About this role
Job summary
This role isnot eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
The role centres on delivering intensive whole family interventions to reduce risks that may lead to children entering local authority care, including supporting parents around substance misuse, completing strengths based assessments, maintaining detailed records, and managing a complex caseload independently.
It involves working collaboratively with social workers, safeguarding partners, and community agencies, attending child protection meetings, and ensuring all practice aligns with safeguarding, equality, and organisational policies.
The post requires strong communication skills to share sensitive information, contribute to service development, and build constructive relationships with families and partners, while also maintaining up to date knowledge of relevant legislation.
Flexibility is essential, with work taking place in family homes across the county, sometimes during evenings or weekends, alongside regular travel, report writing, and participation in training, supervision, and audits. The role can be demanding due to exposure to challenging behaviours, fast paced workloads, and the need to make safe, informed decisions under pressure while maintaining professional conduct at all times
Main duties of the job
o To promote a strengths-based approach with families to empower change; build resilience and independence.o To work as part of a multi-agency team delivering interventions to safeguard children and vulnerable adults at risk.o To empower individuals to engage with support linked to individual need including where relevant, the local substance misuse team.o To provide information and advice to colleagues regarding the risk and protective factors surrounding families with multiple needs where children are subject to safeguarding plans and on the edge of care.
About us Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.A summary is below:
1. Delivery of the option 2 model working intensively with families managing multiple high risk needs.2. Following a whole family approach to deliver solution focused interventions that support families in meeting their individual goals for reducing risk of children being removed into local authority care.3. To provide brief interventions to enable parents/carers to understand and deal with their substance misuse and its impact on their children and other family members.4. Keep records of all work and produce weekly reports for case holding social workers and programme maintenance summary reports.5. Completion of strengths charts and goal plans that are empowering for families meaning they need to engage family members of all ages.6. Planning of your own diary to manage caseload and meet the needs of individual families and ensure that timeframes are adhered to for end of interventions and report deadlines.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to a degree level in Psychology, criminology or a relevant subject or equivalent experience. Willing and able to undertake the relevant training associated with the role.
Experience Essential
Equivalent experience gained through work in the field. Experience of working in safeguarding and drug and alcohol services.
Skills Essential
Must have a valid driving licence for the UK.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Inclusion
Address STaRS
10 Browning Street
Staffordshire
ST16 3AT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)