Intensive Support Worker

Intensive Support Worker
S01 +1 increment for weekend working (£34,314 - £38,626)
This role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to £963 per annum.
37 Hours, Full Time
Temporary, 1 year
Hybrid working / Central House / community based

Application Deadline: 12th May 2025 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 14th May 2025
Interview Date: 21st May 2025
Interview Type: In person

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.

In this important and varied role, the worker 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 holistic support to young people who may be at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation, Criminal Exploitation, Missing and NEET with multiple and complex needs, on the edge of care. 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 You

You will be a confident and creative thinker who is experienced with direct work with young people and families. You will have good knowledge around safeguarding policy and practice with excellent self-organisation skills. You will hold a full driving licence and relevant qualification to level 3 or above.

About Us

We have a strong team ethos with a number of established intensive support workers, two senior practitioners, and a team leader. We offer regular supervision on personal development and cases, peer supervision, team meetings, and training for all. We also have specialist workers within our team consisting of a Speech and Language therapist and a Clinical Psychologist who offer training, support, and consultation.

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.

If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Wendy Delag on wendy.delag@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

This post is also open as a 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 currently qualify.

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 to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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