Intensive Support Worker
Intensive Support Worker
SO1 (£32,076 - £36,648 +1 increment)
37 Hours, Full Time
Temporary (24 months)
Hybrid: Stockport Civic Complex and homeworking
Application Deadline: 18th April 2024
Shortlisting Date: 22nd April 2024
Interview Date: 1st May 2024
Interview Type: Face to Face
Your Role
Working in partnership with the young person's Social Worker, the Intensive Support Worker offers direct work interventions to young people and their families who are at risk of family breakdown. The workers are responsible for establishing, maintaining, and developing professional relationships with young people through targeted and tailored interventions. We seek to ensure, when safe to do so, these young people remain in their home.
Young people tell us they need consistent and timely support where they are actively listened to, and are part of the decision making process. In this role you will be an integral part of ensuring we actively promote young people's engagement in how they wish to be supported.
About You
In this important and varied role, you will need to be creative and adopt a persistent and consistent approach to engaging our most vulnerable young people and their families.
You will provide tailored support to young people who may be at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation, Criminal Exploitation, Missing and NEET with multiple and complex needs or on the edge of care. You will have relevant experience with young people, and will be a confident and creative thinker who is experienced in direct work. You will have good knowledge around safeguarding policy and practice with excellent self-organisation skills. Day to day you will deliver targeted interventions, assess needs, and deliver young people's focused plans of support. You will work with our partners across various settings; home, school, education providers, and community.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
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If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Wendy Delag at wendy.delag@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
This post is also open as secondment opportunity for Stockport Council Employees, however, you must seek the permission of your current manager prior to making an application.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://greater.jobs/content/13405/greater-manchester-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
Intensive Support Worker
Location: Stopford House