Positive Support Worker (Temp)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Support Worker to join the Positive Support Team. This role will involve working directly alongside the Multi Agency Rapid Response Service CAMHS Functional Family Therapists and other Social Care and Health teams. You will contribute to the delivery of an integrated model of care to support children young people and families where young people experience mental health and social care crisis across Cornwall working together to reduce crisis presentations admissions to hospital and children entering the care system.

As a Positive Support Worker you will provide intensive support to parents and children who are experiencing mental health and social care difficulties and will work closely with social care workers family therapists CAMHS practitioners and Mental Health workers to provide this support in a creative and integrated way.

The Service & Team:

Positive Support Workers make a real difference to the lives of children and their families in Cornwall. We believe that the children of Cornwall deserve the very best. We put their needs at the heart of everything we do and we are looking for people who share our determination to improve their lives and make a brighter future. Across our teams we have a range of skilled professionals including Family Workers Targeted Youth Workers Psychologists and Functional Family Therapists working alongside our social care staff.

As part of our commitment to outstanding practice we have put in place a pathway for our positive support workers to develop their knowledge and skills to deliver the most effective work and multi-disciplinary interventions with children and families.

Cornwall is one of the best places in the country to live work and bring up a family. We are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff and we recognise that they need a good work/life balance as well as supportive leadership and support in the workplace. Cornwalls location and landscape offers unique opportunities for a healthier happier way of life.

The Role:

As part of Gweres Tus Yowynk Cornwalls Specialist Adolescent Team (incorporating CIoS Youth Justice Service) you will be part of an established and experienced team. This is an opportunity to take a central role in the Positive Support Team achieving better outcomes for children and families in crisis.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to anenhancedcriminal record disclosure check.

What youll need to succeed:

You will need to be a committed team member with substantial experience in work with children and families including lived experience. You will be able to evidence how you have applied your learning to your practice and have a track record of practice that improves the lives of is preferential for you to have significant experience of evidence-based practice with children and families and the expertise and approach to effectively support families as part of a multi-disciplinary a team committed to partnership working we welcome candidates with lived experience utilising mental health services either as individuals or relating to a child or family member

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.

Additional Information:

The full role profile is attached here

About Us

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• 26 days annual leave per year (pro-rata) rising to 29 days after five years continuous service with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here -flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for order to best serve our communities we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds cultures and identities; e.g. race disability sex gender age religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Application Process

A supporting statement or CV can be attached to your application. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contactif you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.