Description

The starting salary for this role is £16,794 per annum, based on a 21.6 hour working week (pro rata to £27,991 FTE).

Do you feel passionate about ensuring that families experiencing domestic abuse receive the support they need in a timely way? Are you looking for an opportunity to gain experience of working within a multi professional environment?

We currently have a part time vacancy for the role of Family Support Worker – MARAC- based in the East of the County on a 12-month fixed term contract, working three days per week – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

MARAC is a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference and is a meeting where information is shared on the highest risk domestic abuse cases between representatives of local police, health, child protection, housing practitioners, Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs), probation and other specialists from the statutory and voluntary sectors

We are looking for individuals who have an awareness of domestic abuse and how it can impact on victims and their children and who want to ensure that they receive timely support. You will be working to support social workers in the early help, assessment team and Family Support teams to ensure that information regarding children open to them is recorded in a timely way on the MARAC database to ensure that informed discussions can be had at the MARAC meetings and that the multi-agency group can identify actions which will help to safeguard the victim and their children.

Key tasks of this role will be:

• Review the information of the children that are being discussed at MARAC by reviewing the records on LCS and liaising with allocated Social Workers
• Update the information on the MARAC recording system – MODUS
• Attend the MARAC meeting and share the information gathered at the meeting
• Record the action plan after the meeting on Surrey Children Services recording system
• Follow up with the social work team that actions have been completed
• Update the outcome of action on MODUS.

Surrey Children’s Service provides training to ensure competence and professional development. We will ensure that you receive a full induction and monthly supervision.

Team members are enthusiastic and supportive, committed to the provision of a quality service for children and their carers. We are looking for people with similar qualities to join us to continue the good work already being done. Effective interpersonal and written and oral communication skills are vital.

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values we follow.

For more information please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application. We also invite you to read our Life at Surrey handbook to see insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council.

Additional Information

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 7 January 2022.

Interviews will take place on 14 January 2022.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract.

An enhanced DBS ‘Disclosure and Barring Service’ check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children’s and Adults’ Barred List checks will be required for this role.

Contact Details

For an informal discussion please contact Catherine Watkins, South East Assessment Service Manager, at [email protected] or Sonia Knight, Domestic Abuse Programme Manager, at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer of first choice reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all under represented groups.

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