The Service & Team:
The Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) is a specialist, multi-disciplinary service which supports disabled children, young people and their families whose main need for services arises from their disability or their intrinsic condition, where these conditions have a substantial or critical impact on the quality of the child’s/young person’s life or/and the lives of their families. The service intervenes where children’s needs cannot be fully met by universal services alone; it includes a statutory social care service that undertakes assessments that provides services at the acute and complex level of need, and services at Tier 2 through Early Support, Portage and Supporting Change in Partnership (SCIP).
The Role:
SCIP Workers are responsible for working with families to identify their priorities and be able to create a plan together; designing and delivering interventions and preventative strategies; providing families with information and guidance relating to services available locally; provide emotional and practical support as required; undertake assessments as required (Carer’s Assessment) and work towards agreed goals to improve outcomes for disabled children.
SCIP Workers will promote the consistent application of integrated processes between agencies as they affect disabled children and young people. This includes attending multi-agency meetings, such as Team Around the Child (TAC Meetings) or Education, Health & Care Plan reviews as required.
SCIP Workers provide families emotional and practical support, strategies and solutions to the challenges they may be facing.
SCIP Workers act as an advocate for disabled children and their families and will:
- Work with a family to enable them to identify their priorities and form a plan to address these needs together.
- Provide advice and support to families and practitioners on issues relating to the impact of disability and signposting to relevant services.
- Participate in team meetings; contribute to the Team Improvement Plan and Ofsted Inspections.
- Ensure that identified gaps in service delivery are reported.
- Work within relevant legal frameworks, such as, the Children & Families Act 2014; national guidance such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and national good practice, for instance national Early Support guidance.
To work within quality assurance guidance and produce monthly reports for the Quality Assurance Performance Management report.
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SCIP Workers are part of the Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) which is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team that supports disabled children, young people and their families.
SCIP Workers work under the direction of the Disabled Children’s Team Leads and hold case responsibility for undertaking direct work with disabled children aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers.
Working Pattern:
29.6 hours spread across four days a week.
What you’ll need to succeed:
A relevant level 3 qualification (e.g. NVQ3 Child Care Learning and Development).
Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families.
Experience of improving outcomes for disabled children and young people.
Ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands and to be able to form good relationships with fellow professionals and service users and be able to engender respect.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s 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
- A generous annual leave entitlement 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
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Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact :
Nathan Wilce
Disabled Children's Family Help Manager
Tel: 07837311551
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. 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.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact
[email protected] if 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.
