About the Role Sutton’s Children & Young People’s Disability Service (CYPDS) has a part time fixed term post for a Specialist Support Worker following an increase in children accessing our short breaks service and the wider need to support families via specialist family support services. As a Specialist Support Worker, you will provide a range of support and interventions designed to meet family needs in a flexible and responsive way. Guided by the principles of Restorative Practices you will work in family homes and communities, completing direct work with children, young people and their families. You will explore & create bespoke Short Breaks support packages with children & their families, carry out clear transition work as you support young people Prepare into Adulthood. About Us The Children and Young People's Disability Service is comprised 5 Specialist Support Workers and 6 Social Workers overseen by a Service Manager, 2 Team Managers and a Lead Specialist Support Worker. In this environment you will be required to work as part of the team and autonomously, managing your own calendar in line with families needs. Within the team we support approximately 550 children and young people with varying needs to access the community and specialist disability provision. About You We welcome applications from individuals who have experience of whole family working, providing family support and direct work with children and young people. You will be skilled in undertaking Early Help Assessments, identifying needs and having a solution focused attitude, identifying key outcomes. Excellent communication and relationship building skills will enable you to provide advice and support to the multi-agency partnership to ensure families are supported. Experience of working with children with disabilities would be an advantage. Our culture of strong, accessible and supportive management will provide you with good regular supervision and the opportunity to take part in training. Our Offer To You As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team. In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.