Family Get Together Worker
Salary Grade 2 £22,557 FTE

Family Get Together Worker’s provide important opportunities for children of all ages not living with their families to spend time together.
This role presents a rewarding opportunity to work with a wide range of children from birth to 16 years, therefore good knowledge and understanding of child development and well-being is essential. You will be required to support and encourage the child/ren to spend positive time with their parents and significant others in a safe environment, or out in the community depending on the family’s needs. Your role will be to observe, offer support and guidance, using evidence based parenting strategies, modelling and encouraging play opportunities. Your recorded observations will inform the assessments and decision making of the social worker and can be used in the court arena. You will work with a multi -disciplinary approach with the common goal of ensuring Get together” time is in the best interest of the child/ren. You will work as part of a team of Family Get2gether Workers and as part of the wider children and family service. This role will require you to be flexible with your hours, responsive to the needs to the child/ren and their families, and to be able to drive to various locations and to transport some children to and from their get togethers.

We have vacancies based in the West, Mid and East areas of the county.

• For more information on the roles please contact Sue Little, Senior Specialist Family Contact Worker - Sue.Little@cornwall.gov.uk 07772 565 591 (West)
• For more information on the roles please contact Suzanne Sutcliffe, Senior Specialist Family Contact Worker – suzanne.sutcliffe@cornwall.gov.uk 07891 860597 (Mid)
• For more information on the roles please contact Maggie McMaster Senior Specialist Family Contact Worker - maggiemcmaster@cornwall.gov.uk 07974 579885 (East)

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role may have been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g., from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

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About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out about working and volunteering for us.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

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