Blackpool Council
Location
Blackpool, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 2x37 hours per week
Salary: Grade F SCP 19-24 £29,777 - £33,024
Closing Date: 24th March 2024 at 23:59
An innovative and exciting career awaits you in Blackpool! Join a dynamic and diverse team of professionals.
Multiagency teams based on the Family Safeguarding approach is new for Blackpool. It is a holistic, supportive, and strengths-based approach that aims to keep families together.
We know parents and carers can face challenges that make day to day parenting even more difficult, so you will work alongside parents; champion their skills, strengths, motivate and support them to reach their goals.
You will be part of a brand new multi-disciplinary team where you will be supporting families, ensuring that they drive their own plans and are at the centre of everything we do. You will be bringing your expertise to the teams whilst gaining insights from other professionals from mental health, social care, education, housing, recovery and domestic abuse services
This is a hugely gratifying role that values you and ensures our families are safe and supported to live well together.
It is also a role where professional achievement and personal fulfilment go hand in hand because kindness, collaboration, and improvement is at its core. You will have access to a wide range of training, supervision and have a manageable number of families to support through their safeguarding journey. Enjoy workplace benefits and an ideal work-life balance in a backdrop of iconic attractions and beautiful beaches.
The Council operates an Introduce a Friend Scheme for a small number of agreed jobs in Children’s and Adults Services which encourages our Blackpool Council employees to initiate a successful introduction. This job is one of those roles, therefore if you have received a recommendation from a friend please ensure you select ‘Introduce a Friend’ when asked on the application where you heard about the vacancy.
Click here to view the Job Description.We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (
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£29.78k per annum
