Specialist Short Breaks & Family Support Worker

Specialist Short Breaks and Family Support Worker – Full-time (36 hours)
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join a specialist short break and family support service delivering excellent and innovative services to disabled children and their families in Enfield.
The team is part of Enfield’s Service for Disabled Children. In addition to social care, the Service includes education professionals and works closely with health service, local voluntary organisations, parents and children to ensure the highest quality service is provided.
You will be part of this multi-agency team delivering short breaks and family support services and must:

- have a proven ability to work with disabled children and young people who have complex needs in a professional setting.
- be able to provide advice and support to families in terms of practical care and offer support and guidance in the care and management of children with complex disabilities.
- be able to plan, deliver and review activity groups and play and leisure activities for disabled children and young people with complex needs.
- have strong verbal and written communication skills.

- have specialist skills to communicate with disabled children and young people.

- be able to build effective partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals to achieve positive outcomes for disabled children and young people.

- Have energy and enthusiasm and be able to work flexibly between the hours of 7am – 9 pm Monday – Friday, and alternate weekends between 8am – 5pm on a rota basis, at the Centre, in family homes and in the community.

You will be offered regular supervision and there are excellent training and professional development opportunities
The Short Breaks and Family Support Workers will need to demonstrate skills and knowledge in working with disabled children and their families and in their ability to organise short break activities including the supervision of staff
Contact Details -
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Clare Redrupp on 02081322125 for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Maria Evangelou at maria.evangelou@enfield.gov.uk.
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/
“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
- Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
- 1 month paid sabbatical for Children’s Social Workers

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.