Family Help Worker – CMB2577e
Salary: £34,434 to £35,412 per annum
Hours: 37 Hours per week
Location: Various Locations, including Carlisle and Workington
Contract: Permanent
About this opportunity
As a Family Help Worker, you will thrive in a fast-paced and rewarding role where you support children and empower families to achieve positive outcomes. You will work closely with partner agencies, undertake assessments and lead plans that help children reach their full potential.
You will build strong and trusting relationships with families, carry out child-centred assessments, and deliver evidence-based interventions, parenting support, and child development programmes. Working across homes, schools, and community settings, you will ensure the voices of children and young people are central to all planning.
If you are passionate about supporting families, enjoy collaborative working, and want to help children and young people achieve better outcomes, this is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact.
These roles are available on a permanent basis
Why join us?
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for individuals who embody our organisation's core values: ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, and innovative. We believe in the power of these values to drive positive change, deliver excellent public services and shape a better future for our communities. We’re looking for individuals from a wide range of backgrounds including from health, education, substance misuse, mental health and child exploitation services.
We’re also about potential over perfection and we can help you grow in the role and thrive in your career.
Be sure to take a look at the post specification (below) for the essential criteria for this role.
Contact
For more information about the role or to arrange an informal chat prior to your application, please contact Emily Payne emily.payne@cumberland.gov.uk or Sarah Briggs sarah.briggs@cumberland.gov.uk
DBS Checks
This role requires a DBS check. The level of check for this role is:
Enhanced DBS check with a Children’s/Adults Barred List check.
Please note this role involves working in regulated activity with adults and Children. It is an offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults and Children.
Guaranteed Interviews
We offer a guaranteed interview to the following applicants as long as your application can demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
If you meet one or more of the criteria above, and wish to be considered for this scheme, select 'yes' to the appropriate question during your application. Find out more.
Diversity, Inclusion & Adjustments
We’re dedicated to enhancing the diversity of our workforce and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. That’s why we’re a proud Disability Confident Leader and also an Age Friendly Employer – to provide opportunities for everyone to thrive.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please let either the hiring manager or our Resourcing Team know by emailing Resourcing@Cumberland.gov.uk. While adjustments aren’t always guaranteed, we’ll always listen and we’ll try our best to accommodate your needs.
Application and Interview information
If you experience any difficulties logging in to apply for this role, please contact the HR Systems team at HR.Systems@cumbria.gov.uk.
Please note this role may close early subject to demand. If you’re interested in applying, you should apply well before the advised closing date. We cannot accept applications once the role has closed.
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