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 support worker
There are a range of teams across the County who have skilled social care practitioners (Family Support Workers) doing direct work with children in need. Out Early Help teams offer Family Support drop in sessions and a comprehensive parenting training offer. We also have a team of family support workers offering support to children in care including life story work and supervising family time sessions
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.