We have a wide range of job roles ranging from those who work directly with children and families, to office-based roles supporting staff, developing policy or contributing to improving services. Each role is supporting some of the most vulnerable children and families and providing rewarding challenges for staff, for example:
- family support workers
- personal advisors
- quality assurance or improvement officers
- youth workers
- practitioners specialising in child exploitation
- youth justice practitioners
- Family Practitioners
Family Practitioner
Family Practitioner roles are available across many of our teams. This role entails completing statutory assessments to identify support needs for a family and act as the Lead practitioner for the family. Supporting them, co-ordinating and chairing child in need reviews and meetings.
Youth workers
Youth Workers - Targeted Youth Support (TYS) – Warwickshire County Council
Personal advisors
Working with our young people about to leave care, those that have left our care and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people. Our personal advisors support young people to transition into living independently.
Youth justice and specialist services roles
Our youth justice team and our Family and Adolescent Support Team (FAST) work closely together to support teenagers and their families who are on the edge of or have entered the criminal justice system. Working with young people subject to exploitation and victims of crime. Roles include missing children practitioners, youth justice practitioners, child exploitation workers as well as social workers.
This is just an example of the various roles who support children, young people and families in Warwickshire. Look out for our job adverts on WCC jobs.