol and Cardiff with excellent transport links further afield. The strengths of working and living in Newport are that it is a growing city that is developing at a fast rate whilst still providing opportunity to access affordable housing, good schools and excellent community resources. We are proud to have a stable workforce and dedicated staff of which all are permanent workers who experience a supportive and positive learning environment. Unique benefits are our effective Prevention and HUB services, the dedicated Mentoring and Consultation team, our partnership arrangement with Barnardo’s to deliver joint interventions to families as well as comparatively low, stable, caseloads, regular individual and group supervision and the opportunities for excellent career development and training opportunities.

In addition to generous annual leave, good pension scheme, comparative or higher pay than neighbouring authorities Newport City Council offers great benefits including:

- Vehicle allowances; Tax free bikes for work
- Working life balance - flexible employment;
- Career development
- Health and leisure (with discounts with various organisations to enable you to make choices about your health and lifestyle)
- Employee Support Service (Carefirst)
- Town centre offices with good transport links

Newport City Council is not currently supporting applicants with sponsorship for right to work. In applying for a vacancy, applicants should already have the right to work in the UK.

Newport City Council is committed to working towards its workforce being more representative of the population that we serve and particularly welcomes applications from people from minority ethnic communities represented (or living) in the city. Selection will be made on ability and skills to undertake the role.

Newport City Council is not currently supporting applicants with sponsorship for right to work. In applying for a vacancy, applicants should already have the right to work in the UK.

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